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The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errors of Papists, Arminians,…The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errours of Papists, Arminians,…
The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errors of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially Antinomians in XXX lectures preached at Lawrence-Jury, London / by Anthony Burgess ...The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errours of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially Antinomians in XXX lectures preached at Lawrence-Iury, London / by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by A. Miller for Tho. Underhill, 1651
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12. Our repentance is infirm and weak needing another repentance. Lava, Domine, lachrymas meas, saith he, O Lord, wash my tears. That is only true of Christs blood, which Ambrose spake ⟨p. 161⟩in commendations of water, Quae lavas ownia, nec lavaris, which washest all things, and art not washed thy self. So that repentance cannot be the remedy to lean upon, for alas that needeth another remedy, which is the blood of Christ. If therefore when asked, How dost thou hope to have thy sins pardoned? thou answer, because thou repentest and humblest thy self for thy sins. It will be further demanded, But how doest thou hope to have thy sins of thy repentance taken away? Here all must necessarily be resolved into the blood of Christ: Take heed then after sin, of trusting in thy own sorrow. It is a most subtle sin, unless a man be much acquainted with the Gospel-way, and his own self-emptiness, its impossible but that he should look upon his repentance, as that which maketh God amends.
12. Our repentance is infirm and weak needing another repentance. Lava, Domine, lachrymas meas, saith he, O Lord, wash my tears. That is only true of Christs bloud, which Ambrose spake ⟨p. 161⟩in commendations of water, Quae lavas ownia, nec lavaris, which washest all things, and art not washed thy self. So that repentance cannot be the remedy to lean upon, for alas that needeth another remedy, which is the bloud of Christ. If therefore when asked, How dost thou hope to have thy sins pardoned? thou answer, because thou repentest and humblest thy self for thy sins. It will be further demanded, But how doest thou hope to have thy sins of thy repentance taken away? Here all must necessarily be resolved into the bloud of Christ: Take heed then after sin, of trusting in thy own sorrow. It is a most subtil sinne, unlesse a man be much acquainted with the Gospel-way, and his own self-emptinesse, its impossible but that he should look upon his repentance, as that which maketh God amends.
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