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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1The last Objection is, Why should there be such pressing of mourning and repenting for sin, and that because it is such an offence to God. For seeing God is all-sufficient and happy enough in himself, our sins do not hurt him, or make him miserable, no more then our graces add to his happiness, but as he is above our graces, so he is also above our sins: seeing therefore God is incapable of any injury from man, why should sin be such an offence?
1The last Objection is, Why should there be such pressing of mourning and repenting for sin, and that because it is such an offence to God. For seeing God is all-sufficient and happy enough in himself, our sins do not hurt him, or make him miserable, no more then our graces adde to his happinesse, but as he is above our graces, so he is also above our sins: seeing therefore God is incapable of any injury from man, why should sin be such an offence?
- 1Object. 3. What harm to God in sin.
1The Answer is easy, If you consider the internal Attributes of God, as Justice, Wisdom, Glory and Happiness: So God can have no loss or injury, for he is always the same happy and immutable glorious God: but if you do consider the ••••nall ⟨p. 163⟩good things that are due to him from men, as Honour, Praise, Reverence, &c. These may be taken away from God by the perverse wills and lives of men, and so God have less of this eternal Honour and Glory then he hath. And although this external Honour and Reverence do not make to the internal Happiness of God, yet he is pleased with this, and commands it of men, and threatens to punish where it is denied him: and certainly we may not think the Scripture doth aggravate sine under this title, as an injury to him, as that which offends him, and is disobedience unto him, if so be there were not some Reality. Besides the Necessity of Christs death by way of satisfaction, doth necessarily argue, That sin is a real offence and dishonour to him. And lastly, a sinner as much as lieth in him, depriveth God of all his inward happiness and glory; insomuch that if it were possible God would be made less happy by our sins. It is no thanks to a sinner that he is not, but it ariseth from his infinite Perfection that he cannot.