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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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The answer is, because God is a free Agent, and so his will is not a necessary cause of the thing, for then it would be immediately, as the Sun beams are necessarily as soon as the Sun is, but it is a voluntary principle, and so maketh the effect to be at the time he prescribeth. As if there ⟨p. 166⟩were an Artificer or Carpenter, that could by his mere wi• cause an house to be reared up; he might will this to be done in such and such a year long after his will of it to be: So God when the world is made, when a sinner is justified, willed these things from all eternity, and when they come to have a being, these effects cause an extrinsical denomination to be attributed to God, which was not before, as now he is a Creator, and was not before, now he justifieth, and did not before. There is no change made in God, but the alteration is in the creature. But of this more in its time.1 Let us come to give the differences between an immanent action, and a transient, and then we may easily see, which of these two Justification or Remission of sin is.
The answer is, because God is a free Agent, and so his will is not a necessary cause of the thing, for then it would be immediately, as the Sun beams are necessarily as soon as the Sun is, but it is a voluntary principle, and so maketh the effect to be at the time he prescribeth. As if there ⟨p. 166⟩were an Artificer or Carpenter, that could by his meer wi• cause an house to be reared up; he might will this to be done in such and such a year long after his will of it to be: So God when the world is made, when a sinner is justified, willed these things from all eternity, and when they come to have a being, these effects cause an extrinsecal denomination to be attributed to God, which was not before, as now he is a Creator, and was not before, now he justifieth, and did not before. There is no change made in God, but the alteration is in the creature. But of this more in its time.1 Let us come to give the differences between an immanent action, and a transient, and then we may easily see, which of these two Justification or Remission of sinne is.