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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 first and proper difference is this, An immanent action is that which abides in God, so that it works no real effect without: As when God doth merely know or understand a thing; but a transient action, is when a positive change is made thereby in a creature, as in Creation, &c. So that we may conclude of all Gods actions, which do relate to believers, only predestination is an immanent act of God, and all the rest, Justification, Regeneration, Glorification, are transient acts: for Predestination though it be an act of God choosing such an one to happiness, yet it doth not work any real change or positive effect in a man, unless we understand it virtually, for it is the cause of all those transient actions that are wrought in time. Howsoever therefore Justification be called by some an immanent action, and so made to go before Faith and Repentance *as if Faith were only a declaration and sign of pardon of sin from all eternity, yet that cannot be made good, as is to be showed.
1The first and proper difference is this, An immanent action is that which abides in God, so that it works no reall effect without: As when God doth meerly know or understand a thing; but a transient action, is when a positive change is made thereby in a creature, as in Creation, &c. So that we may conclude of all Gods actions, which do relate to believers, only predestination is an immanent act of God, and all the rest, Justification, Regeneration, Glorification, are transient acts: for Predestination though it be an act of God choosing such an one to happinesse, yet it doth not work any reall change or positive effect in a man, unlesse we understand it virtually, for it is the cause of all those transient actions that are wrought in time. Howsoever therefore Justification be called by some an immanent action, and so made to go before Faith and Repentance *as if Faith were onely a declaration and signe of pardon of sinne from all eternity, yet that cannot be made good, as is to be shewed.
- 11. An immanent action produceth no outward effect.