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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.
It must therefore be a very poisonous Doctrine, to say, That God is as well pleased with a man before his conversion, as after.
2. If the Scriptures limit this privilege of Justification and pardon only to those subjects that are so and so qualified, 1then till they be thus furnished, they cannot enjoy those privileges. The places are many which testify this, Act. 3.19. Repent, that your sins may be blotted out. Therefore their sins stood uncancelled, as so many Debts in Gods register Book, till they did repent, Act. 26.18. To turn them from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins. Therefore they had it not, while under the power of darkness, 1 Joh. 1.9. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, which supposeth, That God doth forgive our sins only, when we confess and forsake them, Matth. 6.15. If ye forgive not, neither will my heavenly Father forgive you. It is in vain to number up more places, for these do necessarily prove sin is not forgiven, till Faith and Repentance. They do not indeed argue a causality or merit, yet they infer a necessary presence in those that obtain pardon, and do hold by the same proportion, as those places which require Sanctification before Glorification.
2. If the Scriptures limit this priviledge of Justification and pardon only to those subjects that are so and so qualified, 1then till they be thus furnished, they cannot enjoy those priviledges. The places are many which testifie this,