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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.
5. If Justification do antecede our Faith, 1so that Faith doth only declare our pardon of sin, then any other grace may be said to justify as well as Faith. For take any other grace, repentance, humility, joy, these are all the fruits of Gods Spirit, and so demonstrate his election of us, his justification of us. But how unanswerably do the Orthodox prove, a peculiar instrumental virtue in faith for pardon, which others have not? The Apostle expresseth it, [Greek or Hebrew], through faith in his blood, not love of his blood; and indeed the Apostle maintaineth that Gospel-position against false teachers, viz. That we are justified by Faith, not by works. The Question was not, Whether the works of the Law did justify us declaratively only, but causally. So then by this Doctrine, Faith must no more be called the hand, or the eating and drinking of Christs body and blood, but only made a sign of such mercies.
5. If Justification do antecede our Faith, 1so that Faith doth only declare our pardon of sin, then any other grace may be said to justifie as well as Faith. For take any other grace, repentance, humility, joy, these are all the fruits of Gods Spirit, and so demonstrate his election of us, his justification of us. But how unanswerably do the Orthodox prove, a peculiar instrumental vertue in faith for pardon, which others have not? The Apostle expresseth it, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, through faith in his bloud, not love of his bloud; and indeed the Apostle maintaineth that Gospel-position against false teachers, viz. That we are justified by Faith, not by works. The Question was not, Whether the works of the Law did justifie us declaratively only, but causally. So then by this Doctrine, Faith must no more be called the hand, or the eating and drinking of Christs body and bloud, but only made a sign of such mercies.
- 1Arg. 5.