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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.
1In the first place this Argument might easily be laid aside, for the Apostle doth not speak here of election, antecedentèr, antecedently ⟨p. 185⟩to his other graces, which flow from that in time, but executivè, as it is executed and completed in those that are elected. Therefore by the elect he meaneth those elect that believe, that are holy, that are conformable to the image of God, that do love him, as the context showeth; for otherwise we know Paul himself laid much to the charge of the Ephesians, though elect, when before their conversion, he said they were children of wrath as well as others; and therefore by that adamantine chain, Whom he hath predestinated he hath called, whom he hath called he hath justified, whom he hath justified he hath glorified, it is plain, he takes election terminativè (as they say) in the effects of it, even till it hath obtained the utmost terminus, which is everlasting glory.
1In the first place this Argument might easily be laid aside, for the Apostle doth not speak here of election, antecedentèr, antecedently ⟨p. 185⟩to his other graces, which flow from that in time, but executivè, as it is executed and compleated in those that are elected. Therefore by the elect he meaneth those elect that believe, that are holy, that are conformable to the image of God, that do love him, as the context sheweth; for otherwise we know Paul himself laid much to the charge of the Ephesians, though elect, when before their conversion, he said they were children of wrath as well as others; and therefore by that adamantine chain, Whom he hath predestinated he hath called, whom he hath called he hath justified, whom he hath justified he hath gl•rified, it is plain, he takes election terminativè (as they say) in the effects of it, even till it hath obtained the utmost terminus, which is everlasting glory.
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