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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.
Those only are justified that are called, But none are called or converted from all Eternity, Therefore none are justified from all Eternity.
The major is grounded upon the method and order which the Apostle observeth, beginning with the highest round in that chain, which is Predestination, and ending in the lowest, which is Glorification: so that it cannot rationally be thought that the Apostle did not intend an exact order, and method in those expressions.
3. If so be a man (because he is elected) be justified from all Eternity, then it will also follow he is glorified from all Eternity. 1And so Hymenaeus •nd Philetus may be excused in this sense, if they say, The resurrection is past already. It is true, the Apostle useth words signifying time past, Whom he hath predestinated, he hath called, &c. But that is either to show the certainty and infallible connection of these benefits together; or else, because Predestination being necessarily for the time past, he would not alter the current of his expression for the following mercies.
3. If so be a man (because he is elected) be justified from all Eternity, then it will also follow he is glorified from all Eternity. 1And so Hymenaeus •nd Philetus may be excused in this sense, if they say, The resurrection is past already. It is true, the Apostle useth words signifying time past, Whom he hath predestinated, he hath called, &c. But that is either to shew the certainty and infallible connection of these benefits together; or else, because Predestination being necessarily for the time past, he would not alter the current of his expression for the following mercies.