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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
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His last Argument is from the unchangeableness of Gods love, If we are not justified in his sight before we believe, 1then God did once hate us, and afterwards love us. And if this be so, why should Arminians be blamed, for saying, We may be the children of God to day, and the children of the devil to morrow? Hence he concludes it, as undoubted, That God loved us first, before we believe, even when we were in our blood.
His last Argument is from the unchangeableness of Gods love, If we are not justified in his sight before we believe, 1then God did once hate us, and afterwards love us. And if this be so, why should Arminians be blamed, for saying, We may be the children of God to day, and the children of the devil to morrow? Hence he concludes it, as undoubted, That God loved us first, before we believe, even when we were in our bloud.
- 1Arg. ult.
In answering of this Argument, several things are considerable,
First, It must be readily granted, That God is unchangeable,1 Jam. 1.17. God is there compared to the Sun, and is therefore called, the Father of Lights, but yet is preferred before it, because that hath Clouds sometimes cast over it, and sometimes is in eclipse, but there is change, or shadow of change with him. The Heathens have confessed this, and so argued, If God should change, it would be either for better or worse; for worse, how could it be imagined? for better, then God were not absolutely perfect. Most accursed therefore must Vorstius his blasphemy be, who purposely pleads for mutability in God.