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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.
First, We are never to depart from the literal sense of the words, without an evident necessity, but the plain undoubted sense is, That God would forgive our sins;1 for our Saviour minding brevity in this Prayer, no doubt would speak his sense in the most perspicuous and clear manner that can be. As therefore if Christ had said, Make us to be assured of the pardon of sin. The Antinomian would not have gone from the letter, but pressed us to that: So on the other side, when Christ saith, Forgive us, and not Give us the sense of forgiveness, we have cause to cleave fully to that: and this may be illustrated by two further considerations, the former of those places where God is said not to forgive, the later of those where forgiveness is applied of one man unto another. When the Prophet Isaiah speaking of the Israelites, how their Land was full of Idols, and both great and mean ⟨p. 198⟩men did humble themselves before them, Isa. 2.9. prayeth, that therefore God would not forgive them. Can any one make the meaning to be, that God would not give them the assurance of their forgiveness?
First, We are never to depart from the literall sense of the words, without an evident necessity, but the plain undoubted sense is, That God would forgive our sins;1 for our Saviour minding brevity in this Prayer, no doubt would speak his sense in the most perspicuous and clear manner that can be. As therefore if Christ had said, Make us to be assured of the pardon of sin. The Antinomian would not have gone from the letter, but pressed us to that: So on the other side, when Christ saith, Forgive us, and not Give us the sense of forgivenes, we have cause to cleave fully to that: and this may be illustrated by two further considerations, the former of those places where God is said not to forgive, the later of those where forgiveness is applied of one man unto another. When the Prophet Isaiah speaking of the Israelites, how their Land was full of Idols, and both great and mean ⟨p. 198⟩men did humble themselves before them,