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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.
1A second Reason, Why God though he pardon, may yet deny the manifestation of it, is, Because hereby God would make us feel the bitterness and gall of it in our own hearts. A Pardon easily obtained takes off the burden of the fault. Thus God dealt with David, The light of Gods favour doth not presently break through the Cloud, that so David may feel how bitter a thing it is to sin against God. As God suffered Isaac to be bound, to have wood laid on him, the knife to be lifted up to strike him, in all which space, Isaac's fear could not but heighten: Thus God also will kill and wound those, whom he intends to make alive: he will bruise them and break them, that so they may judge the seeming good in sin, to be nothing to the real evil that followeth it.
1A second Reason, Why God though he pardon, may yet deny the manifestation of it, is, Because hereby God would make us feel the bitternesse and gall of it in our own hearts. A Pardon easily obtained takes off the burden of the fault. Thus God dealt with David, The light of Gods favour doth not presently break thorow the Cloud, that so David may feel how bitter a thing it is to sinne against God. As God suffered Isaac to be bound, to have wood laid on him, the knife to be lifted up to strike him, in all which space, Isaac's fear could not but heighten: Thus God also will kill and wound those, whom he intends to make alive: he will bruise them and break them, that so they may judge the seeming good in sin, to be nothing to the real evil that followeth it.
- 1Reas. 2.
1And from this second, issueth a third Reason, viz. To make us more watchful and diligent against the time to come: Peters bitterness of soul, was a special preservative against the like temptations; as bitter Potions kill the worms in children's stomachs. It must needs argue much guilt in Gods people, if after the particular gall and wormwood they have found in sin, they shall be ready to drink the like bitter potion, when sin presents it self. Certainly the heart-aches that Paul found afterwards, though pardoned, for his former persecutions, were like a flaming sword to keep him off from such attempts again; He might more truly say, then that Heathen did, He would not buy repentance so dear.