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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.
Tenthly, Consider, the Scripture speaks of this justification, as to us, 1still in a passive sense, we are justified, and that whether it speaks upon a supposition of Justification by works of the Law, or in an Evangelical manner, and this it doth to show that God only doth justify: for sin is only against him, and therefore none but himself can remit his own offence. Besides, none can condemn but God, therefore none can Justify. Who can lay trouble on thy soul, bind thee in chains, and throw thee into hell, but God? and who but God can command all the tempests and waves in thy troubled soul to be still? When therefore others are said to Justify, that is only to be understood declaratively, and no more. Now this particular may suppress all those proud, Pharisaical thoughts in us, whereby we are apt to be puffed up within our selves: what if we Justify our selves, and clear our ways? yet if God doth not, we remain still obnoxious, and bound in Gods wrath.
Tenthly, Consider, the Scripture speaks of this justification, as to us, 1still in a passive sense, we are justified, and that whether it speaks upon a supposition of Justification by works of the Law, or in an Evangelicall manner, and this it doth to shew that God only doth justifie: for sin is only against him, and therefore none but himself can remit his own offence. Besides, none can condemn but God, therefore none can Justifie. Who can lay trouble on thy soul, binde thee in chains, and throw thee into hell, but God? and who but God can command all the tempests and waves in thy troubled soul to be still? When therefore others are said to Justifie, that is only to be understood declaratively, and no more. Now this particular may suppress all those proud, Pharisaicall thoughts in us, whereby we are apt to be puffed up within our selves: what if we Justifie our selves, and clear our waies? yet if God doth not, we remain still obnoxious, and bound in Gods wrath.
- 110 The Scripture speaks of justification as to us in a passive sense.