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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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Lay therefore this foundation, That every sin is mortal, in respect of its desert and guilt, howsoever to the godly believing and repenting, no sin is mortal, but all venial, Rom. 8.1. There is no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus. Therefore Musculus observes well, That in this case, the persons offending are to be considered (whether they be believers) more then the sins themselves.
A second Proposition.
Howsoever every sin, even the least, doth thus deserve eternal damnation, yet there is a great difference between some sins and others. And therefore sin is not a mere negation, but a privation, as diseases are, and so as one disease may be more desperate then another, so may one sin be more heinous then another. The Stoics thought all sins alike. And Cyprian among the Ancients, is reported by the Learned to have been of that mind. But Scripture doth evidently confute this, He that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin, John 16.11. So you have the phrase, no be worse then an Infidel, 1 Tim. 5.8. Thus Ezek. 16.47. Israel is said to be more corrupted, and to do more abomination then Sodom. For although to sin be to miss the mark, yet some may shoot far wider from it, then others, one sin therefore may be more heinous then another, divers ways, as Divines show: As
Howsoever every sin, even the least, doth thus deserve eternal damnation, yet there is a great difference between some sins and others. And therefore sin is not a meer negation, but a privation, as diseases are, and so as one disease may be more desperate then another, so may one sin be more hainous then another. The Stoicks thought all sins alike. And Cyprian among the Ancients, is reported by the Learned to have been of that minde. But Scripture doth evidently confute this, He that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin,