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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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16. As there must necessarily be more sorrow, and will be greater terrors from the Lord, so there is also required greater and stronger act• of faith, whereby pardon may be applied; For the agony and temptation being greater, the strength of faith also must proportionably be increased. Hence we see the incestuous person, was almost overwhelmed; so great a matter was it to exercise faith, when God was apprehended thus angry: and certainly, if faith be a grace so difficultly put forth even for the least sin; What conflicts must there needs be, when nothing but mountains are in the way, and great gulfs apprehended between pardon and him? The mariner doth need more skill and strength in a tempest, then in a calm; and the soldier must show more courage in the midst of a furious battle, then when all things are quiet.
16. As there must necessarily be more sorrow, and will be greater terrors from the Lord, so there is also required greater and stronger act• of faith, whereby pardon may be applied; For the agony and temptation being greater, the strength of faith also must proportionably be encreased. Hence we see the incestuous person, was almost overwhelmed; so great a matter was it to exercise faith, when God was apprehended thus angry: and certainly, if faith be a grace so difficultly put forth even for the least sin; What conflicts must there needs be, when nothing but mountains are in the way, and great gulfs apprehended between pardon and him? The mariner doth need more skill and strength in a tempest, then in a calm; and the souldier must shew more courage in the midst of a furious battell, then when all things are quiet.
- 16 Gross sins require a more intense act of faith to apply pardon.6 Grosse sins require a more intense act of faith to apply pardon.