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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.
1. God is said therefore to cover sin from his eyes, because he will not take notice of it in justified persons to punish it with wrath and condemnation, although it be not so covered, as that God doth not see it to be angry with it, and chastise believers for it. yet it is so covered, as that he doth not see it to condemn believers for it. We do not therefore make God to cover sin (as an Antinomian saith we do) as if a man should cover a thing with a net, where the object is still seen, Honey comb, pag 57. but as to Gods hatred and revengeful condemnation, so it is wholly covered; and therefore those expressions of taking away, blotting out of sin, &c. do fully imply, that God ⟨p. 216⟩giveth not an half pardon, but that he taketh away the offence, and whatsoever punishment (properly so called) belongs unto it.
1. God is said therefore to cover sinne from his eyes, because he will not take notice of it in justified persons to punish it with wrath and condemnation, although it be not so covered, as that God doth not see it to be angry with it, and chastise beleevers for it. yet it is so covered, as that he doth not see it to condemn beleevers for it. We do not therefore make God to cover sinne (as an Antinomian saith we do) as if a man should cover a thing with a net, where the object is still seen, Honey comb, pag 57. but as to Gods hatred and revengefull condemnation, so it is wholly covered; and therefore those expressions of taking away, blotting out of sinne, &c. do fully imply, that God ⟨p. 216⟩giveth not an half pardon, but that he taketh away the offence, and whatsoever punishment (properly so called) belongs unto it.
2. It doth imply, That God when he hath thus forgiven, deals with a man as no more in that particular a sinner. Therefore David after his murder and adultery are washed away, he is as white as snow in respect of those actual sins; and every true believer repenting, is bound to believe, that God doth this graciously and gloriously to him, That he is no more in Gods account that loathsome leper and unclean person he was.