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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.
It doth imply, That God by degrees and in his due time will cover the believers sins, as from his own eyes, so from the believers eyes. So that the guilt of conscience, those arrows of the Almighty, shall not always stick in his heart. Thus as mans love to another, covers a multitude of sins, he will not mention, charge or upbraid the party with them; so doth Gods love cover the multitude of believers sins committed by them, dealing with them as reconciled persons, not upbraiding of them but bestowing all encouraging mercies upon them; so that if we improve this phrase of covering sin no further, we shall split on no rock, and yet he soul have as much comfort as it can rationally desire.
It doth imply, That God by degrees and in his due time will cover the beleevers sins, as from his own eyes, so from the beleevers eyes. So that the guilt of conscience, those arrows of the Almighty, shall not alwaies stick in his heart. Thus as mans love to another, covers a multitude of sinnes, he will not mention, charge or upbraid the party with them; so doth Gods love cover the multitude of beleevers sins committed by them, dealing with them as reconciled persons, not upbraiding of them but bestowing all encouraging mercies upon them; so that if we improve this phrase of covering sin no further, we shall split on no rock, and yett he soul have as much comfort as it can rationally desire.
1In the next place, hear what it doth not reach to, and wherein the phrase is abused: As
- 1Some particulars not extended to in this phrase of covering sin.
1. When we dream of such covering of sin, as that sin is wholly taken away; so that no relics of original corruption abide in us. Thus the Papists, We must not (say they) suppose such a covering as if sin were still there, only God will not impute it, but it is such a covering as is a blotting sin out. Now for actual sin, we grant covering to be a blotting it out; but for original sin, in the lusts thereof, We say, they are still in the godly, and properly sins, only covered, because not imputed to them: for the grace of regeneration, though it cut the hair of sin, as Delilah did Samsons, yet it groweth again, as long as the root is there.