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,…

Neither fourthly, may we conceive of sin covered, in a carnal gross manner, As if there were something interposed between Gods eyes and sin; as if a mans face were covered with an hat, or a candle put under a bushel. The Antinomians similitude is gross and carnal, Honey-comb, pag. 275. as a man looking through a red glass, seeth the water all red within it, so God looking upon us in Christ, seeth nothing but the righteousness of Christ, and no sin at all; for the reason why our senses judge water red through a red glass, is, because it depends upon the fitness of a medium, and that being indisposed, the eye is deceived; but God in looking upon us, doth not depend upon any intervening thing; and indeed Gods seeing of sin in this point, is not so much an act of his understanding, as of his will, decreeing to punish sin, or not to punish it▪ So that this similitude doth no ways hold, for God in this matter of forgiving or punishing sin, is not to be looked upon as a natural agent, but voluntary. So that all these things rightly understood, we may take that ⟨p. 218⟩which is good and comfortable, leaving that which is corrupt and false.

Neither fourthly, may we conceive of sin covered, in a carnall grosse manner, As if there were something interposed between Gods eyes and sinne; as if a mans face were covered with an hat, or a candle put under a bushell. The Antinomians similitude is grosse and carnall, Honey-comb, pag. 275. as a man looking thorow a red glasse, seeth the water all red within it, so God looking upon us in Christ, seeth nothing but the righteousnesse of Christ, and no sin at all; for the reason why our senses judge water red thorow a red glasse, is, because it depends upon the fitnesse of a medium, and that being indisposed, the eye is deceived; but God in looking upon us, doth not depend upon any intervening thing; and indeed Gods seeing of sin in this point, is not so much an act of his understanding, as of his will, decreeing to punish sin, or not to punish it▪ So that this similitude doth no waies hold, for God in this matter of forgiving or punishing sinne, is not to be looked upon as a natural agent, but voluntary. So that all these things rightly understood, we may take that ⟨p. 218⟩which is good and comfortable, leaving that which is corrupt and false.