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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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1. We must not confound those things, which may be consequent, or concomitant to justification, 1with justification it self, for many ⟨p. 15⟩things may necessarily be together, and yet one not be the other; so Justification is necessarily joined with Renovation, yet a man is not justified in having a new nature put into him: The water hath both moistness and coldness in it, yet it doth not wash away spots as it is cold, but as it is moist. We will not enter into dispute (as some of the Schoolmen have, and concluded affirmatively) Whether God may not accept of a sinner to eternal life, without any inward change of that mans heart: It is enough that by Scripture we know he doth not.
1. We must not confound those things, which may be consequent, or concomitant to justification, 1with justification it self, for many ⟨p. 15⟩things may necessarily be together, and yet one not be the other; so Justification is necessarily joyned with Renovation, yet a man is not justified in having a new nature put into him: The water hath both moistness and coldness in it, yet it doth not wash away spots as it is cold, but as it is moist. We will not enter into dispute (as some of the Schoolmen have, and concluded affirmatively) Whether God may not accept of a sinner to eternall life, without any inward change of that mans heart: It is enough that by Scripture we know he doth not.
- 1I. Caution.
2. To place our justification in any thing that is ours, or we do, 1