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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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Sixthly, He had lost all that boldness and liberty arising from a good Conscience, in declaring Gods truth, and reclaiming transgressors from their evil ways, vers▪ 13. Some have said that David in this interval lost the gift of Prophecy, and making of Psalms. I cannot tell that; but certainly guilt and shame had so sealed up his mouth, that he could not reprove others for murder, adulteries, destructive craft, which he himself was so foully guilty of. It was the Ancients Rule, Quicquid dictur•s aliis, prius tibi ipsi dic, Speak that first to thy self, which thou art to speak to others. But how could David have any boldness here, till there was a coal of fire from the Altar to sanctify him? So that all these things duly pondered, you may say, this Sermon is a spiritual-Anatomy-Lecture, wherein Davids sin and punishment hath been so dissected before you, that every wise hearer may prevent the like desperate disease in himself.
Sixthly, He had lost all that boldnesse and liberty arising from a good Conscience, in declaring Gods truth, and reclaiming transgressours from their evil wayes, vers▪ 13. Some have said that David in this intervall lost the gift of Prophecie, and making of Psalms. I cannot tell that; but certainly guilt and shame had so sealed up his mouth, that he could not reprove others for murder, adulteries, destructive craft, which he himself was so foully guilty of. It was the Ancients Rule, Quicquid dictur•s aliis, prius tibi ipsi dic, Speak that first to thy self, which thou art to speak to others. But how could David have any boldness here, till there was a cole of fire from the Altar to sanctifie him? So that all these things duely pondered, you may say, this Sermon is a spiritual-Anatomy-Lecture, wherein Davids sin and punishment hath been so dissected before you, that every wise hearer may prevent the like desperate disease in himself.
1And now I proceed to the Thesis, or this Doctrine in the general. And this method I shall use: First, Speak of the sins