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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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5. Because of this guilt and demerit of sin, it is, that our Divines §5do say, That if such an one, David (for example) should die before these sins be repented of, he would be damned; For if you suppose a justified person to persevere always in gross and vile sins without reformation, you may as well suppose him to be damned. Hence there is, as some observe, a two-fold impossibility, There is an impossibility that David elected and justified should be damned; There is also an impossibility, that David a murderer and an adulterer should without Repentance be saved; but God by his powerful grace will untie this knot by a certain and infallible recovery out of his sins, for that is a perpetual and sure rule, Election hath obtained, Rom. 11. otherwise, speak of David as in that state before Repentance, we may say, if he had died in it, he would have been damned. Thus Beza, Twiss, &c. Yet Gods grace which was so potent at the first to raise out of the grave of sin how much rather if life be in us, will it quicken us to turn unto God?
5. Because of this guilt and demerit of sin, it is, that our Divines §5do say, That if such an one, David (for example) should die before these sins be repented of, he would be damned; For if you suppose a justified person to persevere alwayes in gross and vile sins without reformation, you may as well suppose him to be damned. Hence there is, as some observe, a two-fold impossibility, There is an impossibility that David elected and justified should be damned; There is also an impossibility, that David a murderer and an adulterer should without Repentance be saved; but God by his powerful grace will untie this knot by a certain and infallible recovery out of his sins, for that is a perpetual and sure rule, Election hath obtained, Rom. 11. otherwise, speak of David as in that state before Repentance, we may say, if he had died in it, he would have been damned. Thus Beza, Twiss, &c. Yet Gods grace which was so potent at the first to raise out of the grave of sin how much rather if life be in us, will it quicken us to turn unto God?