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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, If sins be pardoned thus before committed and repented §6of, then it would be in vain to pray for forgiveness of sin, seeing it is already past. This Argument (as before was said) Gomarus urged against Piscator, explaining that Petition [Forgive us our sins] for the sense and assurance of it only in our hearts. It is true, we may pray for a thing that is past, thus far, for the continuance of it, but not for the thing it self. Although there can hardly be an instance in all Scripture given of such a Petition. We do not read of any prayer in Scripture that God ⟨p. 252⟩would elect us, and predestinate us, yet that might admit of the same interpretation which they give for pardon of sin, viz. To make us more assured and persuaded of it in our own hearts. Hence when God speaks of pardon of sins, he useth many times the future tense, Jer. 31. I will forgive their iniquities, which if pardoned before, would be very difficult to say; even as hard, as if God should say, I will predestinate and elect such men. It is indeed often said, That when we pray for pardon of sin, we pray for the sense and feeling of it; but let such that interpret so, give any parallel place for such a sense, yet we deny not (as before hath been said) but reductively this may be included in that Petition.
Sixtly, If sins be pardoned thus before committed and repented §6of, then it would be in vain to pray for forgiveness of sin, seeing it is already past. This Argument (as before was said) Gomarus urged against Piscator, explaining that Petition [Forgive us our sins] for the sense and assurance of it only in our hearts. It is true, we may pray for a thing that is past, thus far, for the continuance of it, but not for the thing it self. Although there can hardly be an instance in all Scripture given of such a Petition. We do not reade of any prayer in Scripture that God ⟨p. 252⟩would elect us, and predestinate us, yet that might admit of the same interpretation which they give for pardon of sin, viz. To make us more assured and perswaded of it in our own hearts. Hence when God speaks of pardon of sins, he useth many times the future tense,