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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Seventhly, If a mans future sins be already pardoned in a justified man, then in a reprobate man, all his future sins are actually condemned. The consequence is firm upon that rule, Eadem est ratio contrariorum, there is the same reason of contraries. Therefore if a mans future sins be pardoned before they be committed, then a reprobate mans sins shall be punished before they be. Now how contrary is this to Gods dispensation revealed in the Scripture? Where can we find any one man punished for a future sin? Were not all the sins men are afflicted for in Gods Word, because they had done them, not because they were to do them? Indeed the Scripture, Matth. 5. sometimes makes the desires and lusts of the soul after sin, to be the sin it self, but that is because they are the proxime and immediate cause of such a sin; but we are now speaking of future sins, that it may be as yet have no preparation at all for them in any cause.
Seventhly, If a mans future sins be already pardoned in a justified man, then in a reprobate man, all his future sins are actually condemned. The consequence is firm upon that rule, Eadem est ratio contrariorum, there is the same reason of contraries. Therefore if a mans future sins be pardoned before they be committed, then a reprobate mans sins shall be punished before they be. Now how contrary is this to Gods dispensation revealed in the Scripture? Where can we finde any one man punished for a future sin? Were not all the sins men are afflicted for in Gods Word, because they had done them, not because they were to do them? Indeed the Scripture, Matth. 5. sometimes makes the desires and lusts of the soul after sin, to be the sin it self, but that is because they are the proxime and immediate cause of such a sin; but we are now speaking of future sins, that it may be as yet have no preparation at all for them in any cause.
Eighthly, By what principles the Opponents can prove▪ That God pardons sins future, by the same we can prove, it is because of repentance future. So that still no sin will be forgiven without repentance. For suppose that were a true rule to stand upon, Gods internal will to pardon is an immanent act, and therefore from all eternity, will it not as well follow, Gods internal will to give repentance, is an immanent act, and therefore repentance is from all eternity. If another be a true rule, That God hath given us all pardon from eternity, only we have the sense of it, and manifestation in our own souls; may