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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.
LUKE 7.47. Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins which are many are forgiven her, for she loved much.
This Text is part of a famous history, which may well be called [Greek or Hebrew], because of the three great things observable in it; 1. Great sins. 2. Great repentance and humiliation. •. Great love and grace of God through Christ in pardoning: And there is this one peculiar thing well observed about this woman in the history, that whereas divers others addressed themselves to Christ for corporal mercies, this only cometh for spiritual, even for remission of her sins.
THis Text is part of a famous history, which may well be called 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, because of the three great things observable in it; 1. Great sinnes. 2. Great repentance and humiliation. •. Great love and grace of God through Christ in pardoning: And there is this one peculiar thing well observed about this woman in the history, that whereas divers others addressed themselves to Christ for corporal mercies, this only cometh for spiritual, even for remission of her sins.
1For the better understanding of the text, let us briefly consider the history; and first the woman is described by her quality inherent, a sinner, not in a common sense as all are, but in a more notorious manner; and therefore those that mitigate her fault, out of some reverence or honour to her, do not so much increase her honour (as Maldonat upon the place well observeth) as detract from Christs honour: for the Physicians skill is most commended, where the disease is more desperate. That she was a known great sinner, appeareth, in that the Pharisee wondered at Christ, because he would have any commerce with her. Whether this woman was Mary, Lazarus his sister or no, is hotly disputed by Commentators, but impertinent to my scope. In the next place you have her great repentance expressed, wherein for the general you may see the Apostles duty accomplished, as she had given her members to be members of iniquity, so now of righteousness, insomuch that she is the true looking-glass of an humble convert. Her humiliation is described: 1. In bringing of a box of ointment to anoint his feet; not his head (say some) because she thought her self so