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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.
1And lastly, In all sin there is an aversion from God; either Habitual, in Habitual sins; or Actual, in Actual: and in this aversion from God, the soul abideth, till it be turned to him again; as a man that turneth his back on the Sun, continueth so, till he turn himself again: now Conversion, and not Justification, doth rectify this;2 so that by this you may see, what it is to have a sin forgiven, not the foulness or the disformity of it to Gods Law removed, nor yet the dignity and desert of Gods wrath; no, nor all kind of anger from God, but the actual ordination of it to condemnation.
1And lastly, In all sin there is an aversion from God; either Habitual, in Habitual sins; or Actual, in Actual: and in this aversion from God, the soul abideth, till it be turned to him again; as a man that turneth his back on the Sun, continueth so, till he turn himself again: now Conversion, and not Justification, doth rectifie this;2 so that by this you may see, what it is to have a sin forgiven, not the foulnes or the disformity of it to Gods Law removed, nor yet the dignity and desert of Gods wrath; no, nor all kinde of anger from God, but the actual ordination of it to condemnation.
- 16. An aversion, from God.
- 2What it is to have sin forgiven.
14. There is a great difference between original sin, and actuals; for that of original is much more perplexed in the matter of remission, then those of actuals; when an actual sin is committed, the act is transient, that is, quickly passed away, there remaineth only the guilt, which sticketh, till God by pardon doth remove it, and then when he hath forgiven it, there is all of that sin past. But now in original sin it is otherwise; for that corruption adhering to us, cleaving to our nature, like Ivy to the tree (as the Father expresseth it) though it be forgiven, yet it still continueth, and that not only as an exercise of our faith and prayers, or by way of a penal languor upon us, but truly and formally a sin, so that its both a sin, and the cause of sin, and the effect of sin at the same time. Now in this particular lieth the greatest part of the difficulty, in the doctrine of forgiveness of sin, for here sin is in the godly, and truly so, yet for all that it doth not condemn. The Papists finding by experience such motions of original sin in us, yet do say, they are only penal effects, and remain as opportunities by spiritual combat to increase the Crown of glory: and this they urge as impossible they should be sins, and yet not condemn the godly, because guilt is inseparable from sin. And the Antinomian doth expressly stumble at this stone; Dr Crisps Serm. vol. 2. p. 92. For my part (saith he) I do not think as some do, that guilt differs from sin, but that it is sin it self: They are but two words expressing the same thing. Now if it were so, that sin and guilt, or the ordination of it to punishment were the same thing, there could be no sin in the godly. It is true, guilt cannot be but where sin hath been,