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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. When a sin is forgiven, it is totally and perfectly forgiven. 1This is to be considered in the next place; for when the Antinomian would have us so diligently consider that place, Jer. 50.20. where God saith, The iniquities of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none •• If (I say) this were all his meaning, sin shall be as if it had never been in respect of condemnation, he shall be as surely freed from hell, as if he had never sinned, all this is true. But they have a further meaning, and that is, That the sin was so laid upon Christ, that the sinner ceaseth to be a sinner, as if because a surety payeth the debt of some lend bankrupt, that very payment would make him cease to be a bankrupt, that is false; yet God doth so forgive sin, that it can be forgiven no more perfectly then it is: Those sins cannot be forgiven any more then they are, which is matter of infinite comfort, and as it is totally, so irrevocably, God will not revive them again: Hence are those expressions of blotting them out, of throwing them into the depth of the sea; and howsoever that Parable, Mat. 18. which speaks of the Master forgiving a servant so many talents, yet upon the servants cruelty to some of his fellows, his master calleth him to account, and throweth him in prison for his former debts; howsoever (I say) this be brought by some to prove that sins forgiven, may upon after-iniquities be charged upon a man, yet the ground is not sufficient. For first, The main scope only of a Parable is Argumentative. The Fathers do fitly represent Parables to many things; to a Knife whose edge doth only cut, yet the back helps to that: to a Plough whose Plough-shear only cuts, yet the wood is subservient; so in a Parable, the main scope and intent is only argumentative; the other parts are but like so many shadows or flourishes in the picture to make it more glorious; now this instance was not mainly intended by our Saviour, but forgiveness of one another; so that this part doth only show, what is in use amongst men, or what sin doth deserve at Gods hands; not that God revoketh his pardon, or repenteth that ever he hath forgiven ⟨p. 22⟩us, but this is more expressly answered afterwards.