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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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LECTURE IV.
ROM. 3.24, 25. Being Justified freely by his grace, &c.
ROM. 3.24, 25. Being Iustified freely by his grace, &c.
1The Doctrine about remission of sin being thus particularly declared, we come to that great Question, How afflictions come upon the godly after the pardon of their sins? For the Antinomian goeth into one extremity, and the Papist into another, so true is that of Tertullian, Christ is always crucified between two thieves; that is, Truth suffers between two extreme errors. Therefore in prosecuting this point, which is of great practical concernment, I will lay down, First, What the Antinomian saith; Secondly, What the Papist; And lastly, What the Orthodox. The Antinomian,2 in his book, called the Honey-Comb of Justification, explaineth himself in these particulars, by which you may judge, that his Honey is Gall. Having made this Objection to himself, That the children of God are corrected by God, therefore he seeth sin in them, maketh a large Answer: Distinguishing first of afflictions, 3calling some Legal, and some Evangelical, and then he distinguisheth of Persons, making some unconverted, others converted; the unconverted again, he makes to be either such as are reprobate, or else elected; now (saith he) the legal crosses have a two-fold operation, either vindicative or corrective: Vindicative are such afflictions as God executeth upon the wicked and reprobates in which sense God is called the God of vengeance: Corrective, are such lashes of the Law, as are executed upon those persons that are the children of God by election, but not yet converted, and so under the Law, therefore these afflictions are not in wrath, to confound them, but in mercy to prepare