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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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In the next place he comes to Evangelical crosses, which fall upon them that are actively and declaratively (as he calls it) converted, and these he denieth expressly to be for their sins, for this were (saith he) to deny Christs satisfactory punishment, because by his death, we have not one spot of sin in us: therefore he makes them to be only the trial of their faith, and to exercise their faith: so that (by his divinity) when a godly man is afflicted, the flesh would indeed persuade a man hath sin in him, but this is to try whether thou canst believe thou art cleansed from sin for all these afflictions. Therefore if any man yield to this temptation (viz. that he hath sin in him when he is afflicted) what is this (saith he) but to deny Christ and his blood? Think you this to be the voice of the Scriptures? Hence he laboureth to show that twelve absurdities would follow from this doctrine of Gods afflicting his children for their sins, the strength of which shall be in his place considered; I have now only laid down his judgement; and he makes the Doctrine of the Protestants opposing this to be Popish, and confounding the Law and the Gospel together. Hence intending the Protestant Authors and Ministers, he saith, They paint God like an angry father, ever seeing sin in us, and ever standing with a rod and staff in his hand, lifted up over our heads, with which by reason he seeth sins in us, he is ever ready, though not to strike us down, yet to crack our crowns, and sorely to whip us: whereas the Gospel describeth him to be not only a loving Father, but also our well-pleased Father, at perfect peace with us; so that the upshot of his position is to show, that they are taskmasters and do degenerate to the legal teaching in the Old Testament, whosoever preach that God doth correct Believers for their sins: and I ⟨p. 26⟩have, saith he, somewhat the more largely hunted this Fox, because it is so nourished, not only by the Papists, but also some of us Protestants, who by lisping the language of Ashdod▪ do undermine the very roots of the Lords vine. And that you may see it is not one mans judgement amongst them, see what their great General saith in a Sermon,1 pag. 162. Know this, that at that instant, when God brings afflictions upon thee, he doth not remember any sin of thine, they are not in his thoughts towards thee.