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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.
My Lord,
THE many favours your Honour hath vouchsafed unto me, altogether undeserving, may justly command a public acknowledgement thereof to the whole world; But that which doth especially encourage me to seek for your Protection, ⟨image 3⟩in the publishing of this Treatise, is your unfeigned love of, and steadfast continuance in the Truth: So that those two things which Pythagoras said, made a man complete, [Greek or Hebrew], to do good to others, and to embrace truth, may without flattery be affirmed to be in your Lordship. And as for the latter, Paul speaks it as a great commendation, that the true faith did dwell in Lois, 1which denoteth a stable and firm permanency, as the Apostle elsewhere saith, Sin dwelleth in him. In some mens breasts, Truth is only a sojourner, and their assent to it passeth away (as the Psalmist speaks of our life; like a tale that is told. Now herein Christ speaks of a peculiar privilege to the Elect, that it is not possible for them to be deceived by false Prophets (if it were possible to deceive the very Elect) which is to be understood of a total and final seduction: 2Thus also when the Apostle had mentioned the Apostasy of Hymenaeus and Philetus, he interposeth by way of comfort to the godly,3 nevertheless the foundation of the Lord standeth sure, having this Seal, the Lord knoweth who are his; and no wonder, if the truths of Christ are worthy of all hearty acceptation, seeing they are wholly by supernatural revelation, in which sense, some say, Christ is called [Greek or Hebrew],4 the Word, because he revealed the will of his Father to us; but in another respect are we to take heed how we decline from the truths of God, because they are the inlet and first instrument of our Sanctification and Salvation,