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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.
First, That God doth not afflict any but where there is sin in the subject; for so was the threatening at first,1 in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt die. By death is meant all kind of evil and punishment, so that had there been no sin going before, there had no curse, either upon man or creatures followed after. Hence it is that Divines say, The very hunger and thirst which Adam had, while in the state of integrity, was without that pain and provocation as it is in us. So that the state of man in righteousness, was like the heavens that admit of no corruptive alterations. As for that dispute,2 Whether God may not by his absolute Sovereignty adjudge man without the consideration of sin to everlasting misery, the affirmative decision of it will not much incommodate this truth, seeing that even then (they say) God doth this per modum simplicis cruciatus, by way of a mere naked trouble and pain: not per modum poenae, by way of a punishment. As for Christ, he though innocent, was a man of sorrows, because our sins were laid on him.
First, That God doth not afflict any but where there is sin in the subject; for so was the threatning at first,1 in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt die. By death is meant all kinde of evil and punishment, so that had there been no sin going before, there had no curse, either upon man or creatures followed after. Hence it is that Divines say, The very hunger and thirst which Adam had, while in the state of integrity, was without that pain and provocation as it is in us. So that the state of man in righteousnesse, was like the heavens that admit of no corruptive alterations. As for that dispute,2 Whether God may not by his absolute Soveraignty adjudge man without the consideration of sin to everlasting misery, the affirmative decision of it will not much incommodate this truth, seeing that even then (they say) God doth this per modum simplicis cruciatus, by way of a meer naked trouble and pain: not per modum poenae, by way of a punishment. As for Christ, he though innocent, was a man of sorrows, because our sins were laid on him.