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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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1Secondly, That God may, and sometimes doth afflict, yet not in reference to sin. Thus God doth exercise Job, who though he was not without sin, yet God seemeth not to do it for sin: Therefore such calamities were rather exercises of his graces, then correctives of his sins: they were to him, what a storm, or a tempest is to a skilful Pilate, what a valiant adversary is to a stout Champion; and to this purpose is that answer of our Saviour, when the question was, Whether the parents, or the blind man himself had sinned, that he should be born blind? (speaking according to the opinion of some Philosophers, that was now also received among the Jews (as learned men think) viz. That there was a prexistency of the souls before they were united to their bodies) our Saviour returneth this answer, Neither hath this man sinned (because he had no being before his birth) nor his parents (viz. some grievous sin, for which God would punish the child) but only that the works of God may be made manifest. This also must be granted.
1Secondly, That God may, and sometimes doth afflict, yet not in reference to sin. Thus God doth exercise Job, who though he was not without sin, yet God seemeth not to do it for sin: Therefore such calamities were rather exercises of his graces, then correctives of his sins: they were to him, what a storm, or a tempest is to a skilfull Pilate, what a valiant adversary is to a stout Champion; and to this purpose is that answer of our Saviour, when the question was, Whether the parents, or the blinde man himself had sinned, that he should be born blinde? (speaking according to the opinion of some Philosophers, that was now also received among the Jews (as learned men think) viz. That there was a prexistency of the souls before they were united to their bodies) our Saviour returneth this answer, Neither hath this man sinned (because he had no being before his birth) nor his parents (viz. some grievous sin, for which God would punish the childe) but only that the works of God may be made manifest. This also must be granted.
- 12 God sometimes afflicts, yet not in reference to sin.