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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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Thirdly, That all afflictions and crosses are to be reduced to the Law. 1We may acknowledge this truth also, if so be by Law we mean strictly whatsoever doth command and threaten, and the Gospel to be only promissory, though if largely taken, the Gospel hath its curses and afflictions; so God threatening or afflicting of a godly man, doth so far use the Law as an instrument to make him sensible of his sin: and therefore this is a sure Argument, that the Law is not abolished as to all uses to the Believer, because still there do befall afflictions to the godly, not only from sin (as the Antinomians speak) but for sin; only as the Law without the grace of God worketh all evil, so do all afflictions likewise to men that are not godly: Therefore wicked men in afflictions, are as garlic, or any ill-smelling herb, the more it is pounced, the worse smell it sends forth; so that there must be teaching, as well as chastening, to make that affliction blessed.
Thirdly, That all afflictions and crosses are to be reduced to the Law. 1We may acknowledge this truth also, if so be by Law we mean strictly whatsoever doth command and threaten, and the Gospel to be only promissory, though if largely taken, the Gospel hath its curses and afflictions; so God threatning or afflicting of a godly man, doth so far use the Law as an instrument to make him sensible of his sin: and therefore this is a sure Argument, that the Law is not abolished as to all uses to the Believer, because still there do befall afflictions to the godly, not only from sin (as the Antinomians speak) but for sin; only as the Law without the grace of God worketh all evil, so do all afflictions likewise to men that are not godly: Therefore wicked men in afflictions, are as garlik, or any ill-smelling herb, the more it is pounced, the worse smell it sends forth; so that there must be teaching, as well as chastening, to make that affliction blessed.
- 13 All afflictions are to be reduced to the Law.