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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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Fourthly,1 That in the calamities which fall upon the godly there is a great difference, some are common and absolutely determined, others more special, and not necessary. This distinction must be attended, for God hath so peremptorily and irrevocably concluded upon some miseries as the fruits of sin, that no repentance or humiliation can ever take them off. Thus though a man should ⟨p. 29⟩have as much faith as Abraham, as much meekness as Moses, as much uprightness as David, as much zeal and labour for the Church, as Paul; yet all this would not free from death, nor could it remove the curse that is upon the ground; so a woman's holiness and humiliation cannot take away the pains and throbs in child-bearing, for these are absolutely decreed. But then there are special calamities, which many times by turning unto God are taken away; yea, and God very frequently when he pardoneth sin, he taketh also away those outward miseries, as we see in many whom he healed both in soul and body at the same time. So that we say not God is bound always when he doth pardon sin, outwardly to afflict for it.
Fourthly,1 That in the calamities which fall upon the godly there is a great difference, some are common and absolutely determined, others more special, and not necessary. This distinction must be attended, for God hath so peremptorily and irrevocably concluded upon some miseries as the fruits of sin, that no repentance or humiliation can ever take them off. Thus though a man should ⟨p. 29⟩have as much faith as Abraham, as much meeknesse as Moses, as much uprightnesse as David, as much zeal and labour for the Church, as Paul; yet all this would not free from death, nor could it remove the curse that is upon the ground; so a womans holiness and humiliation cannot take away the pains and throbs in childe-bearing, for these are absolutely decreed. But then there are special calamities, which many times by turning unto God are taken away; yea, and God very frequently when he pardoneth sin, he taketh also away those outward miseries, as we see in many whom he healed both in soul and body at the same time. So that we say not God is bound alwaies when he doth pardon sin, outwardly to afflict for it.