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Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the moral law and the covenants, from the…Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the morall law and the covenants, from the…
Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the moral law and the covenants, from the errors of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially, Antinomians in XXX lectures, preached at Laurence-Jury, London / by Anthony Burgess ...Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the morall law and the covenants, from the errours of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially, Antinomians in XXX lectures, preached at Laurence-Jury, London / by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by James Young for Thomas Underhill, 1647
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.
1. The word [Repentance,] is taken sometimes largely, and sometimes 1strictly: when it is taken largely, it comprehends faith in it, and is the whole turning unto God Rev. 2. 5. sometimes it is used strictly, for sorrow about sin, and so distinguished from faith. Thus, they repented not, that they might believe; and faith and repentance are put together, Now all the while a man hath ⟨p. 261⟩trouble and sorrow for sin, without faith, it is like the body without the soul; yea, it carrieth a man with Cain, and Judas, into the very pit of despair; when a man seeth how much is against him, and not how much is for him, it cannot but crush, and weigh him down to the ground. The tears of repentance are like those waters, very bitter, till Christ sweeten them.
1. The word [Repentance,] is taken sometimes largely, and sometimes 1strictly: when it is taken largely, it comprehends faith in it, and is the whole turnign unto God Rev. 2. 5. sometimes it is used strictly, for sorrow about sin, and so distinguished from faith. Thus, they repented not, that they might beleeve; and faith and repentance are put together, Now all the while a man hath ⟨p. 261⟩trouble and sorrow for sin, without faith, it is like the body without the soul; yea, it carrieth a man with Cain, and Judas, into the very pit of dispair; when a man seeth how much is against him, and not how much is for him, it cannot but crush, and weigh him down to the ground. The tears of repentance are like those waters, very bitter, till Christ sweeten them.
- 1Repentance strictly taken, is distinguished from Faith.