A41521:185
A discourse of the true nature of the Gospel demonstrating that it is no…
A discourse of the true nature of the Gospel demonstrating that it is no new law, but a pure doctrine of grace : in answer to the Reverend Mr. Lorimer's Apology / by Tho. Goodwin ...
London: printed by J. Darby, 1695
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SINCE Popery and Arminianism, under various Names, and in pursuit of different Ends, make the same stated Opposition to the Design of the Gospel; every Opinion which agrees with their Errors, deserves to be suspiciously regarded, and is unworthy of any favourable reception. If it then doth appear that this Doctrine of the Gospel's being a new Law, hath been strongly maintained by the Romish Church in several Ages, as that which lays the surest Foundation for that dear Article of their Faith, the Merit of Works; and hath all been zealously espoused by the Arminians and Socinians, as a most effectual Engine to overthrow Justification by the imputed Righteousness of Christ: Then all who love Jesus the Redeemer, or are careful of their own Salvation by him, will be very wary of giving a welcome Entertainment to this new Law. That the Doctors of the Romish Church have all along asserted the Gospel to be a new Law, will be evident from a few Instances.
SINCE Popery and Arminianism, under various Names, and in pursuit of different Ends, make the same stated Opposition to the Design of the Gospel; every Opinion which agrees with their Errors, deserves to be suspiciously regarded, and is unworthy of any favourable reception. If it then doth appear that this Doctrine of the Gospel's being a new Law, hath been strongly maintain'd by the Romish Church in several Ages, as that which lays the surest Foundation for that dear Article of their Faith, the Merit of Works; and hath all been zealously espoused by the Arminians and Socinians, as a most effectual Engine to overthrow Justification by the imputed Righteousness of Christ: Then all who love Jesus the Redeemer, or are careful of their own Salvation by him, will be very wary of giving a welcome Entertainment to this new Law. That the Doctors of the Romish Church have all along asserted the Gospel to be a new Law, will be evident from a few Instances.
Petrus Lombardus, the Master of the Sentences, who flourished An. Dom. 1141. explaining the Difference between the Old Law, and the New Law the Gospel. aThe Precepts of them (says he) are different as to Ceremonials: For as to Morals they are the same, but are more fully contained in the Gospel.