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An antidote against error concerning justification, or, The true notion of justification, and of…An antidote against errour concerning justification, or, The true notion of justification, and of…
An antidote against error concerning justification, or, The true notion of justification, and of justifying faith, cleared by the light of scripture, and solid reason, from several mistakes of the words, which misapprehensions prove the seeds of dangerous errors by ... Thomas Gataker ... ; to which is added, The way of truth and peace, or, A reconciliation of the holy apostles S. Paul and S. James, concerning justification by faith without works, Rom. 3.28, by works and not by faith only, Jam. 2, 21, 24, by Charles Gataker ...An antidote against errour concerning justification, or, The true notion of justification, and of justifying faith, cleared by the light of scripture, and solid reason, from several mistakes of the words, which misapprehensions prove the seeds of dangerous errours by ... Thomas Gataker ... ; to which is added, The way of truth and peace, or, A reconciliation of the holy apostles S. Paul and S. James, concerning justification by faith without works, Rom. 3.28, by works and not by faith only, Jam. 2, 21, 24, by Charles Gataker ...
London: printed by J.C. for Henry Brome, 1670
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Dedication: To the Right Honourable, CHARLES Earl of Carnarvon, Lord Dormer, Viscount Ascot, Baron…
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your Lordship in the midst of this corrupt and crooked generation hath continued steadfast and unmoveable in the belief and profession of the general Principles of Religion, upon which ⟨image 3⟩as a sure Basis all Justice and Civility are founded, and particularly of the Doctrine declared and established by the Church of England, with an equal aversion from Atheistical profaneness, and from new-fangled pretensions to Religion.
your Lordship in the midst of this corrupt and crooked generation hath continued stedfast and unmoveable in the belief and profession of the general Principles of Religion, upon which ⟨image 3⟩as a sure Basis all Justice and Civility are founded, and particularly of the Doctrine declared and established by the Church of England, with an equal aversion from Atheistical profaneness, and from new-fangled pretensions to Religion.
Some have observed of us Islanders, that we are very apt to vary our Fashions, and have ascribed our Inconstancy to the changeable temper of our Air, and the unstable complexion of our Climate. I wish our Country-men were not as vainly, and that more dangerously fickle in altering the Opinions of their Religion, as they are mutable in the habit and mode of their Apparel. I am sure the fault of this flitting and shifting humour is not chargeable upon the Stars, Sky, Air, or other Elements, which are all the innocent creatures of a good God, and uneffective upon the wills of men. But the shame and misery will light heavy at last upon these unballasted minds, unstable souls, unwary followers of cunning seducers, or itching affecters of novelty, who delight to wander, but forsake their own mercy, while they trust in lying vanities. To prevent the going astray, or being misled from the way of Truth, and peace of conscience which depends thereon, in one main point of Christian Religion, I have published a Piece of my Father of pious memory; which tho imperfect, because a mortal disease cut off the thread of his meditation first, and shortly after of his life, drawn forth to fourscore years within a few weeks; yet is (as I suppose) a very useful Foundation, on which any Christian exercised in the study of Scripture, may build the same superstructure,