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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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4. Glorification, whereby we are put in full possession and fruition of it. Chap. 8. 17. ad finem.
4. Glorification, whereby we ar put in full possession and fruition of it. Chap. 8. 17. ad finem.
II. The original ground and root from whence all this springs and hath its rise, Gods free Election and Predestination to Grace and Glory, obviously propounded, Chap. 8. 29, 30. purposely prosecuted, Chap. 9—11.
II. The original ground and root from whence all this springs and hath its rise, Gods free Election and Predestination to Grace and Glory, obviouslie propounded, Chap. 8. 29, 30. purposelie prosecuted, Chap. 9—11.
Now because those former are effects and fruits of these latter, and as the root of a plant, and foundation of a fabric, lie usually out of sight under ground, but the shoots and branches of the one, and the frame of the edifice with the other rise above ground and offer themselves unto view, so Election and Predestination lie hid of themselves, and cannot be descried and ⟨p. 4⟩discovered of us concerning our selves save by their effects and fruits; the Apostles according to the Rule, a notioribus inchoandum, he begins with the former, that thereby as by streams issuing and flowing down from a spring we may ascend up to the well-head, or as by tracing the course and decurs of a river running down into the Sea, we may be directed unto that brimless and bottomless Ocean of Gods goodness, from whence as they had their first rise, so they are to return and empty themselves into, his glory being their ultimate end. Chap. 11. 36.
Now because those former are effects and fruits of these latter, and as the root of a plant, and foundation of a fabrick, ly usually out of sight under ground, but the shoots and branches of the one, and the frame of the edifice with the other rise above ground and offer themselvs unto view, so Election and Predestination ly hid of themselvs, and cannot be descried and