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The souls cordial in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the…The souls cordiall in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the…
The souls cordial in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the guilt of sin. II. Discovering advantages by Christs ascension. The third volum. / By that faithful labourer in the Lords vineyard Mr. Christopher Love, pastor of Lawrence Jury, London.The souls cordiall in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the guilt of sin. II. Discovering advantages by Christs ascension. The third volum. / By that faithfull labourer in the Lords vineyard Mr. Christopher Love, pastor of Lawrence Jury, London.
London: printed for Nathaniel Brooke, 1653
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Again, another absurdity will follow, to say that a man before he repents is pardoned, it is as much as to say, before a man be in Christ, he is pardoned: this is ⟨p. 171⟩false, for without Christ there is no pardon. I might run over many absurdities that would follow in denying this orthodox point.
There is one strong Objection, which is this:
Doth not God love a man from all eternity? and doth not the Scripture say, that we were chosen in Christ before the foundations of the world were laid? now God electing of us, or loving of us, is Gods pardoning of us; if God doth love a man before he was born, then sure God doth pardon a man from eternity. To argue from Gods love to actual pardon, is as great an absurdity, as to argue that God did purpose from all eternity to create the world, therefore the world was created. God decrees to pardon from all eternity, God executes this decree when thou art converted, God doth manifest this, that he hath pardoned thee, when he doth give thee the assurance of his love. Antinomians make only the decree and the manifestation, and leave out the execution of it.
Doth not God love a man from all eternity? and doth not the Scripture say, that we were chosen in Christ before the foundations of the world were laid? now God electing of us, or loving of us, is Gods pardoning of us; if God doth love a man before he was born, then sure God doth pardon a man from eternity. To argue from Gods love to actuall pardon, is as great an absurdity, as to argue that God did purpose from all eternity to create the world, therefore the world was created. God decrees to pardon from all eternity, God executes this decree when thou art converted, God doth manifest this, that he hath pardoned thee, when he doth give thee the assurance of his love. Antinomians make only the decree and the manifestation, and leave out the execution of it.