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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30248	The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errours of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially Antinomians in XXX lectures preached at Lawrence-Iury, London / by Anthony Burgess ...	Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.	1651 (1651)	Wing B5663; ESTC R21442	243,318	299

THE True Doctrine OF JUSTIFICATION Asserted and Vindicated FROM The Errours of PAPISTS ARMINIANS SOCINIANS and more especially ANTINOMIANS In XXX LECTURES Preached at Lawrence-Iury London By Anthony Burgess Preacher of Gods Word The second Edition Corrected and Revised LONDON Printed by A. Miller for Tho. Vnderhil at the Anchor in Pauls-Church-yard near the little North-door 1651. TO THE Right Honourable EDWARD Earle of Manchester Vicount Mandeville Baron of Kimbolton My Lord THE many favours your Honour hath vouchsafed unto me altogether undeserving may justly command a publike acknowledgement thereof to the whole world But that which doth especially encourage me to seek for your Protection in the publishing of this Treatise is your unfained love of and stedfast continuance in the Truth So that those two things which Pythagoras said made a man compleat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to doe good to others and to embrace truth may without flattery be affirmed to be in your Lordship And as for the latter Paul speaks it as a great commendation that the true faith did dwell in Lois which denoteth a stable and firm permanency as the Apostle elsewhere saith Sinne dwelleth in him In some mens breasts Truth is only a sojourner and their assent to it passeth away as the Psalmist speaks of our life like a tale that is told Now herein Christ speaks of a peculiar priviledge to the Elect that it is not possible for them to be deceived by false Prophets if it were possible to deceive the very Elect which is to be understood of a totall and finall seduction Thus also when the Apostle had mentioned the Apostacy of Hymenaeus and Philetus he interposeth by way of comfort to the godly neverthelesse the foundation of the Lord standeth sure having this Seal the Lord knoweth who are his and no wonder if the truths of Christ are worthy of all hearty acceptation seeing they are wholly by supernaturall revelation in which sense some say Christ is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Word because he revealed the will of his Father to us but in another respect are we to take heed how we decline from the truths of God because they are the inlet and first instrument of our Sanctification and Salvation God would have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth Sanctifie them by thy truth thy Word is truth and our regeneration is described pa●tly by the renewing of our minde so as corrupt distillations from the head are apt to putrifie the vitals so Errours and false Doctrins do quickly corrupt our pract●ce One thing more I make bold to recommend to your Lordship that besides the bare receiving of the truth there is as the perfection of knowledge the acknowledgement of truth after godlinesse and the learning of truth as it is in Jesus Christ which is when the truths we beleeve have a savoury and powerfull effect upon us and nothing causeth our abode in the truth so much as the experimentall efficacy of it upon our hearts It is good saith the Apostle to have the heart established with grace and not with meats One would have thought the Apostle should have said it is good to have the heart established with sound Doctrine because he exhorteth them not to be carried aside with every winde of Doctrine but he saith Grace rather then knowledge because this is the choicest Antidote against falshoods Tantum scimus quantum operamur we know no more viz. favourily clearly and stedfastly then we have powerfull practice of Now of all supernaturall truths the doctrine of Justification hath no mean excellency this is the article which Luther said reigned in his heart In this is a Christians treasury of hope and consolation and because the Antinomians whose opinions may be stiled as those of Epicurus were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 inticing Syrens of a mans fleshly minde have put their dead flies in this precious Box of ointment I have endeavoured to select this precious Gold from their drosse Though the matter I handle be in part controversall yet it is also in a great measure practicall The greatest mercy I can wish to your Lordship is this glorious priviledge of Iustification in which only and not in riches honours or any earthly dignity consisteth true and perfect blessednesse as David a King doth heartily and with much affection acknowledge Psal 32.1 and Paul by vertue of this Iustification Rom. 8. triumphs over all adversity and trouble whatsoever Of which glorious happinesse that your Lordship may be made partaker is the Prayer of Your Lordships most humble Servant in the Lord ANTHONY BURGESS TO THE Christian Reader Christian Reader WEre I not already ingaged I know not how in this publike way of Controversies I should wholly decline such service partly because of that ill fate if I may say so which doth accompany books through the various Palates of those that reade them whereby they are unwilling agnoscere quod Dei est or ignoscere quod hominis est partly because of expectation which is an heavy prejudice all men judging it reasonable that now in these latter times there being the advantage of all the abilities of those who went before us a man should not so much libros as thesauros scribere write not Books but rich Treasuries as the heathen said partly because this controversall way doth so possesse the intellectual part that the affectionate part is much dulled and made remiss thereby Even a Papist Granada in his way of Devotion said A Learned man that was busied in such kinde of imployment should reckon himself in the number of those wretched Captives that are ad metalla damnati Though all the day long they dig up Gold yet they are not any whit inriched by it but others for whom they work And Rodericus as I remember relate●h of Suarez that he was wont to say He esteemed that little pittance of time which constantly every day he set apart for the private examination of his own conscience more then all the other part of the day which he spent in his voluminous Controversies The Apostle speaks of doting about questions but the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth to be sick and languishing which doth declare the nature of needlesse disputations that they fret away and make to consume the true power of Godlinesse God once only spake out of a thorny bush and as the Israelites were to go out of the military Camp to gath●r manna so must a man shuntedious disputes who would injoy the fat and marrow of Christian Religion But notwithstanding these d●scouragements yet the Apostle with a vehement obtestat●o● cals upon Timothy and in him all faithfull Ministers to preserve that good thing committed to their Charge so that it is the duty of Ministers not only by Preaching but otherwise as occasion serveth to see that the golden treasure deposited in the Church be not debased