"Aphesis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of Holland wrote to the Synod not to discuss the Sabbatarian question, and to forbid the combatants from further controversy. There were other charges brought against Cocceius, however, one of which was his distinction between aphesis hamartion and paresis hamartion, by which he held that the former was a complete pardon, but the latter incomplete, and only in force under the old dispensation. He placed the whole system of theology under the figure of a covenant. There were two covenants, one of works, and the other ...
— History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology • John F. Hurst |
