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A70857	Christos angasmos, or, Christ our sanctification faithfully explained, fully confirmed, and practically applied ... being the substance of several lectures or meditations / by Tho. Pichard ...	Pichard, Thomas.; Pritchard, Thomas, M.A.	1667 (1667)	Wing P3524; ESTC R10560	136,857	229

Harmony between the divine Attributes righteousness and mercy do sweetly embrace and kiss each other the Glory of both shine forth most illustriously in and by the bloody passion of the Son of God Now the Acts of God the principal Efficient cause are to be distinguished according to the distinction of the three persons 1. The Father justifies as the primary Cause and Authour he gave his only begotten Son for our justification and salvation John 3.16 2. The Father justifies as Legislatour enacting by his Soveraign Authority that sweet Law of the New Covenant by vertue whereof every believing sinner is justified from the guilt of sin from which he could not be justified by the Law of Moses This Law of justification by Faith is Gods own act and Deed Acts 13.38.39 the great Instrumentum pacis betwen God and man the Tenour of the Gospel our Magna Charta runs that he that believeth shall be saved 3. The Father justifies as a Judge in absolving those that believe and in pronouncing them just in Christ and that in three respects 1 God j●stifies upon believing actually 1. God justifies a believing sinner upon his believing actually by Faith we are thus justified Rom. 5.1 Gal. 3.8 By believing he hath a Title good in Law an indefesible right to all the promises of the Covenant God then owns and approves of him as a person justified 2. Particularly at Death Heb. 12.23 2. At the moment of dissolution God justifies a Believer particularly as the Judge of all and the Judge of all the Earth passing a particular private Sentence of everlasting life upon every believing Soul 3. Eminently at the Day of Judgment 3. Eminently at the day of judgment God justifies at the last day by the man Christ Jesus Act. 17.31 when the Antient of Dayes shall take the Throne when the Son of Man appearing in power and great Glory shall in open Court before all the world by publick Sentence for ever acquit and discharge Believers at that solemn and Great Day Thus the Father justifies 2. Jesus Christ the Son justifies as the Mediatour and meritorious Cause of our justification and that in two respects 1. As our Surety he paid our Debt Christ is both 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Surety and a Mediatour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 redemptionis precium and as our Redeemer he laid down the price of our Redemption Rom. 3.23 wee are justified freely by the Grace of God and yet through the redemption that is in Christ His blood was the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the price of our redemption Ephes 1.7 in whom we have redemption through his blood even the forgivenesse of sins according to the riches of his Grace he is the Mediatour of reconciliation between God and Man 2. Christ justifies as our Advocate and Intercessor presenting our persons pleading our cause prevailing with his Father by the speakings of his blood that the vertue of his merits may be applied to us Rom. 8.34 It is God that justifies who shall condemn 't is Christ that died yea rather that is risen again who also maketh intercession for us there is a rather put upon the resurrection and ascention of Christ 1 John 2.2 we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous Thus Christ justifies 3. The Spirit justifies as the Applicatory Cause he doth reveal and apply to us the righteousness of Christ for our justification 1. The Spirit as the Spirit of Wisdome and Revelation reveals and discovers this Robe of Glory to us this Garment of Salvation Though the Father hath given the Son and the Son hath given himself for our righteousness yet 't is the Spirit that applyes this righteousness Revelation and Application is his peculiar Office 2. As the Spirit of Regeneration working in us the grace of Faith Directly which is one of the fruits of the Spirit whereby we receive and apprehend Christ the Lord our righteousness Causa Causae est etiam causa Causati unto our justification in the Court of Heaven the Spirit justifieth as he is the cause of the cause the Author of Faith that justifies 3. As a Spirit of Adoption by confirming our Faith Reflectively by working in us the assurance of our justification by sealing us up unto the day of Redemption the Spirit it self beareth witness with our spirits that we are the children of God Rom. 8.16 17. Thus the righteousness of God by the revelation of the Spirit is revealed from Faith to Faith Rom. 1.17 Thus much for the principal efficient cause 2. The instrumental or ministring causes are the Word of God and Faith 1. The ministry of the Word is the instrumental cause on Gods part The Gospel is manus Dei ●fferentis faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word Rom. 10.17 and in Gal. 3.2 the Gospel is called the hearing of Faith God in his Word by his Ministers doth as it were beseech sinners to be reconciled to him 2 Cor. 5.19 20. The Word of God is the vehiculum spiritus the Charriot of the Spirit wherein he rides the Word is the Wardrope Isa 61.10 Matth. 14.44 wherein this glorious Robe of Righteousness is laid up 't is the goodly Field wherein this heavenly treasure is to be found 2. The second instrumental cause is Faith Faith is manus accipientis Faith is the hand of the Soul whereby we receive Christ and apply his righteousnesse John 1.12 Faith justifies * Non 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. Primo per se ut qualitas propriè aut motus actio vel vel passio aut opus aliquod bonum eximii precii quasi ipsa sit justitia aut ejus pars aut etiam justitiae loco ex censu estimatione Dei sed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 secundario secundum aliud nempe ut modus medium instrumentum ceu oculus manus qua Christi ejusque participes reddimur adeoque relativè ad objectum Iesum ipsius justitiam promissiones gratiae Synop. Pur. Theol. p. 442. Rom. 5.1 But how doth faith justifie Faith justifies as one expresseth it vi legis latae as it is our evangelical righteousness or our keeping the Gospel Law Faith pretends to no merit nor vertue of its own but professedly avows its dependance upon the merit of Christs satisfaction as our legal righteousness on which it layeth hold its excellency ariseth from Gods Sanction who made choyce of this act of Believing to the honour of Justification because it layes the creature low and so highly exalteth Christ The Act of believing is as the Silver Gods Authority in the Gospel-Sanction is as the Kings Image stampt upon it which gives it all its value as to justification without this stamp it could never have been currant Faith doth not justifie as an habit act work or quality as the Papists say but as an instrument or hand

1.5 6. Rom. 5.8 9. Cum multis aliis c. Before I proceed to the fifth General propounded to be spoken to I think it not unnecessary to enquire Forma dat esse what is the form of Christs satisfaction which renders it satisfactory to God and justificatory to man I answer The infinite merit of what he did and suffered which infinite Merit stands 1. In the dignity of his Person the fulness of the God-head dwelt in him bodily Col. 2.9 14. Now for the work of a servant to be don by the Lord of all renders his active and for him to suffer as a Malefactor between Malefactors who was God blessed for evermore Renders his passive righteousness infinitely meritorious Acts 20 28. 1 Joh. 1.7 No wonder the blood of Christ cleanseth from all sin for it is the blood of God by the figure ca●led by the Ancients 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Communication of properties the blood of the Man Christ Jesus is called the blood of God And this is the reason why the righteousness of one redounds to all the Elect for the justifi●ation of life Rom. 5.18 19. The doings and sufferings of this Glorious Person the Lord our righteousnesse though for a few years were in●●●it●ly ● more value than all that all the creatu●●s in Heaven o● Earth could have done o●●uff●red to eternity Heb. 1 6. the very Man Christ Jesus is above all the Angels for he is the Man Gods fellow an high Word Zech. 13.7 And this infinite worthiness of the Redeemers Person ye have excellently described as the irradiating and infinitely exalting all he did and suff●red Consult these Texts Heb. 1.1 2 3. Phil. 2.6 7 8 9 10. 2. The righteousness of Jesus Christ is of infinite merit and a meer supererogation of an infinitely Glorious Person 1. His active Righteousness stood in his obedience to the Ceremonial and Moral Law 1. His obedience to the ceremonial Law was a meer supererogation What for the substance to comply with the shadows for the Anti-type to do homage to its own Types besides he submitted to those Ordinances the end and institution whereof supposeth Guilt what ●ore-skin of iniquity had he to be cut off by Circumcision what filth to be wash't away in Baptism Luke 1 21.2● Luk. 3.21 yet he was circumcised and baptized and his Mother offered for her purification 2. His obedience to the moral Laws Although it must be granted as man it was his duty yet it was not his duty to become man Gal. 4.4 his incarnation was a work of supererogation the Law did never command that the eternal Son of the living God should take upon him the form of a Servant keep the Law suffer and die This cond scention of his was wholly free and arbi●rary what but his own infinite love could move the eternal Word to pitch his Tent in our Nature What else could move the Lord of the World to become a servant the Antient of Dayes to become a Childe or the Son of God to be the Son of Mary And as his Active so also his passive righteousnesse was a meet supererogation What had divine Justice to do with the holy Childe Jesus Had it not been for his own eternal compact with the Father he was a sinlesse Person the Lamb of God without spot he suffered not for himself Dan. 9.26 he that knew no sin was made sin for us i. e. a sacrifice for our sins that we might be made the righteousness of God in him 2 Cor. 5.21 3. The stamp of Gods Appointment highly dignifies as to us Christs righteousness and renders it acceptable to God and meritorious for our benefit The Assignment and appointment of God the Father sets a great value on it God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself not imputing to men their trespasses 2 Cor. 5.19 the reconciliation or justification of a sinner is as much the Fathers as the Sons Act. Christ frequently declares in the Gospel of John John 6. that he came into the world to do the will of him that sent him Christ received his mission and Commission from the Father for our justification Mark that notable place Heb. 10.6 7 9 10. In burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure the Lord did not delight in the blood of Bulls Goats or Calves those bruitish sacrifices vers 7. then said I the words of Christ Lo I come in the Volume of the Book it is written of me to doe Thy Will O God Mark that ver 9. Then said he lo I come to do thy will O God He taketh away the first the first sort of sacrifices that he may establish the second viz. sacrifice of his Son vers 10. by the which Will we are sanctified i. e. saved through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all Dr. Owen in his Death of Deaths and Mr. Caryl in his Lectures on Job Some of our Great Divines judiciously judge that much of the merit of Christs Passion doth arise from the eternal Compact and assignment of the Father not excluding the other considerations Now we pass on 5. To the fifth Query and that is this what are the severall causes concurring to our justification A. I answer The causes of our justification are these four chiefly 1. The Efficient 2. The Material 3. The Formal 4. The finall Cause 1. The Efficient cause and that is two-fold either principal or instrumental 1. The principal God the whole Trinity Father Son and Spirit Justification being an outward action ad extra respecting the creatures is the common Act of the whole Trinity God the whole Trinity doth justifie as Law-giver and Judge Jam. 4.12 There is one Law-giver able to save and to destroy he is the Judge of all the Earth by sin we became Gods Doctors and owed him many thousand Talents Christ our Surety payes our Debts and God dischargeth us by sin we were enemies and ungodly Christ our Mediato●● reconciles us enemies In summa nemo ad fidei justitiam perveniet nisi qui in se erit impius Calv. in Rom. 4.5 and just●fies us by Nature ungodly yea God in Christ reconciles us to himself not imputing to us our tr●spasses 2 Cor. 5.19 And this is both a gracious and a righteous Act of God 1. A gracious act Rom. 3.25 we are justified freely by his Grace 2 Tim. 1.9 Ephes 2.5 we are saved by Grace 2. A righteous act of God hereby he eminently declares his Righteousness Rom. 3.26 the Apostle brings it in with an ingemination to declare I say his righteousnesse that he might be just and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus the righteousness of Christ making plenary yea redundant and superabundant satisfaction to offended justice his justice being satisfied yea honoured with Christs righteousness Now he is not only merciful but also faithful and just to forgive us our sins 1 John 1.7 Now there is a blessed

the highest to be personally one with God 'T is the righteousness of Christ the Mediatour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God-man in one person though inherent in the Humane Nature and performed by it And this is that which by communication of properties gives infinite value vertue and eternal efficacy to the obedience of Jesus Christ wherefore 't is called the righteousness of God This I must profess to or the chief stay of my faith and the principal foundation of my comfort that He is Jehovah our righteousness Jer. 23.6 that he who is God blessed for ever Rom. 9.5 is the root and off spring of David that 't is the Prince of Life that died Acts 3.15 that the Lord of Glory was crucified 1 Cor. 2.8 that that blood which is the price of my redemption and justific●tion is the blood of God that he that was in the form of God Acts 20.28 and thought it no robbery to be equal with God did humble himself and became obedient to the death of the Crosse for me Phil. 2.6 8 Gal. 2.20 which whole humiliation of Jesus Christ God-man from his conception to his crucifixion especially his bloody passion Some say it consists both in applicatione pronunciatione ipsius Dei Justitia Dei est non peccare ●ustitia bominis est non impa●●ni peccarum Bernard Serm 23. ● Cantic is the material cause of our justification Thus much for the essential material Cause of our justification 3. What is the formal Cause of our justification I answer 'T is the imputation of Christs Righteousness because by imputing and applying it to us he is pleased to justify us Rom. 4.11 Psalm 32.1 Rom. 4.8 2 Cor. 5.19 Acts 10.43 Acts 13.28 29. St. Ambrose Bish p Downame and others do express it by this simile When Rebecca cloathed her son Jacob with the garmen●s of her elder son Esau the matter of the action was the garment of Esau which being applyed to him did cover him but the form of the action was the applying it to him the indution or putting it upon him so the matter of our justification is Christs righteousness the formal cause of our justification is the Fathers imputing or applying Christs righteousness to us The Apostle most clearly argues by way of comparison between Adam and Christ Rom. 5.17 18 19. how could the disobedience of Adam be made ours for condemnation or the obedience of Christ be made ours for justification unto life but only by imputation seeing they are both transient Acts. A learned Philosopher tells us Motus non est nisi dum fit postquam factus est non est Jul. Scaliger That a motion whether action or passion hath no being but while it is in doing or suffering but after it is done it hath no being the disobedience of the one and the obedience of the other the transgression of Adam and the righteousness of Christ can be no way conveyed to us but by imputation which term of imputation of Christs righteousness notwithstanding the Papists scoffing at it and calling it putative righteousness is used ten times in Rom. 4. 4. The End or final Cause for which God doth justifie a sinner by imputation of Christs righteousness and that is either supream or subordinate Utriusque enim misericordiae justitiae admirabile hic temperamentum relucet 1. The supream End is the manifestation of the Glory both of his justice and mercy as both which concur in all his works so chiefly in this great work of Justification The Lord is righteous in all his works and holy in all his wayes Ps 145.17 1. That his Justice might be fully Glorified God sent and set forth his own Son to be a propitiation for our sins and hath punished them in his humane Nature I say saith the Apostle to declare his righteousness that he might be just Rom. 3.25 26. and the justifier of him that bélieveth in Jesus 2. That his grace mercy also might eminently be magnified he hath sent his only begotten Son into the World that we might be justified freely by his Grace through the redemption that is in Christ Deus Pater nos justificat ut judex quidem sed sedens in Throno Gratiae c. Synops Rom. 3.25 and that we should be to the praise of the glory of his Grace wherein he hath made us accepted in the Beloved Ephes 1 6. Wherefore not unto us not unto us not to any works of righteousness that we have done but to the Father of Mercies the Lord God omnipotent and to the Lamb that sits upon the Throne be all Honour and Glory Blessing and praise for evermore Revel 5.13 2 Tim. 1.9 2. The subordinate end is our Salvation Rom. 8.30 whom he hath justified them also he Glorified Tit. 3.7 That being justified by his Grace we should be made heirs of eternal life Though our salvation be our particular proper Our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 supream end or chief good to which both justification and sanctification are referred yet it is subordinate to Gods Glory as to the Soveraign and universal End for such is the infinite goodness of God to believing sinners that he hath subordinated their salvation to his own Glory The precious properties of this Righteousness how it is a divine righteousness a temptation vanquishing and a World-overcoming righteousness a Law fulfilling and a justice satisfying righteousness a most perfect righteousness a Glorious Robe of righteousness an everlasting righteousness c. Ye have heard at large discussed from another Text therefore I shall forbear to enlarge herein Lastly What are the blessed fruits and consequences of Justification I answer 1. Sanctification inherent with good works apparent which non praecedunt justificandum sed sequuntur justificatum as Austin speaks they do not go before but follow after a state of justification 2. Peace with God that is an holy Tranquility and sweet serenity of conscience Rom. 5.1 3. A free Access to God Rom. 5.2 4. Certain hope of Glory Rom. 5.2 5. 5. Consolation yea Gloriation in and over afflictions Rom. 5.3 6. The shedding abroad the love of God into the hearts of the justified Rom. 5.5 7. Conservation from wrath to come Ro. 5.9 8. Glorification and eternal life Rom. 8.30 Rom. 5.21 that as sin hath reigned unto death even so might Grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. A word or two at parting to the Justified by way of Application 1. Walk up to your Duty 2. Live up to your Comfort 1. Walk up to your Duty Ye that are the redeemed of the Lord the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus walk worthy of him who hath called you to his Kingdom and Glory As ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord so walk ye in him Col. 2.6 Receive not this Grace of God in vain this is a certain evidence of your freedome from Condemnation if ye walk not after the flesh but after the spirit Rom. 8.1 and herein is your father glorified if ye bring forth much fruit John 15.6 As your Rece●pts are great so give me leave to tell you your duty is and your Accompt will be great also so live so act so work that ye may give up your accompt with joy 2. Live up to the Comfort of your state ye are already the sons of God and it doth not yet appear what ye shall be 1 Joh. 3.1 who shall say any thing to your charge whether men or Devils 't is God that justifieth it is Christ that died c. Ro. 8.33 Behold thy Treasures thy Comforts thy Joys thy Portion thy Priviledges laid up for thee in that precious Cabinet Rom. 5.1 2 3 4 5. Wherefore feed nay feast thy Soul by faith upon them wherefore in the worst of times the righteous shall be glad in the Lord and all the upright in heart shall glory Psalm 64 10. Thus so far as one Exercise would permit I have endeavoured to give some satisfaction in the great Argument of Justification Consider what I have said and the Lord give ye understanding 2 Tim. 2.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 FINIS