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Actual justification rightly stated containing a true narrative of a sad schism made in a church of Christ, at Kilby in Leicester-shire, proving, none of the elect are actually justified before faith.
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1696
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Wing A459; ESTC R3827
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Actual Justification RIGHTLY STATED CONTAINING A True NARRATIVE OF A SAD SCHISM Made in a Church of CHRIST at KILBY in LEICESTER-SHIRE PROVING none of the ELECT are Actually Justified before FAITH GAL. II. XVI We have Believed in Jesus Christ that we might be Justisied by the Faith of Christ c. LONDON Printed by B. Harris in Maiden-Head-Court in Great East Ch ãâ¦ã and Sold by J. Marshal at the Bible in Grace-church street 1696. THE INTRODUCTION Proving There is no Actual Justification or Actual Vnion with CHRIST before FAITH THose many Errors that abound among us is one of the sad Evils of these Times which tend to make our Dayes Perillous tho' I must Confess some of them are more Dangerous and Pernicious than others as the Socinian Erors that ut ãâ¦ã ly Destroy the Foundation of Christianity And evident it is That between the Socinian Arminian and Baxterian Errors on the âne hand and those called Antinomian Errors tho' I do not call them Antinomians on the other hand Christ seems to be again Crucified in his Holy Doctrin as in his Sacred Body he was Cruâified between two Thieves The Error that is here Confuted appertains to those last Menti ãâ¦ã ed in which you will find what hard Measure the Author hath met with from some of his Flock who charged him with False Do â ãâ¦ã rin but how Unjustly will appear in this Narrative The Point that he strives to Oppose is this Viz. That an Elect Person is not in actual Vnion with Christ nor actually Justified in God's Sight before Faith Or doth actually apprehend and apply the Righteousness and Merits of Christ by Faith to his own Soul 1. He doth not say Faith Justifies as 't is a Sacred Habit or Act ãâ¦ã ch less in respectâ of the Fruits and Effects of it 2. Nor that 't is the matter of our Justification but 't is said to Juâtify only in Respect of the Object Christ Jesus whom the Soul ap ãâ¦ã ehends or receives by Faith Christ's Righteousness only being the Material Cause of our Justification and the Imputation of it the Formal Cause thereof Which our Reverend Brother asserts is not Imputed unto any Adult Person tho' Elected to his actual Justification before he is Actually or Personally United to Jesus Christ aud therefore not in Actual Union with Christ and Justified from Eternity as some say nor from the Death of Christ as others say 3. He stedfastly Believes God's Election of particular Persons from Everlasting for whom he gave his own Son to Die And that the Election of the Father the Redemption of the Son and the Application and Sanctification of the Holy Ghost are of Equal extent 4. That Christ Dyed as the great Representive common Head Root and Surety of all the Elect doing and Suffering in their Room and Stead whatsoever he did and Suffered ãâã as their Head and Representative and that he hath made full Satisfaction to the Justice of God and answered all the demands of the Law for them So that all they for whom Christ dyed shall certainly be Saved as an act of Justice and Righteouiness as well as an Act of Sovereign Grace and Goodness 5. That Faith by which the Soul apprehends Christ is a Grace of the Spirit purchased by Christ and freely given to us as a sign of God's Eternal Love Moreover he and we with him distinguish or explain Union with Christ and Justification thus 1. That all the Chosen of God are Decretively Justified c. from Eternity 2. Vertually at the Death or rather at the Resurrection of our blessed Saviour 3. Yet that no Adult Elect Person is really and Actually in Vnion with Christ and Actually Justified before he doth Believe in him And so is transplanted out of the first Adam as a common Head and implanted into the second Adam It being impossible any should stand in or grow out of two cwo common Roots at one and the same time since all as considered Actually in the first are Dead and under Condemnation and all that are Actually in the Second are made Alive and brought into Justification and declared free for ever from Condemnation Rom 8. 1. If any man have not the Spirit of Christ the same is none of his That is Actually his tho' many of them may be in the Election of Grace As touching the Sins of the Elect before Faith we say they are charged upon them by the Law under which they remain till they Believe or are United by the Spirit unto their blessed Covenanting Head and are by the same Law with other Unbelievers under the Sentence of Condemnation tho' their Justification Pardon and Salvation is secured for them by God's eternal Election and in Christ by Vertue of his Covenant Transactions with the Father and as ãâ¦ã ed by his Blood and Merits As to the Sins of the Elect after Grace or Actual Union tho' ãâ¦ã ey are Required to Repent of them and may not have the Sense ãâ¦ã Pardon of them in in their own Consciences till then yet the ãâ¦ã lt of them is never Charged upon them Christ having born all ãâ¦ã Vindictive Wrath due to all their Sins as well those committed ãâ¦ã Faith as before they Believed otherwise it could not be said ãâ¦ã is no Condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus Rom. 8. ãâ¦ã Therefore whatsoever Mr. Coleman says about the Sins of Believers ãâ¦ã Repentance and Pardon he doth not Believe they are ever ãâ¦ã in a state of Condemnation Who shall lay any thing to the Charge of ãâ¦ã 's Elect that is such Elect ones that are united to Christ ãâ¦ã Justification is but one Act 't is never more nor less after we are ãâ¦ã d to Christ or are in a state of Grace Tho' Sanctification as ãâ¦ã s is a progressive Work yet so is not our Justification there can ãâ¦ã no breach made on that any more than in our Adoption once a Child ãâ¦ã ever a Child Now the Notions we oppose are these following ãâ¦ã 1. We say The Sins of all the Elect while they remain in Vnbe ãâ¦ã are charged upon them by the Law and that the Righteousness of ãâ¦ã rist is not actually imputed to them until they do believe in Jesus ãâ¦ã i st 'T is one thing for God to Purpose or Decree to discharge an ãâ¦ã t Sinner through Christ's perfect Righteousness and Satisfaction ãâ¦ã another thing for him actually to acquit discharge and pronounce ãâ¦ã Justified by the Application of Christ's Merits Now the asserters ãâ¦ã the contrary Notion do seem to say that neither God's Justice nor his ãâ¦ã y Law doth charge Sin on any Elect Person tho' under the power of Vnbelief and vile and profane Persons see Mr. Ayre Vindi ãâ¦ã Justificationes Gratuitae last Impression p. 94. 95. He asserts ãâ¦ã all the Elect before Conversion and Faith stand actually recon ãâ¦ã to God and Justified before him Page 45. Nay from âternity ãâ¦ã 31. Ans May we not find a