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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45151	Peaceable disquisitions which treat of the natural and spiritual man, preaching with the demonstration of the Spirit, praying by the Spirit, assurance, the Arminian grace, possibility of heathens salvation, the reconciliation of Paul and James, the imputation of Christ's righteousness, with other incident matters : in some animadversions on a discourse writ against Dr. Owen's Book of the Holy Spirit / by John Humfrey ...	Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.	1678 (1678)	Wing H3702; ESTC R21932	66,481	118

us upon that condition which through the Spirit given for the Application we perform and Christ's Righteousness and Merits being ours in regard to these effects it may be said to be imputed to us if our Divines please If there be conceived any Commutation with Christ of his Righteousness for our sins or any imputation of it unto us any otherwise than thus in regard to the effects I understand it not The principal effect of Christ's Righteousness and Sacrifice which both together making up satisfaction to God for man's sin God is reconciled and comes to new terms is the obtaining the Law of Grace for us according to which we may be righteous or made the Righteousness of God in Christ in the Scripture phrase See my Middle Paper of the Covenants in the six first leaves and upon this Righteousness as the condition performed all other of the effects or benefits depend In the Application it is true that we have the benefits but from whence do they come It is not from any act of ours we are not our own Benefactors nor from any work of the Spirit That we do is the performing the condition and that the Spirit does is the supplying us with grace to do it But the condition is not the cause of the benefits only causa sine qua non which being put the benefits flow to us by vertue of the Impetration from the merit of what Christ hath done Many saies Mr. Truman make this their strong hold that faith alone is the receptive grace and not repentance and sincere obedience but there is no such thing as receiving Righteousness Justification Pardon Justification right to Heaven Righteousness cometh on men The free gift came upon all to Justification By the offence of one judgment came upon all to condemnation As condemnation cometh upon men without any act of receiving it it is a resultancy from the Law upon disobedience So Justification right to Heaven is a resultancy from a Law-promise the condition being performed This I look on not only as pretty but in regard to what I apply it very solid It is from the Covenant-promise or through the Law of grace immediately and so from the Impetration of Christ and his Merits at last or ultimately that the benefits come on us and all that we do towards it is only our performing the condition Cometh this blessedness then on the Circumcision only or on the Vncircumcision also It is to be observed a little farther that when the Scripture speaks any thing of this Commutation we find it attributed only to God and Christ and that as a thing past and done and never to the work of the Spirit which is still a doing It is said therefore that the Lord hath laid the iniquities of us all or made all our sins to meet on Christ in the person of the Father and that Christ took them bare our sins with the like expressions But I read nor a word of such a work as is still to be done which the Holy Ghost's were if it belonged to him It must be conceived therefore that God and Christ in their everlasting transactions between them about the redemption of Man agreed upon this matter of Commutation which however the Dr. expresses it in the root is Christ's undertaking to stand in our stead according to the Law of his Mediation which Law he performing this business actually was accomplished and we have the It is finished declared on the Cross So that be it whatsoever it will it does go or did go into the Impetration it cannot go into the Application of our Repemplion To come home then quite to the Dr. How Christ's Righteousness is imputed to us in regard to the Impetration of the benefits we have from him or how it is made ours in regard to the Effects impetrated as those effects are purchased by it upon condition I understand but how it is imputed to us or made ours in the Application by the Spirit in any effect or in the effect of Justification any otherwise than other effects I have had my eyes opened so long about this point as I begin to see at last with much adoe nothing of it Adoption Salvation and other benefits as well as Justification are effects of Christ's Righteousness or of Christ's purchase and when we believe and perform the condition we receive Adoption and have a right to Salvation as well as to be Justified Adoption is by faith Salvation by faith Justification by faith As faith concurs to the one it does to the other Here only is the deceit Justification is Gods accounting a person righteous and this being upon the account of Christs righteousness the understanding is entangled as if we were made righteous by his righteousness in some way as must render us to be justified otherwise by it than saved There never was any dispute about the imputation of Christs righteousness to our Adoption and Salvation and yet it is a certain truth that it is imputed to us in regard to these effects as in regard to Justification The righteousness of Christ then does concur to our Adoption Salvation sub genere causae efficientis as the meritorious procuring cause of them if it concur any otherwise unto Justification that is sub genere causae formalis also as the formal reason no less than the procuring cause of it it is a matter I must confess of my Admiration and I must crave of the Doctor farther instruction or the ingenuity to accept this slender endeavour of mine for his own satisfaction And the third Captain of fifty went up and came and bowed before Elijah and besought him and said unto him O man of God I pray thee And he arose and went down with him I have many other thoughts in my mind to offer the Doctor or this Author which I will forbear for I remember that the Gentleman hath a second part to come out that he intends more particularly against the Doctor I will therefore stay a while upon such matters that are already proposed and see if he performs his intention and it will be then time enough if it be like also to do good and be fit to confer a few more notions with him For I like my man much for his Natural parts and Free-Divinity as I must note him a little for deficient in his Ethicks and Civility so long as he hath to do with such an Adversary I cannot commend him for this usage of the Doctor who is one I must confess for my own part that I value for his Worth I love for his Courtesie I am pleased with for his Candour and I think my self happy if at any time I get but a little of his Company THE END READER LEast I should not have occasion or least I should not take it if I have to write again upon these matters I must tell you of some things I find wanting I have not commended this Ingenious Person for his very