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cause_n	imputation_n	justification_n	righteousness_n	3,015	5	7.9076	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26879	The catechizing of families a teacher of housholders how to teach their housholds : useful also to school-masters and tutors of youth : for those that are past the common small chatechisms [sic], and would grow to a more rooted faith, and to the fuller understanding of all that is commonly needful to a safe, holy comfortable and profitable life / written by Richard Baxter ...	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1683 (1683)	Wing B1205; ESTC R22783	252,758	464

punishment of loss and sense Q. 4. Doth not God forgive us the Guilt of the fault as well as the Dueness of Punishment A. Yes for th●se are all one in several Words To forgive the sin and to acquit from Dueness of punishment for that sin are the same thing God doth not Repute or Judge us to be such as never sinned for that were to judge fasly Nor doth he judge that our sin is not related to us as the Actors for that 's impossible Nor doth he judge that our sin did not deserve punishment But only that the deserved punishment is forgiven for the Merits of Christ's Righteousness and Sacrifice Q. 5. Is not Iustification and Forgiveness of Sin all One A. To be Justified 1. Sometimes signifieth to be Made Iust and Iustifiable in Iudgment And then it sometimes includeth both the Gift of Saving Faith and Repentance and the Gift of Pardon and of Right to Life Everlasting And sometime it presupposeth Faith and Repentance given and signifieth the annexed Gift of Pardon and Life 2. Sometime it signifieth Gods Justifying us by his Sentence in Judgment which containeth both the justifying of our Right to Impunity and Salvation and the Justifying our Faith and Holiness as sincere which are the Conditions of our Right 3. And sometimes to Justifie us is to use us as just Men. And as long as we understand the Matter thus signified by Pardoning and Justifying we must not strive about words so variously used Q. 6. But if Christ's perfect Righteousness Habitual and Actual be Our own Righteousness by God's Imputation how can we need a Pardon of Sin when we were perfectly obedient in Christ A. We could not possibly be pardoned as Sinners if God reputed us to have fulfilled all Righteousness in Christ and so to be no Sinners Therefore it is no such Imputation that must be affirmed But God justly reputeth Christ's Holiness and Righteousness active and passive dignified by his Divinity to be fully Meritorious of our Pardon Justification and Salvation And so it is Ours and Imputed as the true Meritorious Cause of our Righteousness which consisteth in our Right to Pardon and Salvation Q. 7. Is Pardon perfect in this Life and all punishment remitted at Once A. No 1. The punishment denounced in God's Sentence of Eve and Adam is not wholly forgiven The Curse on the Ground the Womans Sorrows the pain and stroke of Death 2. Temporal correcting punishments are not all forgiven 3. Some measure of Sin is penally permitted in us 4. The want of more Holiness and help of Gods Spirit and Communion with God is to all of us a fore punishment 5. The Permission of many Temptations from Devils and Men are punishments specially when they prevail to hainous sinning 6. To be so long kept out of Heaven and to lie after in the Grave are punishments Sure few Men believe that Pardon is here perfect that feel any of these 7. And it is not perfect till we are Justified before the World and put in possession of Salvation That 's the perfect Pardon Q. 8. But some say that Chastisements are no punishments A. They are not Damning destructive punishments but they are Chastising punishments For they are evil to Nature inflicted by Fatherly Correcting Iustice for Sin Q. 9. Is that an Evil which alwayes bringeth greater Good A. It is no such Evil as Sinners should repine at But ask any of that Opinion under the Stone o● other tormenting Disease or if he must die as a Malefactor whether it be not a Natural evil If there be no Evil in it why doth he groan under it Why doth he pray against it Or use Physick or other remedies Why is he offended at those that hurt him Had he not rather have his Holiness and Salvation without torment Prisons c. than with them 2. But it is not true that all the punishments of such as are saved make them better some are permitted to fall into hainous Sin and to decline in their Faith Love and Obedience and to die worse than once they were and so to have a less Degree of Glory whe● they have been hurtful Scandals in the World And is there no harm in all this Nothing is perfect i● this imperfect World Q. 10. But how is Christ's Merits and Satisfaction perfect then A. That 's perfect which is perfectly fitted to it's use It was not a use that Christ ever intended to Pardon all temporal Correcting punishment no● to make each Believer perfect the first hour Th● our greatest Sins should go unpunished is againe Christs will and Kingly Government and the Natur● of his Salvation And his Righteousness and Satisfaction are not intended against himself Q. 11. What sins are pardoned Is it all or but some A. All sin is pardoned though the Pardon be not perfect at first to all true penitent Believers But final Impenitence unbelief and unholiness never had a Pardon purchased or offered But that which is not final is forgiven Yea no sin is actually forgiven as to the everlasting punishment to final Impenitents and Unbelievers Q. 12. Are sins pardoned before they are committed A. If you call the meer purpose or purchase a Pardon unfitly or if you speak but of the General Act of Oblivion which pardoneth all Men on Condition that they penitently and believingly accept it so sins to come are pardoned But not to strive about words no one hath any actual proper Pardon for any sin before it is commited for it 's no sin and so no pardoned sin Q. 13. When is it that sin is pardoned A. God's purpose is Eternal The conditional Pardon was made when the Covenant of Grace was made Some Degrees of punishment God remitteth by common and preparatory Grace But saving Pardon none receive at Age till they Believe nor are they Justified Q. 14. Why do we pray for Pardon daily when sin is already pardoned A. 1. I told you sin is not pardoned when it is no sin we sin daily and therefore must have daily pardon And this also proveth that Pardon and Justification are not perfect before Death because there are more sins still to be pardoned 2. And we pray for the Continuance of the Pardon we have and for removal of punishments Q. 15. Is this the meaning of this Article that I believe that my own sins are actually forgiven as a Divine Revealation A. The meaning is 1. That by Christ a certain Degree of punishment is taken off from all Mankind and they are not dealt with according to the rigor of the Law of Innocent Nature 2. And that a conditional Pardon is given to all in the new Covenant so far as it is revealed 3. And that this Pardon becometh actual to every one when he penitently and believingly consenteth to the Baptismal Covenant with Christ. 4. And that this Pardon is offered to me as well as others and shall be mine if I be