Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
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
A35010	A just and lawful tryal of the Foxonian chief priests a perfect proceeding against them and they condemn'd out of their own ancient testimonies ...	Crisp, Thomas, 17th cent.	1697 (1697)	Wing C6952; ESTC R24790	97,947	145

the holy Lives and Works of Saints are not excluded The thirteenth Query Is the Righteousness wrought by the Saints every way answerable to the Justice of God I say Nay They answer Is there any Righteousness but that of Jesus Christ And is not that every way answerable to the Justice of God The Righteousness of Christ we own and witness hereby squintingly making the Saints obedience to be the Satisfaction to Gods Justice and so Christ dyed in vain unless as they say he was a Figure or Example or as somtimes they imply to take away the guilt of Adam's Act. The fourteenth Query Is none accounted Righteous in God's sight in whom there is any failing or doth not fulfil the Law and answer every Demand of Justice I answer Yea in and for Christ's sake But they say God doth not accept any where there is any failing or that doth not fulfil the Law and answer every Demand of Justice But this is the directest and plainest Answer I find of all the twenty By this Answer as by some of the former they seem to me to exclude God's Mercy in forgiving or Pardoning Sin and also make void or useless the Suffering Blood and Death of our Lord Jesus on the Cross without us for if they can and do as their Answer implies fulfil the Law and answer every Demand of Justice and have not any failing in them what need have they of Forgiveness or of Christ's Death and Blood as a Sacrifice for them or to sanctifie them For if I am able to pay my own Debts I have no need of another to do it for me nay if I am not if another is able and willing if my Creditor will not or doth not accept his Payment for me then I am not benefitted as their Answer implies But the first part of their Answer seems to make useless or that there is no need of the latter for if as they say God doth not accept any where there is any failing then what hath Justice to do with such For the Law is not for the Righteous but for Sinners Also hereby they maintain as rigid a Satisfaction as any whom they pretend to oppose and the difference between them and the Protestant Ministers is chiefly about the Person who makes the Satisfaction or answers the Demands of Justice The Quakers imply the Sinner Man for it is such is intended in the Query by the word any any Man or Person and the Protestants make our Lord Jesus of Nazareth as he was both God and Man in one Person without us to be He who fulfils the Law and Answers the Demands of Justice for us and in our stead But if as they imply by their Answer they have no failing they may appear boldly without an Advocate or Mediator for that within them is the only Principle and Foundation and admits not of any other as they say no not the Blood nor Offering of the Body of Jesus of Nazareth shed outwardly on the Cross but that within even their not having any failing in them but answering every Demand of Justice and their fulfilling the Law themselves and not our Christ or our Lord Jesus for them is their Intercessor Mediator and Reconciler and Christ within them and they as aforesaid have no need of him or any thing of his on that account The fifteenth Query Is a Soul Justified by the Non-Imputation of Sin and the Imputation of the Righteousness of the Person of Christ Or by a Righteousness wrought by Christ in the Person c. I say Not by that wrought in the Person but by the non-Non-Imputation or not charging the Sin but by the Imputation of the Personal Righteousness of Christ received or laid hold on by a living Faith They Answer I own no Righteousness but what is of Christ and wrought by him plainly implying it 's that wrought in the Saints is the procuring Cause of Justification and not Christ's Personal Obedience and Sufferings for they say I own no Righteousness but that of Christ wrought by him it 's very squinting but if you consider the terms in the Query Wrought by him in the Person Justified now you see their Answer hath that term Wrought by him altho' they leave out them words In the Person Justified yet their Answer implies that is their meaning else why do they rail so and say It 's a heap of Confusion from the bottomless Pit c The sixteenth Query is Is Christ in the Saints in respect of that Nature he suffered in at Jerusalem I say Nay understanding it the Manhood But they revile and answer nothing to purpose The seventeenth Query How may Christ be said to be in a Saint and not in a Reprobate I answer By a lively Faith Governing the whole Man and rendring the Faculties and Senses subject to him Body and Soul and Spirit being his and so he is not in the Reprobate But they rail and not answer The eighteenth Query Doth Christ now take on him our Flesh Doth not this Assumption cause such a perfection of the Godhead and Manhood that both are United into one Person I say No. But they answer Do'st thou limit Christ to Days in taking on him the form of a Servant Is not he now the same as ever he was The perfect Union with Christ we witness who is the same to day yesterday and for ever They squintingly imply That Christ and they be but one Person as in Jesus of Nazareth and they God and Man as he was for say they The Perfect Union we witness as farther appears For the Ministers say Far be it from us to think Christ is equally God incarnate in that Son of Mary and in all Saints This Fox falsly cites Great Mystery p. 22. but opposes and in answer says Fox The Scripture says He is the Everlasting Father and his Name is called The Emanuel God with us And their opposing this Doctrine and quoting it as an Error implies that they do believe that they have the same Union of or in their Natures as was in with or between the Divine Nature and Manhood of our Lord Jesus and therefore says that Pagan-like Foxonian Preacher Isaac Penington Doth not the Name belong to every Member as well as to the Head And Fox's opposing the Ministers and their now above Answer to this eighteenth Query implies the same That Jesus of Nazareth was no other ways Christ but as they be only more because he had more of the Spirit in him And thus it is that they own Christ as he was Man as they say that is as he was in all Ages and is now in them the Light and they one Spirit with him and he one with them as he was with all Saints in all Ages and so by that Oneness he was and is Man and they by the same Figure be Christ as appears by Fox's opposing and squintingly Answering to the Ministers and this their afore Answer to the Query And on charging them to