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cause_n	justification_n	justify_v	sanctification_n	1,666	5	10.7958	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64243	The true light shining in darkness and dispelling the mists of errour arising from the darkness of man's heart, &c. promoted by the prince of darkness against the truth of God; in the matter of our justification: shewing, that by the deeds of the law, or mans own righteousness, no flesh can or shall be justified in the sight of God. The first part. By Tho. Taylor, the meanest and unworthiest of the servants and ministers of Jesus Christ; and now pastor to a small congregational church in Cambridge.	Taylor, Thomas, 1618-1682.	1693 (1693)	Wing T559; ESTC R219692	113,014	241

by the Spirit of our God So that the same holy Spirit of God which applieth Christ to our Faith for righteousness and justification doth also apply Christ to us as and for our sanctification And every person that is truly justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus is also as truly sanctified by the Spirit and 't is as impossible for a justified person to be distitute of inherent Grace and Sanctification as it is for a man living in the body to be so without the Soul James 2.26 Nevertheless Justification and Sanctification Righteousness imputed and inherent are distinct and different things and must fall under a distinct consideration and must not cannot be confounded They differ as the cause and effect as the antecedent and consequent and though inherent Grace and Sanctification doth always accompany the person justified yet inherent Grace and Sanctification is not that Righteousness by or upon which any person is or can be justified in the sight of God For inherent Grace and Sanctification is no more can rise no higher than the writing of the Law in a mans heart and so it is described and set out by God himself Heb. 8.10 Quoted out of Jer. 31.33 I will put my Laws into their mind and write them in their hearts The work of grace inherent is but the writing of the Law in the heart and all Sanctification and Holiness is but the outward expression of this Law internally written in the Heart Now if a man could be justified in Gods sight by inherent Grace and Sanctification he might be justified by the Deeds and Works of the Law and that by imperfect Deeds and Works too for such is sanctification but the imperfect writing of the Law in the Heart and such are all even the highest attainments of inherent righteousness and acts of new and holy obedience in the Saints but imperfect Phil. 3.12 And Rom. 7.22 23 24 25. Now forasmuch as No flesh can be justified in his sight by the Deeds of the Law it is manifest and followeth by necessary ●●nsequence that no man can be justified by inherent sanctification and obedience seeing all inherent Sanctification and Obedience is but the writing of the Law in the Heart and the Deeds of that Law so written And that which some men have imagined and endeavoured to maintain that a believer is justified in the sight of God by Evangelical righteousness i. e. his sincere obedience or obedience of Faith And that having obtained remission of sins through Faith in Christs blood his Sincere or Evangelical obedience is accepted of God as if it were perfect will plainly appear to be a false and unsound assertion and most contrary to the truth of the Gospel for although both parts of this assertion be true in sensu divisio i. e. in their different sense and with respect to the different matters to which they do relate yet in sensu conjuncto as they are confounded and referred to one and the same matter they are utterly false and corrupt as namely That a believer is justified by Evangelical righteousness is a blessed truth if referred to the right subject and matter of justifying righteousness which the Gospel doth reveal But this righteousness then is no other than the righteousness of God i. e. the personal and perfect obedience and righteousness which Christ who is God Man hath performed for us and in our stead as the Second Adam and Head of the whole Church of the Elect And is therefore called The righteousness of God in opposition to all a mans own or inherent righteousness Rom. 10.3 4. Phil. 3.9 And that this is the only Evangelical righteousness i. e. that only Righteousness which the Gospel doth reveal For Justification is clear from Rom. 1.16 17. I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto Salvation to every one that believeth to the Jew first and also to the Greek For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from Faith to Faith as it is written the just shall Live by Faith i. e. not in his own but in the righteousness or another which is Jesus Christ Who is the end of the Law for righteousness to every one that believeth Rom. 10.4 But if you will understand Evangelical righteousness of and refer it to inherent grace and sanctification then it is utterly false for then a man is justified by the Law and the Deeds of it Seeing inherent Grace and Sanctification is no other as hath been already shewed And again as to the other part of this Assertion namely that God doth accept the sincere Obedience of a Believer as if it were perfect is also a blessed truth if you refer it to Sanctification only but if you refer it to Justification it is utterly false for no Righteousness of Man is or can be accepted of God as the matter of his Justification in his sight as hath been already proved for that were for a Man to be justified by the Works of the Law or his own Righteousness which is contrary to the Scriptures Now therefore the sum of the matter is that no Righteousness can be mentioned or accepted of God in Justification but the Righteousness of Christ only and although Inherent Righteousness namely Sanctification of Heart and Holiness of Life in a Believer is accepted of God through Christ as if it were perfect yet 't is so accepted as the truth and matter of his Sanctification but not as the matter of his Justification wherein none but Christ and his Righteousness can or ought to be mentioned Use 2. Let the consideration of this truth caution and warn every man to beware and take heed how he goeth about directly or indirectly to establish his own Righteousness or to seek Righteousness in and of himself by the Deeds and Works of the Law i. e. by his own inherent qualifications and internal or external acts of Obedience and so become disobedient and not submit himself to the Righteousness of God by Faith in Christ. The carnal Jews of old called Israel fell under this woful mistake Rom. 9.31 32. But Israel which followed after the Law of Righteousness hath not attained to the Law of Righteousness wherefore because they sought it not by Faith but as it were by the Works of the Law for they stumbled at that stumbling-stone they followed after the Law of Righteousness i. e. they served God instantly day and night as Acts 26.7 they attended to all the services of the Law in Sacrifices and costly Offerings and toilsom as well as chargeable observances in which they spared no cost nor pains but continued day and night and that with zeal and fervency for so was that Service carried on by Sacrifices and Offerings of divers sorts and kinds which were day and night made and some of them continually before the Lord and when the old were 〈◊〉 moved new were brought in and placed 〈◊〉 their room so that there was no vacancy