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A91793	Justification by Christ alone, a fountaine of life and comfort, declaring that the whole worke of mans salvation was accomplished by Jesus Christ upon the crosse, in that he tooke away & healed all his, from all sinnes, and presented them to God holy without fault in his sight. And the objections against this are answered, for the consolation of such as beleive; & that they may not ascribe that which is proper to Christs preistly office, to their beleiving. / By Samuel Richardson.	Richardson, Samuel, fl. 1643-1658.; Kiffin, William, 1616-1701.	1647 (1647)	Wing R1408; Thomason E392_32; ESTC R201586	62,108	73

for that is the work of the Spir●●● as Rom. ● ●6 3. A man 〈…〉 the Lord and obey the voice of his Servant and yet he may walk in darknesse and see no light as appears Isa. 50. 10 11. 〈…〉 were not a beleever how doth 〈◊〉 appear that God is his God if sin be taken out of his 〈…〉 God is his God how doth 〈…〉 no light 〈◊〉 to see that all that Christ hath done is for 〈◊〉 and to see all sin taken our of the conscience is a great light 4. If the knowledge that a man is a beleever takes away 〈…〉 not away for it is o●e thing to 〈…〉 know I bele●ve as it is one thing to see 〈…〉 to know I see this latter is by a reflexion So by your reason it will follow that neither God nor Christ nor the Spirit nor faith doth not neither together nor apart justifie a sinner but the knowledge or taking sin out of the conscience which is assurance Christ is the Lambe that took away all sin 1 Joh. 1. 7. with Isa. 53. 6. 5. If assurance of justification be justification then a beleever 〈◊〉 be 〈…〉 his conscience yea he may be so clouded and diserted that he may not enjoy the assurance 〈…〉 doubt 〈…〉 or no thus it was with Heman Psal. 88 who yet was a beleever 6. It 〈…〉 it will fol●ow that 〈…〉 a man commits makes a man an 〈…〉 untill he doth 〈◊〉 ●ith to take ●in 〈◊〉 of his conscience and so a man shall be a justified man and an unjustified man and appear so to God in lesse then ten minutes because in lesse time he may sin greatly also it may lye heavy upon his conscience and greatly accuse him Thus it was with 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 c. Also by the 〈…〉 it will follow that those are unconverted and have no 〈◊〉 untill they have assurance and all sin is taken on of their conscience they remain unjusti●●ed persons and still in their sins and so there is no faith but assurance and yet assurance is no faith at all For faith and assurance are two things as appears We beleeve and are sure Joh. 6 68 69. it is an error therefore to think men must beleeve and be assured of remission of sins to the end they may be remitted Thus in placing justification to consist in assurance many of the children of God who is yet enjoy not assurance but walk in darknesse and see no light are concluded to be in their sine unjustified persons which is contrary to the Scriptures Justification in the conscience is not justification i● self but onely the knowledge of it which is necessary to 〈…〉 depends not upon our knowledge of it nor assurance of it that which saves us 〈◊〉 us and that which 〈…〉 and that is onely the Lord Jesus Christ who is our justification and salvation and all in all An Answer to a Treatise intituled Sins suffered for but not remitted c. by Mr. HUET and some others YOu say Man is delivered from the curse of the Law c. in the time of his justification We say the same onely the difference betwixt us is when the time of Justification is it seems by your discourse you judge that time to be after we beleeve we judge that we were justified by Christ upon the Crosse Our Reasons you may see in this Treatise You speak of judgements and punishments of sin but we desire you to prove if you can that Christ hath not made satisfaction for the sins of the elect or that God doth inflict any thing upon his people for sin in anger or revenge for to suffer by way of satisfaction if you say not this you say nothing against us We say that that which is in it self a great plague and judgement is sent in love to them and is a mercy to them as appears Psal. 119. 11. Rom. 8. 28. Heb. 12. 5. to 12. You say that sin was not before the ●inning person had a being and was fastned to his soul c. Ans. It seems by your words that sin was not till we were born c. But if our sins cannot be considered in no sence to have a being till we be born then before we were born we had no sin and then when Christ dyed he did not bear any of our sins because they were not And how can it be just that Christ should be punished for that which was not and if Christ did not the● bear our sins as Isa. 53. 4 5 6 11. we cannot be saved for Christ will dye no more and without his blood there is no remission Heb. 9. Obj. By faith we receive pardon therefore we are not pardoned before we sin Ans. We grant no man doth receive it till he beleeve yet sin was destroyed and blotted out before we beleeve as I have proved in this Treatise Obj. The Advocate hath nothing to do for us concerning sin except we commit it 1 Joh. 2. 2. Ans. We beleeve Christ hath finished this work before we were born as the Scriptures declare Ob. After sin be committed Christ doth advocate for us Ans. This is answered afore p● 12. Ob. We put a difference between the Covenant and the performance of it Ans. So do we and we say that when Christ dyed he performed the conditions of the Covenant Ob. Heaven was then pu●chased and they may as well say they have that now as pardon of sin before it be committed Ans. You may as well say seeing we have not all that was purchased as heaven although we beleeve therefore we have no pardon of sin The Scripture saith He washed away our sins in his blood Rev. 1. 5. c. But the Scripture doth not say we are glorified in his blood upon the Crosse and therefore the reason is not the same Ob. The Popes Bull was in that manner sins past present and to come but the Scriptures speak onely of sins past Rom. 3. 25. Ans. Your Exposition is a meer bull and quite besides the Scripture as I have proved in the Answer of this Objection pag. 14. Ob. We put a difference between the Salve in the Chir●●gions box and the healing of the wound c. Ans. So do we yet we say when Christ was upon the Crosse He 〈◊〉 sins and by whose stripes we are healed Isa. 53. 1 Pet. 1. 24. Ob. We beleeve that the fountain is set open to wash in because some whose sins Christ bore upon the Crosse are yet unwashed Z●ch 13. 1. Ans. Z●ch 13. 1. is a prophesie of Christ to come at which time he should wash away the ●ins of his people and this Christ did when he shed his blood Rev. 1. 5. And if our fine were not then washed away we cannot be saved But they are not now to be washed away See pag. 7 8. Obj We beleeve that Christ doth the work upon his 〈◊〉 purifying them as o●ten as they 〈◊〉 be 〈◊〉 with sin

just and righteous but if they were not made just by Christ upon his Crosse before will it not follow that he justifieth the wicked which he saith is abomination to him Prov. 17. 15. for they must either be just or wicked if just then the declaring them to be so by sentence did not make them just And if they were not just what were they but wicked is there a third state God hath said He will by no means clear the guilty Exod. 34. 7. 5. Because men are not just and righteous because they are declared to be so But they are declared to be so because they were so before Therefore such as God declares to be just they were made just justified in and by Christ and he looked upon them to be just as they were before he declared them to be so And no man may declare another to be just and innocent before he appear to be so Three things are essentiall to justification 1. Persons that need to be made just sinners a perfect man neither need nor can be made just 2. One that can and will make just and that none can do but God Ro● 8. 33. it 's God that justifieth 3. The means by which he must be made just and that is Christ By Jesus Christ Ephes. 1. 5. Through the redemption of Jesus Rom. 3. 24. Christ is God Hebt 1. 2. He hath redeemed us by his blood Rev. 5. 9. My righteous Servant shall justifie many Isa. 53. 11. Rom. 5. 10. He is our justification it self for he is our righteousnesse 1 Cor. 1. 30. Righteousnesse and justification are one Isaiah prophefied of Christ that he should justifie many Isa. 45. 25. which he fulfilled when he was made sin for us Isa. 53. 2 Cor. 5. 21. with 1 Pet. 1. 24. And this must needs be so for those who are made just or justified by satisfaction they are made just where the satisfaction is and that is in Christ 2 Cor. 5. 21. Rom. 3. 24. Phi. 3. 9. And seeing we were made in him perfectly righteous therefore perfectly just As in the first Adam we were made sinners so in the second Adam the elect were made righteous As by the first Adams disobedience we were made sinners so by the second Adams obedience all in him were made righteous Rom. 5. 14. to 20. And as Christ is the author and means and justification it self so he is the author of our salvation and the means and salvation it self as is above proved So that Christ is all in all Justification is first to be considered in the will of God sometimes called purpose counsell choice election predestination love the good pleasure of his will Ephes. 1. Rom. 9. Isa. 45. 10. Ephes. 3. 11. We may not seek no further to ask a reason of his will it had no cause going before to cause it to be or so to be if it had how can it be eternall and infinite surely it had no beginning And thus the elect are said to be saved before the world 2 Tim. 1. 9 10. And this is called justification Tit. 3. 4. 7. Then our life was hid with Christ in God Col. 3. 3. This is justification in purpose Secondly Justification is to be considered in the act or execution of it in the means of it when it was effected in and by the means viz Jesus Christ By his obedience did justifie many Rom. 5. 19. Isa. 53. 11. And now justification is actually done for there were all the elect then present considered in Christ Ephes. 1. 4. He comprehended all that were given to him See Joh 17. 2. 9. 6. 37 38 39. Rom. 11. 7. set apart Heb. 10. 10. As the Priest did bear the names of the children of Israel before the Lord Exod. 28. 21 c. so Christ a publick person did bear and represent all the names and persons that shall be saved that were given to him to justifie and save yea they were one with him Heb. 2. 11. Christ took not onely the nature of man but the persons of the elect else how did he answer the type Exod. 28. else how could he bear the sins of many if he bore not the sins of no persons and how did Christ wash us and present 〈◊〉 holy to God as he did Rev. 1. 5. Col. 1. Eph. 1. 5. If he did not present our persons Also if Christ took onely our nature the nature of all men being one and the same it will follow he did as much for all men as for one and that he bore not the sins of any man for the nature of man may be considered apart from the person of a man or else they know not what they say who affirm Christ took our nature but not the person of any Justification being accomplished by Christ it is his good pleasure to reveal the same to those to whom it belongs by his Spirit and Word and his people and ordinances all which hold forth and declare this his infinite love and free grace to their souls that so they may enjoy the comfort of it The effect of this revelation of love c. begets love in the soul to God and carries the soul out of it self it's own life it's righteousnesse to Christ and his righteousnesse looking to him as all in all and so to set him above all Now the soul falls into admiration of free love free grace highly pricing it is satisfied in it and thankfull for it and now the soul according to the revelation of this love c. so it 's filled with love to God peace and joy in God c. So he submits to Christs yoke obeys him and suffers for him now he follows God ●●re abundantly and freely then ever before So then the cause of our salvation or justification it 1. The love of God the good pleasure of his will this is called the efficient cause of our salvation 2. The materiall and instrumentall cause is Jesus Christ by his death in dying for us 3. The 〈◊〉 all cause is the end why God those and saved us that was his glory to the praise of the glory of his grace The work being accomplished The Spirit reveals it is done for him Rom. 8. 1● saith beleeves it 's done for him and receives it 〈◊〉 26. 28. good wor● declare that it 's done for 〈◊〉 Jam. 2. 24. Justification 〈◊〉 where but in the conscience and it is a taking of 〈…〉 of the conscience therefore untill sin be taken out of the conscience men are not justified Justification to be placed in Christ where it i● 〈◊〉 Epistle● 2. If 〈…〉 taking sin out of the conscience then faith doth not 〈◊〉 because it doth not take sin out of the conscience no nor assure the conscience that he is 〈◊〉 childe of God to speak strictly

JUSTIFICATION BY CHRIST ALONE A Fountaine of life and comfort Declaring that the whole worke of mans salvation was accomplished by Jesus Christ upon the crosse in that he tooke away healed all his from all sinnes and presented them to God holy without fault in his sight And the Objections against this are Answered for the consolation of such as beleive that they may not ascribe that which is proper to Christs Preistly Office to their beleiving Isa. 53. 11. By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justifie many for he shall beare their iniquities Joh. 19. 28. 30. Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished that the Scripture might be fulfilled he said it is finished and he bowed his head and gave up the ghost Col. 21. 22. In the body of his flesh through death to make you holy and unblamable and without fault in his sight Rom. 5. 9. Being justified by his bloud Cant. 4. 7. Thou art all faire my love there is no spot in thee By Samuel Richardson LONDON Printed by M. S. are to be sould by Hannah Allen at the signe of the Crowne in Popes-head-Alley And George Whitington at the Anchor neere the Royall-Exchange 1647. TO ALL THAT LOVE THE LORD JESUS In SINCERITY and truth Heires of the purchased Possession in Christ Jesus Who hath loved us and washed away our sins in his owne blood Grace and Peace be multiplyed DEarly beloved brethren These are the last times wherein iniquity abounds and the love of many waxeth cold so as wee are ready to misconst●re and take all things in the worst part from God or man For want of love The times are perilous I cannot but desire you before I goe hence That yee keepe your selves pure from the error of the wicked and from Idoles and to love one another And that you may the better doe it 1. Keepe to and hold fast the wholesome Pattern of sound words which are expressed in the holy Scriptures 1 Tim. 6. 3. and 4. 6. For if yee come once to forsake the words and exp●●ssions of Christ you will quickly lose the Truth of Christ and receive error instead of Truth I cannot but beleive when the Apostle condemnes preaching Christ in wisdome of words 1. Cor. 2. 17. 8. 24. He mainely strikes at holding out the Truth in strange curious words which tend to render men excellent a man of great parts and incomes so this also suites with the fleshly humors of the hearers and to pussell their understandings as Circumlocution Intrinsicall c. Which is no other to the common people then a strange Language which they understand not Also to take heed that you deny not the truth of the Letter of the Scriptures as the manner of some is nor so to rest in the letter as to come short of the sense and meaning of it If the first be admitted we may burne the Bible For if it be not true what shall wee doe with it If some of it be false why not the rest also And then who can tell what is truth And so we● vent●●● our soules upon uncertainties this is dishonourable to Christ and uncomfortable and to be abhorred by all and is the onely way to bring in and defend all errors on the other side if wee affirme that the minde of God is so expressed in the letter in so many words as he that can reade may see it is to deny any Interpretation of Scripture and to deny them to be a Mystery But without controversie great is the Mysterie of godlinesse and he that observes the variety of expressions in Scripture concerning one thing may well confesse that unlesse the holy Spirit reveale to us the deepe things of God wee cannot knowe them therefore take great heed you receive not any thing for truth unlesse for the substance of it it clearly appeare in the Scripture which is to be our Rule both for Doctrine and manners Some place justification to be onely in the Conscience but wee place it onely in Christ where it is and to whome it belongs Justification consists in takeing away of sinne and none but Christ can doe that justification acceptation are one For without justification there is no acceptation and seeing wee are accepted in Christ wee are justified in him If our justification be a spirituall blessing as it is then it is in Christ where all spirituall blessings are Blessed be God who hath blessed us with all spirituall blessings in Christ Ephes. 13. Where our redemption and righteousnesse is there is our justification for righteousnesse and justification are one and this wee have not in our selves but in Christ who is made unto us of God wisdome righteousnesse 1 Cor. 1. 30. In whome wee have redemption Col. 1. 14. Our justification is a part of our compleatnesse Therefore where wee are compleate there we are justified but wee are not compleate in our selves but in him Col. 2. 10. If all things on which depends our happynesse were accomplished Joh. 19 28. then was our justification also for without that no man coulde be saved This mystery of Christ is a great mystery oh meditate and dive as deep as you are able into this mystery the benefit will be great and sweet The more I am exercised herein the more I see into it and injoy justification by Christ alone and more clearely see our beleiving cannot justifie us yet I deny no● but the power to beleive i● from the Spirit which is the life of motion in faith the life of faith is the life of Christ as I have treated else where what faith is and what it doth and wherein it differes from presumption c. God hath given faith to his to know assent and beleive the Truth Heb. 11. 3 Acts 28. 24. To incourage us to goe to God for all wee need Acts 26. 18. To inable us to suffer for Christ Heb. 11. To conquer enemies Ephes. 6. 16. To make our afflictions easie to beare to in able us to obey Rom. 15. To cleave to God Acts 11. 23. To his word Psal. 119. 30 31. To hope in his mercy Psal. 147. 11. To depend upon Jesus Christ alone for life and salvation what more necessary and usefull in this life then faith There is a light in faith and as our blind eyes and da●ke understandings are inlightned Ephes. 1. 18. and 5. 13. so accordingly wee are filled with the fulnesse of God Ephes 5. 19. Fulnesse of knowledge is that perfection wee are to presse after Phil. 3. 12. 17. Col. 2. 2. 4 12. This sight shewes us our justification to be in Christ alone And the seeking a further measure of knowledge is a seeking to be justified Gal. 2. 17. Because this knowledge is that which justifieth our Consciences Also wee confesse that he that beleives not hath no knowledge of any justification all that are without faith they are visiblely in a perishing state there is not the least appearance to the