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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	abraham_n	faith_n	trivial_a	36	3	16.7456	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50426	St. Paul's travailing pangs, with his legal-Galatians, or, A treatise of justification wherein these two dissertions are chiefly evinced viz. 1. That justification is not by the law, but by faith, 2. That yet men are generally prone to seek justification by the law : together with several characters assigned of a legal and evangical spirit : to which is added (by way of appendix) the manner of transferring justification from the law to faith / by Zach. Mayne ...	Mayne, Zachary, 1631-1694.	1662 (1662)	Wing M1485; ESTC R4815	251,017	422

and ended immediately upon our believing but a continued act which though it be in its kinde compleat from the first yet is it still in doing till the final Justification at the Judgment day Pag. 303. Abraham was justified long before Isaac was offered yet Justification being a continued act God is still justifying and the Gospel still justifying and Abraham's Justification was not ended before Isaac was offered nor then neither and therefore was then in a proper sense said to be justified when he offered up Isaac these latter expressions which I add are full to Mr Baxter's sense in that place It is all one in my minde whether we use the word repeated or continued when we apply them to Justification for I think an act can be no otherwise continued but by repetition The best sim●le of an act continued is a mathematical Line which they say is fluxus punctorum and yet points have no other continuity but by repetition I know a learned man that answers this by distinguishing upon Justification telling us that Justification may be taken either for Universal pardon of sins which is done at first believing or else it is taken for divine approbation the first he saith viz. General pardon is done but once but acts of approbation may be frequented as here they were upon Abraham and so he said to be justified twice though he kept his standing in grace betwixt the two acts of his Justification Now I do not deny that there are these two things in Justification viz. Pardon and Approbation but since pardon of particular sins is often repeated as well as acts of Approbation therefore methinks Justification may well be said to be repeated in both these parts of it though I alwaies hold that the first act of Universal pardon is the most famous Quest 2. about Iu●ification For what ●cts weare justified So much for the first Question about the time of Justification Now for the second Question proposed which was this For what act or acts is a person justified I answer first generally for the acts of faith primarily for the other good actions or good works secondarily but more particularly I shall answer first negatively 1 Negatively A man is not justified only for that act of fa●th which respects the death and blood of Christ A man is not justified only for that act of faith which respects the death and blood of Christ and the reason is evident for that Justification in the Scripture is applyed to other acts of faith besides this Abraham was justified for his faith in the power of God that he would give him a Son when he and Sarah were both old Rom. 4.16 17 18. Who against hope believed in hope that he might become the Father of many Nations ver 21. Being fully perswaded that what he had promised he was ABLE also to perform and THEREFORE it was imputed to him for Righteousness So again there was another justifying act of his faith when he being commanded of God offered up his son Isaac that is did as good as offer him up shewed his true willingness and readiness to it the knise was at his Son's throat and this act of faith is said to be imputed to him for righteousness Jam. 2.23 Now neither of these acts of faith are said to be in the blood of Christ and yet are said by the Scripture to be justifying acts If it be objected that these acts of Abrahams faith had respect to Christ who was the promised seed as well as Isaac Object Abrahams faith had respect to Christ and that his sacrificing Isaac shewed his faith in the sacrifice of Christ I answer 1. I deny not but Abraham saw Christ's day by faith and rejoyced 2. How farr Abraham saw Chrift's death and offering I cannot say But 3. whatever was the knowledge or faith of Abraham concerning Christ these answers are ●at trivial in the present case for the Scriptures lay the stress of Gods approving or justifying Abraham upon his faith in the power of God at least they do openly referr Justification to this faith of his that God could give him a Son notwithstanding the deadness of his own body and the deadness of Sarah 's womb and then that he was able to raise him from the dead after that he had offered him up and so to raise a great Nation out of him Heb. 19.11 compared with James 2.21 23. which was only or especially an act of faith in the power of God and these men impertinently carry it to somewhat else which is uncertain if not untrue I shall insist only upon one more act of faith which was justifying and yet was not chiefly consisting of a respect unto the blood of Christ if it had that at all in it and it is the faith of Noah Heb. 11.7 By faith Noah being warned of God of things not seen as yet moved with fear prepared an Ark to the saving of his house BY WHICH he condemned the world and BECAME HEIR OF THE RIG HTEOUSNESS WHICH IS BY FAITH Here was a work of Faith in the threatning of a Flood and precept of building of an Ark and the stress of his Justification is chiefly laid upon his fear of Gods judgments and faithfull obedience to the command of building an Ark which proceeded from a firm belief of the threatning and BY IT is said to become an heir of the righteousness which is by faith I might likewise instance in the act of Rahab's faith which is said to be justifying James 2 8● seems to have been only this as appears by the story that she received the Spyes and trusted in Gods power for their and her deliverance and in the faith of Phineas who had such a couragious zealous faith that he killed a Prince and a Princess at once with his own hand for committing lewdness and this is said to be accounted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore Psal 6.31 but I shall mention no more But thus you see that there are other acts of faith unto which justification is imputed as well as the act of faith in Christs blood therefore that is not the only act of justifying faith as such If it be objected as it may well be that these are instances of justifying faith in the dayes of the Old Testament when faith in the blood of Christ was not so necessary but now that faith in the blood of Christ is necessary that is the only justifying act I answer 1. That for those men that are most zealous for the opinion That faith as directed to the death and blood of Christ is the only act of faith as justifying they hold that faith in Christ was as necessary under the Old Testament unto salvation as it is now and unto these I suppose the instances of faith as justifying in other acts prove pertinently enough That faith in the blood of Christ is not the only act of justifying faith 2. I affirm