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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29501	The faith by which we are justified, in scripture-sense according to Scripture, opened, explained, and applied, on Rom. 5, I : in six sermons.	G. B. (George Bright), d. 1696.	1695 (1695)	Wing B4673; ESTC R36513	77,408	77

evil works passes uncontrolled unquestioned from hand to hand and no body but by faith disputes it if it comes by Tradition As you know the things that are but in fashion They run through not only those that make no profession of the Gospel but those that make a profession so Tradition runs through All. Now how shall we be Redeemed from this There is no way to be Redeemed from the common Evils that are done in the world but by the precious Blood of Jesus Christ And then In the Second place as I began to say Christ is the great Principle of them How can you walk in the ways of Holiness No way but by Jesus Christ being within us the Principle of those Holy Actions And therefore tho I say it is our Duty and we are condemned indeed most righteously in not Answering our Duty Yet still we cannot do the Holy Actions required of us but under a Purchase under a Price Ye are bought with a Price therefore glorify God as the Apostle saith And so we must have that mighty Principle I can do all things saith the Apostle through Christ that strengthens me And in John 15. Our Lord shews plainly that he is the Principle Without me saith he v. 5. ye can do nothing He had compared himself to the Vine and Believers to the Branches Now as the branch can do nothing without the Vine you know it cannot so our Souls can do nothing without Christ He is the great Principle of it And then In the Third place They are washed in the Blood of Jesus Christ And they are all made up in their Imperfections by the great Perfection of the Righteousness and Holiness of our Lord Jesus Christ this must necessarily be considered Take that Action of Abraham as the Apostle speaks he was Justified by the Offering of Isaac Naw I say That very Offering of Isaac was as it was Abraham's Act washed in the Blood of Jesus or else it had never been Accepted There were tho we cannot trace them yet God understands them such Corruptions adhering to this Holy Action of Abraham that if it had not been wash'd in the Blood of Christ it could not have stood before him Rahab sending away the Spies It was washed in the Blood of Christ Moses keeping the Passover and refusing to be called the Son of Pharaoh's Daughter all these they were wash'd in the Blood of Jesus or they could not have stood before God All the Repentance all the Holy Actions of the Best and most eminent of Christians they are wash'd in the Blood of Christ that they may be accepted And wherein they are found Light they are made up by the Righteousness of our Lord Jesus Christ The Righteousness of the Law is fulfilled So I understand that in Rom. 8. 4. It is fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit That is by Jesus Christ as the Apostle had said He condemns sin in the flesh viz. His Flesh his Sacrifice And so the Righteousness of the Law is fulfilled in us By all those that walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit And the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus it makes free from the Law of sin and Death VVhat is the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus But that perfect Righteousness and that perfect obedience of our Lord Jesus Christ even to the Sacrificing himself The fourth and last thing in which I would shew you that Jesus Christ is supremely to be considered by every Believer as the foundation of all his Holiness and the Acceptance of it is this That Jesus Christ is He through whom alone and through whose perfect Holinest God accounts us Holy This I confess is a Point that is not generally spoken of And it may seem to be something singular But I am fully perswaded of it That we do not only stand before God by Imputative Righteousness But we stand before him by imputative Holiness also That is not as iâ— there were no Holiness Inherent and Real in the Saints of Christ But their Holiness could not be counted Holiness if it were not for the Holiness of Jesus Christ I will not stand much upon it because I know it is a singular Apprehension Yet I would give you two Scriptures that do strongly perswade me that this is the very case Till we are brought into the Perfection of Holiness at the State of the Resurrection of the Dead which as I have formerly told you is either when Spirits go out of the Body or when all the Saints shall appear in the Resurrection then shall they be in a perfection of Inherent Holiness But while we are here in the World we are not in a state of Perfect Inherent inward Holiness And therefore Christ in that that 's the first Scripture that enclines me to this Apprehension 1 Cor. 1. 30. He is made unto us Wisdom and Righteousness and Sactification and Redemption Christ is as truly made to us Sactification as he is made Redemption or as he is made Righteousness or Wisdom in our first being brought home to God Therefore I say if he not our Sanctification our Sanctification could not be looked upon as Sanctification if it were not made Acceptable by the Holiness of Jesus Christ Another Scripture is that in the 7th to the Romans Saith the Apostle We bring forth Fruit unto Death in our selves He is speaking of Sanctification in Believers We bring forth Fruit unto Death In our selves But when we are Married unto another even to him who is raised from the Dead we bring forth Fruit unto God We cannot bring forth Fruit unto God which is certainly meant of Sanctification any other way but by being Married to another even to him who is raised from the Dead because the Resurrection of the Dead in all sense of Scripture is the Perfection of Holiness Till we therefore are in the State of being risen from the Dead being in Spirits separated as I have spoken or in Bodies of Glory we cannot bring forth Fruit unto God but we bring forth Fruit unto Death if we are not in Christ the great Husband who is risen from the Dead All our Holiness is made Perfect by his Holiness But then he brings us into that Perfection that every Saint is indeed perfectly Holy in the state of Spirit and state of a Body of Glory given to that Spirit that went out of the Body long it may be before accordlng to the several times in which the Saints of Christ have Dyed I come now to the Third and Last thing which I proposed in this Discourse And that is To shew you what the Sense of the Apostle James is for it seems to run very Counter to all the Doctrin of Free Justification by Faith and not by Works It seems a wonderful thing that the Spirit of God after it had said so much by Paul of being Justified by Faith without Works That the Spirit

Therefore the Fourth Particular is this That indeed if any one could frame a Notion of the Righteousness of Christ to be his Righteousness Or of the Blood and Death of Christ to be his for Justification and Pardon and clearing from sin If that Righteousness separated from Christ It would be no other to us and in us but as a Creature-Righteousness and as a self-Righteousness And for us to trust in it and to stay our selves upon it would be a trusting to our own Righteousness Therefore as it is in him a Spring and a Fountain There is the Life and there is the Glory of it I 'll give you but one Scripture Rom. 5. 17. Mark Here 's a Receiving abundance of Grace and of the gift of Righteousness Nothing can be more express than this A man takes in by Faith abundance of Grace and of the gift of Righteousness But now the Question is does he live by this receiving abundance of Grace and of the Gift of Righteousness No For the Apostle goes on He shall reign in Life by one Jesus Christ He shall not reign by abundance of Grace and of the gift of Righteousness which he receives simply and separately and distinct from Jesus Christ But he shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ Surely this Scripture does cut off all disputes and all Controversies and shews that Justification is onely by union to Christ and by nothing else whatsover is the abundance of Grace and of the Gift of Righteousness And healed by the Wings of Christ and flowing out and Righteousness streaming out continually from the Sun of it that is Christ Oh then that we were but clear in this great truth of the Righteousness of God Jehovah being our Righteousness For if such a poor weak thing as Faith because it is conformable as is supposed to the Evangelical Law were our Righteousness we should have Reason to fear and much more because indeed no one comes up so much as to the Evangelical Law as they would phrase it Our Faith is so weak and low that if we were to be Justified by it we should be utterly undone even by that which we call the Gospel-Law but when it does but onely attend the Communication and giving of the Righteousness of the Eternal Jehovab to us when it does onely that O we that are in this Righteousness and are made the Righteousness of Jehovah It is impossible we should be condemned We must needs condemn every tongue that rises in Judgment against us because we have the Righteousness of Jehovah I confess the thing is so great that many even would be ready to look upon it as strange and next to Blasphemy But it is the very words of Scripture and even the thing it self it always presses Not that we are Righteous as God is Righteous As some would Infer from such Expressions or Righteous as Christ is Righteous That is according to the Divine Original Righteousness of Jesus Christ or according to any perfections that are proper to him But that we are utterly uncondemnable and set out of the reach of Condemnation hereby and arrayed as in our degree with this rich Robe Because it is the Righteousness of God we are found in and that we are made by Vnion to Christ the Righteousness of God And yet all the distinction that ought to be preserved to the greatness of the Righteousness of God and Christ is still preserved And that 's the first thing in which I would open this point The second thing is to shew you that Faith in it self it cannot be looked upon as our Righteousness Because there is a great deal of difference in all our Reason and Apprehension between the taking of a Gift and the Gift Because I take a great Gift shall therefore my taking be counted of Equal value with the Gift You know this is contrary to all our Reason to all our Apprehension in the case A man may have a Pearl of Incomparable value given to him suppose in a state of necessity and want Shall his taking of the Gift or of the Pearl be look'd upon as of equal value with the Pearl it self Why now if we were Justified by Faith as it is a work or an act of ours or any thing let it be called by what name it will as it is in us would it therefore Justify us as it is in us Because of its taking of an incomparable invaluable gift must it be equal with the gift it self Therefore though Scripture speaks so much of Faith as it does and of being Justified by Faith yet let Faith lye low before Christ For It is not our taking If it were the most perfect act it could be supposed But it is not so But we have Reason to cry out Lord I believe help thou mine unbelief But if it were so It were nothing at all in the case As you know the most perfect and grateful and delightful Receiving of a gift can no way answer or stand in account with the gift it self Now therefore this I desire should be Imprinted upon our spirits both to take down all imagination of our selves and also to give Consolation in many of the Anguishes and Agonies of Conscience that come upon Believers through the weakness of their Faith Rom. 5. 17. They which receive saith the Apostle abundance of Grace Now can any of us suppose that the Receiving abundance of Grace should be any way equal to the abundance of Grace it self And so in the first Chapter of John saith the Evangelist there He came unto his own and his own received him not But to as many as received him ver 12. Now I would desire to ask you whether you think that the receiving of him that is of Christ whether it be any way matchable or can countervail the Excellency of Christ himself Or whether it can come near in any of the vertues or the Powers of Jesus Christ to Adoption or Justification therefore it is most evidently cleared that it is not the worth of Faith or the Excellency of Faith or the Activity or Applicatoriness of Faith But it is wholly in that Great and Excellent and Infinite Person whom we receive by Faith there 's the whole of the thing And therefore If you ask where is our Riches where 's our Righteteousness where 's our Strength It is evident it is not in our receiving But in him whom we receive It is not in our receiving but in the abundance of Grace and of the Gift of Righteousness that we receive together with the receiving of Christ himself and no otherwise Not by receiving of it and going away with it from Christ and saying we have it now But by keeping close to him as our Sun and as our Fountain the Sun of Righteousness and Fountain of Righteousness keeping close to him And so that Righteousness of his overflows and runs out upon us and then as I said our Consolation depends upon it For O! 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whether we have been right in the first Act But there has been as they say an Error in the Foundation an Error in the first Concoction as Physitians speak and cannot be mended So there has been an Error in taking Christ and Error in the Foundation becomes Error in the whole course of a Mans Building A man says he has taken Christ and lives under the Power of his Lusts and the Power of the World Because he never look Christ aright Men will say Here you are mistaken in your Profession That you cannot live Holily which your Profession binds you to But I say if the thing were but well traced and enquired into it would be found here was the great miss that your first Action flew off and did not rightly take Christ The 2d Chapter of John is a Scripture that will clear this that a Man may take Christ by a false Action and lose him in the very first Rudiments and the first beginnings by a mistake As now it is in Nature in the forming of an Embrio in the Womb If there be a false formation a monstrous formation in the VVomb there 's an irregularity all along the Life So if Faith be mistaken in its first Act in supposing it takes Christ and does not that Error cannot be mended The Latter Errors may be more apparent than the first but the first is the cause of all John 2. 23 24 25. Now when he was in Jernsalem at the Passover in the Feast-day many believed in his name when they saw the Miracles that he did One would have thought this was true Faith as the great Men of Reason say because they were brought over to believe by seeing the Miracles of Christ But Jesus did not commit himself unto them because he knew all men And needed not that any should Testify of man for he knew what was in man If he did not commit himself to them we may very well understand he did not Unite himself to them He knew it was not that Faith to which he United himself and his Righteousness Christ does not commit himself to a Faith that is not indeed as I said before a Faith of God's Elect and the like pretious Faith and that is not given by that Divine Lot of Grace as the Expression is 2 Pet. 1. 1. that I have formerly spoken to you of To them who have obtained by Lot by this Divine Lot like precious Faith with us according to the Righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ I know we cannot look into this but by the Divine Spirit and by feeling the twistings of the Soul about Christ through that great Opperation of God upon us But this we may see plainly Christ did not commit himself to them So he does not commit his Righteousness his Propitiation his Redemption he does not commit it but where he sees a Faith which he himself hath given that is indeed of the true and excellent Alloy For he knows at the very first He sees many that pretend to Believe and that think they Believe but he knows very well where their Faith is wrong and where it loses that great Prize that Pearl of Price that it is to obtain He himself not committing or giving himself knows a true Action of Faith in Receiving him will not follow for that 's the first Action of Faith to Receive Christ giving himself The Second kind of the Actions of Faith they are those that though they are not immediately as the first Acts of taking of Christ by Faith yet they immediately Result and Rise up When any Man hath taken Christ there are some Actions that do immediately Result and Arise They bear the Hiew they carry the Complexion they have upon them the Lineaments of the Death of the Dying of our Lord Jesus Christ They have such peculiar Respects to his Blood to his Death to his Redemption I would instance in two of these we find in Scripture-Saints And then I shall draw out in brief Expressions the general Actions of Christians according to their pattern The first is that in the 11 Chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews it is said of Moses v. 28. Through Faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of Blood lest he that destroyed the first born should touch them This he did by faith God commanded him indeed to keep the Passover But Moses had an Eye upon the Redemption of Christ in it And by Faith he kept the Passover So every Act of the Soul by which it makes Recourse to Christ upon all occasions after it hath taken him it is like keeping the Passover Every Act I say wherein we do especially depend upon the Blood of Christ and make close Recourse and Application to it it is an Action Resulting from true saving Justifying faith that true faith by which we are Saved and Justified For so indeed I observe tho we call it Justifying faith the Scripture never calls it so But the faith by which we are Justified To make good that point that I have always press'd upon you that we are not Justified by Faith as an Act But we are Justified only as the Righteousness of Christ is given to it for that Righteousness alone is our Justification But this I say there are Acts of the Soul by which it does make recourse to Christ and to his Blood Another Example and I choose to give it you because it is Seated in that of the Apostle James that is made the great Objection against the faith by which we are Justified through the Righteousness and Propitiation of Christ James 2. 21. saith the Apostle Was not Abraham our Father Justified by works when he had offered Isaac his Son upon the Altar Seest thou how faith wrought with his Works and by works was faith made perfect Now this is the thing that I observe to you The Offering of Isaac it was as great a Conversant Act about the Death Blood and Sâ—crifice of Christ as any could possibly be represented in Scripture to us For there could not be a greater Type and Representation of the Father giving his Son to Die for Sinners and to become a Sacrifice for them than that of Abraham the Affectionate Father of Isaac Offering up his Son Isaac Therefore the Apostle uses this for an Argument of a Working faith This was a Work of Faith indeed it was not a work of Faith taking Christ but it was a work of Faith conversant about the Death and Sacrifice of Christ And therefore the Apostle is express in it Seest thou how Faith wrought with his works This was a great act in which Faith wrought mightily when Abraham offered up Isaac But 't was not so properly a work of Moral obedience as the work of Faith in Christ if we Consider the Greatness and excellency of it and the Eye it had to Christ though it was a high act of obedience of self Resigning also So I say there are many acts which are

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