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Soveraign omnipotency the saint's security in evil days Discoursed and concluded from Rom. IV. xvii, xviii.
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Crompton, William, 1599?-1642.
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Wing C7032A; ESTC R231868
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Proposition So he was thus he is and so ever shall be The Creatures shall be dissolved into nothing and men as they are into Falsities But God will be found just for ever I shall first endeavour to explain this truth and afterwards confirm it For Explication know that one may be said to be just three ways 1. Obediâ—nâ—ia Activa by Active Obedience and that Voluntary and Perfect both extensively in Regard of the Object and Intensively in Regard of the Suhject So Christ alone is said to be just here his Heart and the Law were Unisons answering each other as Face answereth Face in a Glass And the Saints shall be hereafter when the Imperfect Lineaments of Grace in the Soul shall by the Pensil of the Holy Ghost be drawn forth in their orient Beauty and the Vermilion of Glory be laid upon them If it be Objected That the Saints are said to be just here I answer true Joseph is called a just man Math. 1.19 so were Zechariah and Elizabeth Luke 1.16 said to be Righteous before God c. But to be understood 1. Not Legallâ— for Righteousness of Creation whereby God made man after his own Image in Holiness and Righteousness to walk exactly according to the Rule of Justice Perfect man was then though mutable because hiâ— Holiness depended upon and flowed from a Principlâ— in himsâ—lf Original Justice now lost and so none is Righteous no not one But 2. Evangellically viz 1â— In Desiderio Conatu The Saints do Level at the mark of Perfection They hunger after compleat Righteousness whence it is said they Sin not John 3.9 because though they be not without Sin yet their Wills is against Sin they have voted it down When they fail they mourn and this is called Gospel-Righteousness 2 Comparative Respectu Impiorum in Respect of the Wicked and so Noah was said to be perfect in his Generation he being Compared with the Prophane World was a Perfect just man Gold in the Oar Compared with Lead or Brass is perfect a field of Wheat may have some Thistles growing in it yet Compared with that of Tares is perfect Wheat 3 Divina Acceptatione God doth accept of them in and through Christ Colos 2.10 Ye are compleat in him Through the Red-glass every thing appears red so through the Red glass of Christs Blood the gracious Soul appears lovely and Beautifull in Gods eye They are accepted in the Beloved Ephes 1. 2. One may be said to be just Gratia by Grace as the Elect and Called are just Justitia unionis Imputata by the Righteousness of Christ Imputed Jer. 33.6 This is as truely theirs to justify as it is Christs to bestow and this is a Christians Triumph when he is defiled in himself he is undefiled in his Head in his Righteousness the Saints shall shine brighter than the Angels Or Justitia communionis Inherente viz. the Graces of Christs Spirit Holiness of Heart and Life which Cajetan calleth Vniversal Righteousness 3. Natura by Nature and so two wayes 1. Dono by Gift as Adam was by Creation His will which is the Universal Appetite of the whole man was Wonderfully good Furnished with several Habits of Goodness as the Firmament with Glittering Stars There was in him a propension to all good as an Instrument in Tune he was full of Harmony like a Bright Air and a pure Beauty without the least Cloud to stain it his Heart was without the least Tincture of Impurity as Wine that hath no Sophistication Such was Adams Holiness But this is not now to be found on Earth we must go to Heaven for it 2. Essentia by Essence and so God only is just Righteousness in God is as Beams in the Sun Water in the Fountain and Lines in the Centre it is Original he is the Pattern and Prototype of all Righteousness just ad intra as he is just ad extra as he works every way just Some may understand the first only as Osiander would every where others the latter only I conceive both may and must be here understood God is just in himself and in all his Ministrations to the Sons of men Again He is said to be just 1. Qui justa facit imperat juste So doth God who never Acted or Commanded any thing but what was in it self equal and reasonable although perhaps to our shallow and corrupt Understanding it may appear otherwise as to our eyes Turrets and Steeples how upright soever if their height be exceeding great do oftentimes seem crooked and look as if they stood awry But all Gracious Hearts discover that Beauty and Equity in all Gods Commands as draws forth their Assent and and Consent to them they can say Blessed be God for his Precepts His Commands are not Grievous 2. Qui opera quadrat adjuris Praecepta So doth God whose Will is the supream Reason Nec Recta solum sed ipsa Regula not only right but the very Rule of Right And impossible it is for him to do wrong by erring from the Rule of Righteousness Men may overslip themselves and miscarry or deny Justice in which case Appeals have been made to God as in the time of Hen. 3. The bold Countess of Arundel Appeal'd from the King and his bad Counsellors to the Court of Heaven And in the History of the Holy-War Relation is given of a Templar who being to be burnt at Burdeaux at the place of Execution he saw the Pope and King Philip looking out of a Window and cryed to them Clement thou Cruel Tyrant seeing there is no higher among Mortals to whom I should Appeal for my unjust death I cite thee together with King Philip before the Tribunal of Christ Jesus the Just Judg who Redeemed me there both to appear within one year and a day where I will lay open my Cause and Justice shall be done without any respect And it fell out accordingly 3. Qui promissa servat So doth God He is faithful that promised One letter of his name whereby he hath made himself known is Abundant in Truth And Christ is called the faithful and true Witness And the Counsels of God are said to be Faithful and True He so much abounds in it as he hath no mixture of the contrary though the best of men have some as for example A precious Stone hath some speckling or cloud but light it self admits of none God is light and with him is no darkness at all so God is true and in him is no Falshood at all God that cannot lie hath promised saith the Apostle Titus 2. God may delay his Promise but he cannot deny his Promise 4. Qui suum cuique tribuit justitia distributiva So doth God He gives to every man his own It is Injustice and Tyranny to invade another mans Right An Evil which cannot be imputed to God without Horrid Blasphemy But to come nearer we may consider God under a fourfold notion and in each shall find him Just 1. Vt