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A95872	A very short and brief account of the free justification of God's elect, from the condemning power of the law, by that law change of persons, (flowing from an eternal act of grace, by way of covenant transaction between the Father and the Son;) which brought Christ as mediator under the curse and condemnation of that broken law, in the very room and place of elect sinners. : Whereunto are added, some questions concerning this point; : proposed to be answered by those that do so confidently affirm, that the elect of God are equally with others, under the same condemning power of the law, before faith. / By A member of a Church of Christ, in the County of Essex.	Member of a Church of Christ.	1699 (1699)	Wing V279dA; ESTC R185966	13,548	48

Redeemed and what are the ill consequences that follow if I say that Justice doth not charge these Redeemed ones but God is compleatly reconciled to them by the Death of Christ any more than the former Will it not amount to the same to say some are ordained to Eternal Life and Redeemed with the Blood of Christ as to say God doth not charge these Redeemed ones seeing we likewise affirm that none know that they are not under Condemnation before Believing and that whoever dies an unbeliever shall be Damned except any suppose that Terrifying Soul with Curse and Condemnation be the most effectual way to bring them to Faith in Christ and if so I am not in their Mind and I am sure the Gospel ought to be Preached and Grace proclaimed And I think it is the most effectual to propose the Truth as the object of Faith which the Gospel doth Reveal for Salvation God's pardoning Grace in the Blood of Christ and so Invite Sinners to come to God as reconciled in the bleeding Sacrifice of his Son Jesus This it is that offends some that have made the greatest Noise and have enfluenced others which in other words say the same things about words and because they cannot so directly strike at this free Invitation to Sinners to come directly to Christ without their Previous Qualifications which strikes so directly at their Idol self Righteousness therefore they are pleased to brand the Doctrine of God's free Justifying Grace with Nick-Names at their pleasure And I wish that some which see otherways be not frightned from owning the Truths they believed and received in the light of God's Holy Spirit for fear of being laden with Calumnies and Reproaches for it is a trying time and I do be-believe that those that are kept close to Christ in owning the simplicity of the Gospel shall meet with as great Trials as those that have gone before us for Christ will shake the Earth and the Heavens and remove those things that are made and Burn up the Hay Wood and Stubble Therefore let every Man take heed what he builds though upon the foundation of Christ 〈◊〉 Cor. 3.12 But to return to the Point in Hand there be various sentences and in various Courts where and by which God declares the non-Imputation of Sin to his Elect and all sentences of Court whatsoever do but declare God's Act of Grace in that Court where the sentence is pronounced and the last add final sentence will be at the great Assizes when Christ will publickly before Men and Angels pronounce them blessed Yet to conclude with some that they were not compleatly Justified till then would be great darkness so though God in his Word doth pronounce Believers Justified yet it will no more follow that they were not Justified before than the former if things be rightly weighed for this makes Faith a moral Condition of Justification as hath been shewn already and also denies Justification to be by the new Covenant or makes the Covenant of Grace conditional and that in a strict sence denies Faith to be a part of the Covenant Blessings but that Justification is by the Covenant of Grace Few do directly deny and I am as certain as I am certain that the Scriptures are true that the first pronounced sentence of Life to Sinners is by that Covenant Gen 3.15 And it is according to the Tenour of that Covenant for there are but two Covenants or Courts where the pronounced sentence of Life can be supposed to pass but by the works of the Law No Flesh shall be Justified Rom. 3.20 then is must be according to the Tenour of the Covenant of Grace if that be an absolute promise of Life then the sentence is an absolute sentence but that is an absolute promise of Life Gen. 3.15 Titus 1.2 1 John 2.25 Therefore the sentence is an absolute sentence past in the Court of Grace upon all the Womans Seed in their Covenant Head in direct opposition to the Serpents seed upon the Serpent and his Seed the Curse takes place having no Mediator to make up the breach and the promise in Christ takes hold of the Elect as soon as they have a being Rom. 9.13 Then except it can be proved that the sentence that passeth upon believing be according to the Tenour of the Covenant of Grace it will be in vain for to contend for that to be the first sentence of Life that is past upon an elect Person But I deny That believe in the Lord Jesus and thou shalt have Life or be Saved is the Tenour of the Covenant of Grace it is a part of the New Testament Ministry but not the Tenour of the New Covenant Then seeing there is no Law given that can give Life Gal. 3.21 then prove that the Covenant of Grace i● conditional or grant that the ●●otence of Life is absolute or deny that the Justifying Sentence of Life passeth according to the Tenour of that Covenant and then it will lye upon you to prove by what Covenant we are Justifyed But leaving this that which I desire your answer to is these following Questions which I desire you would answer to each particular distinctly as you tender the Truth and the Glory of Christ and respect my good and the good of others by clearing up the Truth that the simplicity of the Gospel may be preserved by God's Special help and protection Question I. DID the Chosen of God which were loved with an everlasting and unchangable Love when they fell in Adam into Sin by the breach of the Law equally with others Did they then come under the same condemning Power of the Law and under the same Curse and Wrath of God equally with the non-elect whilst on Earth If not the very same shew where it differs and then it may be we agree in the main though differ in expressions But if the very same Then Question II. HOW can they be under the Curse and Wrath of God and suffer here on Earth in that state as the effects of Sin and consequently of the Curse whilst under it and not penal as part of the punishment due to Sin Though not Hell it self yet something of the same Nature though not the same degree because not under the Justifying sentence of Life past in the New Covenant Therefore the Curse of Afflictions not taken away they are no corrections in a Covenant way but properly punishment in Wrath as taken in a strict Sense Then Question III. HOW can this stand with that perfect atonement made by our high Priest's own Oblation or doth it not exceedingly derogate from that perfect satisfaction he made to Justice and his compleat filling up the Law by Mediatorial Obedience Heb. 10. v. 10 12 14. and chap 9 v. 12.26 Again Question IV. DOTH not this imply a change in God for there is a mighty change some where that one that stands condemned in God's sight and under his Curse and Wrath having all his Sins

charged upon and Imputed to him by God himself should be the very next moment upon believing not charged with one Sin but received into the Favour of God as perfectly and compleatly Righteous in God's sight Now the change is not in the voice of the Law for that neirespects believers nor unbelievers Elect or Non-elect but equally Curseth all that continue not in all things that are written to perfection Deut. ●● 26 then it is not that imperfect ●●ange wrought in believers that can ●●n the sentence of the Law that it ●ould not Curse and Condemn them ●●at are in themselves sinful and imper●●ct Therefore I see not but that ●●ou must make the change to be in ●●od that counts the Mediatorial Obe●●ience of Christ answered the Law 〈◊〉 our place now and not before ●●cept you can find a milder Law that ●●onounceth the sentence of Life up●n this imperfect change wrought in ●s as the condition annex'd to the ●entence of Life And if so Then Question V. HOW will you deny that conditionality of the Covenant of Grace and that Faith is the Condition hereof for if Justification be by the New Covenant then the sentence 〈◊〉 Life must be according to the Teno●● of the Covenant Then if that be a● absolute promise of Life as Titus 1 ● compared with 1 John 2.25 the 〈◊〉 the Justifying sentence of Life must b● absolute as past upon all God's chose● in Christ their Covenant-Head Ge●● 3.15 chap. 22 18 compared wit● Gal. 3.16 17 18. otherwise th● Covenant must be Conditional an● Faith must be the Condition thereof 〈◊〉 and consequently no part of the Covenant Grace because not promised there in For if the first Grace be promised then the promise must be absolute t● Sinners as such as the price of th● Blood of the great Testator Again Question VI. WHY do you set the Seal of th● Covenant of Grace upon th● infinite seed of Believers seeing before ●aith they are in no fence under the ●entence of Life past in that Covenant promise though I grant that God is ●t liberty to shew his Sovereignty 〈◊〉 in Abraham's Family if the promise ●e not Real and absolute at least to ●ome as to the Internal part thereof ●hat God is their God by Covenant ●tomise Then the Seal of the Covenant is vain or only holds forth external priviledges and consequently believing Parents have no grounds for their Faith that God is the God of their seed by Covenant promise Again Question VII DOth God pronounce any Just but such as are so in his sight by Imputation If not then making over a Righteousness to elect Sinners in a Mediator must be taken in to God's Justifying Act as well as the pronounced sentence which is grounded upon this Act of Grace in a way of Justice because God as Righteous Judge Justifies ungodly Law-breaking Sinners as clears them from the voice of the Law as to the condemning power thereof by a righteousness without us by Imputation Then that Act of God's Grace that turns the sentence of the Law upon Christ the spotless Lamb by imputing our Sins to him and turns the sentence of Law as to its Condemning power from Guilty Law-breaking Sinners by imputing his Mediatorial obedience to them comes into Justification as well as the pronounced sentence that declares this Act of Grace by which the Sinner stands clear in a way of Justice For all sentences of Court according to Justice are grounded upon some preceding Act according to which Act the sentence is Just and the sentence Justifies as it declares the Act by which they stand clear Again Question VIII WHat is God's Act of Imputation by which he makes that Law Change of Persons which sets Christ as Mediator under the Curse and Condemning power of the Law Gal. 4. verse 4. chap. 3. verse 13. compared though in himself spotless and sets elect Sinners under the Blessings of the New Covenant Gal. 3. v. 14. as the immediate effects of his Mediatorial obedience though in themselves and with respect to the Law ungodly Sinners The Apostle speaking of this Sovereign Act of God Rom. 4.5 saith God Justifies the ungodly Then brings in David describing it by imputing Righteousness without works which is the Grounds Grounds of his not imputing Sin and consequently the Grounds of his pronouncing them Just This he brings in as the Quintessence of God's Justifying Act now if this Sovereign Act that makes this Law change of Persons and turns the Condemning sentence of the Law from the guilty Law-breaking Sinner to the spotless Lamb be not an Act of God's Sovereign Will as Imminent and Internal then I desire you would undeceive me and shew plainly what manner of Act it is for I take God's Will to be the Rule of all Justice and things are therefore Just because he Wills them and as it was his Will that the breach of his Law should be punished with Eternal Death and he would by no means clear the guilty Exo. 34.7 so it was his Will that this spotless Lamb should stand Guilty as Mediator by way of Imputation and should mediate between a broken Law and his Chosen ones and stand between all Harms and them And I humbly conceive that in this Act of imputing our Sins to Christ and his obedience as Mediator to us God respects no manner of inherent change in us Again Question IX WHen doth the Mediatory undertakement of Christ first take place for an Elect Person If when we believe and not before then Christ Intercedes not for the Elect uncalled which is contrary to the Scripture Jo. 17.20 Christ's Mediatorship is figured out in the Type Deut. 5.5 I stood between the Lord and you saith Moses when the Law was given upon Mount Sinai And Deut. 10.5 I came down from the Mount and put the Tables in the Ark and there they be as the Lord Commanded me Compare this with Gal. 3.19 20 21. there he shews that the Law in the Mediator's Hand made the promise take place upon the seed of Abraham Jews and Gentiles Which was the Gospel God preached to Abraham and to Adam too as Law and promise meet in Christ they sweetly agree Christ being delivered up to Justice for all the Elect in their Law-place Who can charge them saith Paul God Justifies them Christ died and is Risen again and received to God's Right Hand and there pleads Rom. 8.33 34. his plea as an Advocate is mighty and prevailing as he pleads his propitiatory Sacrifice as the propiciation of the Elect World Jew and Gentle 1 Jo. 2.2 Thus he pleads out all Bills of Indictment whatsoever out of Court and his atoneing Blood was Efficacious from the very moment Adam fell He is called a Lamb slain from the foundation of the World Rev. 13.8 he was not actually slain neither do I understand it in the Decree only but by vertue of the Decree his Blood was Efficacious from the first moment Adam fell Had it not been