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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

set Christ as Mediator under the Curse and Condemning power of the Law which other ways could hot have touched him and turns the Curse of the Law from the Law-breaking Sinner which otherways would take hold on all Sinners as such and so sets him under the sentence of Life in the Court of Grace by absolute promise Titus 1.2 which free and absolute sentence of Life takes hold on the Persons of God's chosen as early as the law sentence can take hold on the persons of those that have no Mediator Rom. 9. 11 13. This is the immediate effects of Christ's Mediatorship for the Elect and the pronounced or declared sentence of God's eternal Will thus with Respect to this eternal Transaction in a Covenant way we may understand these following Scriptures Prov. 8.23 Micah 5.2 Zac. 6.13 Eph. 3.11 2 Tim. 1.9 1 Pet. 1.20 Now whither you will please to call this Imminent and Internal Act of God's Will Justification or not yet let the thing it self be granted and so far we shall agree I desire not to differ about Words if we mean the same thing I suppose you take only the pronounced sentence into Justification that I own as it declares the fundamental Act according to which they stand Just if we differ not about the sentence it self for I reckon that all sentences of Court that are according to Justice are grounded upon some preceding Act which makes the sentence Just Therefore I shall take in both because the Righteous Judge of the whole Earth will never pronounce any Law-breaking Sinner Just but those which he makes Righteous in a Mediator according to this Sovereign Act of his Grace but I take it for granted that our difference I mean amongst those that are sound and Orthodox is not about the matter of our Justifying Righteous nor whither it is God only that Justifies through Christ nor whether it be by Grace excluding all manner of Works of the Law wrought in us or performed by us even the Act of believing it self as it is a Work of the Law though I could wish that were something better cleared as well as owned in words Therefore I shall pass these things and come to the very point and that is what Act of God it is that makes over the Righteousness of Christ as Mediator to an elect Person or gives him a Right to that Righteousness in the sight of God This I take to be fundamentally in the Sovereign Will of God in that Covenant Transaction between the Father and the Son there was a Grant unto our great Covenant-Head the Lord Jesus though he were purely God and had not then assumed our Nature yet he did personally exist and was a distinct Person from the Father from Eternity though of the same Nature and Essence And by Virtue of Eternal Covenant Transaction he was under an Obligation from all Eternity to take our Nature upon him as Abraham's Seed with a Special Eye to the Elect for he pass'd by the Nature of Angels and though it is true that he took Flesh Humane Nature yet he pass'd by the non-elect and on the Seed of Abraham he took hold that is of all Abraham's Spiritual Seed as he saith I and the Children thou hast given me The Apostle in that Second Chapter to the Hebrews Quotes that out of Isaiah and brings it to prove the Covenant Relation that was between Christ and the Elect and forasmuch as the Children were partakers of Flesh and Blood he likewise himself took part of the same by this Covenant Relation we became Bone of his Bone and Flesh of his Flesh as there is one Body as well as one Spirit by virtue of this Covenant Relation the elect only receive Life and quickenings from Christ as Head of the Covenant of Grace as the Father gave him to be Head to the Catholick or Universal Church the whole Body of election Eph. 1.22 23. and then it follows and you hath he quickened chap. 2. v. 1. Thus I have spoke in a few words something of that Union from whence flows Communion which doth not only precede Faith in order of Nature but in order of time also and by virtue of which we have the Spirit that works Faith in God's time from Christ as our anointed Head but to return by virtue of this Covenant Transaction he was likewise under an Obligation to bare all the Sins by way of charge and Imputation of all the elect in his own Body on the Tree as their Covenant Head and Mediator so he stood Ingaged by Covenant Contract from Eternity to answer for them to all the demands of Law and Justice John 10.18 This Command have I received of my Father and John 12.50 I know that his Command is Life everlasting The same Act of God's Grace that made our Sins to meet on Christ to Death as the wages of Sin brought his Mediatorial Righteousness upon the Elect to Life everlasting Rom. 5.21 chap. 6 23. By virtue of this Covenant Transaction it is made over to God's chosen by a free Testament of Grace in the Blood of the New Testament and comes upon them as a free gift of Righteousness Rom. 5.18 and we have Right to that Justifying Righteousness as held forth in the free and absolute promise as elect Persons being chosen in Christ as the elect head of this his free Testament and the Testament it self gives Right and the elect are heirs of promise as soon as they have a being not Natural Heirs by descent but Heirs by Grace for what is freer than Gift God made his Will in Eternity and bequeathed Eternal Life to his adopted Children that were predestinated to Son-ship acccording to the good pleasure of his Will Eph. 1.5 now this Testament of Grace in the Blood of Christ made known and Revealed by an absolute promise of Life Titus 1.2 taken from Gen. 3.15 this gives them right and makes them Heirs of the promise of Life and though the Blessings given in this Testament be in the Sureties Hand till the time apointed of the Father to be giving out successively at the several times appointed first the Spirit of Faith and then Sanctification gradually carried on and at last consummated in Glory therefore to make one Blessing thereof to be either Cause or Condition of the Rest would be very improper when all are but parts of the same free gift and that which gave them Right to one gave them Right to all that which gave them a Right to Faith before they did receive it gave them Right to Justifying Righteousness before they had Faith and that was thefree Testament it self in the Blood of Christ then here lieth the Right of elect Persons as such to Justifying Righteousness in the Will it self as being by that absolutely settled upon all the Heirs of promise by two Immutable things God's Promise and Oath and add to this the Testator's Blood and shews all is firm the elect have an Indefeasable Right and

are Heirs by Grace though Children of Wrath by Nature as coming from fallen Adam's Loins So considered their State is a State of Wrath and liable and obnoxious to God's eternal Wrath and Displeasure That State strictly considered but the Persons of the elect in this sinful fallen Estate 〈◊〉 are not objects of God's Wrath but objects of his great Immense God like-Love even when they are dead in sins Eph. 2.4 Faith makes not their Persons excepted though it doth their Services the exceptation of their Persons in the beloved is a pure Act of God's Sovereign Will that will because he will and will on whom he will Thus it appears that the Elect are Heirs by Grace and the Testament it self gives them Right to Eternal Life as the free gift of God by absolute promise and to have Right to Eternal Life and all the Blessings of the Testament of Grace by Blood and to be under the condemning Power of the Law are plain contradictions as being opposite one to the other But if any say they have nothing in present possession I answer if they have Right to Justifying Righteousness that is enough to free them from Curse and Wrath in the sight of God's satisfied Justice For there can be no Right except God counts it so and if he counts it so that is enough to Justifie us in his sight for this Righteousness is without us and is not communicated but imputed and Christ as Mediator is the subject of this Righteousness but however the Elect have a proper Right to Sanctification and Glorification before Faith For there was a Grant to Christ in the Eternal compact he performing all old Covenant Conditions as head and Mediator which when he had performed he entered into Heaven by his own Blood having obtained Eternal Redemption Heb. 9.12 what he obtained as our great Executor and surety of the Testament was before granted and he obtained it on the behalf of them for whom it was granted It pleased the Father to intrust him with all fulness of Grace for the Elect as their Covenant Head that so it might be sure to all the Heirs of Promise The Father hath made it as sure in Christ the surety of this Testament as the Eternal God could make it to speak with Reverence Thus I have been shewing which way Sinners are made Righteous in a Mediator and though the Decree produced no immediate effect yet it produced its timely effects at that moment of time the Law was broken a Mediator stood Ready as fore-ordained to step in and stand in the breach to keep off the flood of Wrath from breaking out upon the Elect always remember the Law was put in the Mediators hand or else we make strange Work and set the Law and Promise together by the Ears when the Law could not give life it must march off as a Covenant of Life or Death to God's chosen Christ takes it in his own hand and makes it give way to the Promise Now I shall come to speak something of the Justifying Sentence which pronounceth the Elect Righteous in their Covenant Head and Mediator as grounded upon this preceding Act of Grace by way of Covenant Transaction between the Father and the Son which brought our Sins upon Christ and his Mediatorial Righteousness upon us and we are wholly passive both in our being made Righteous by Imputation which is an Act of pure Grace in God to Sinners and likewise in our being pronounced Just in that Imputed Righteousness which is a sentence of Grace and passeth in the Court of Grace Life by the free promise Now in pronouncing the Sentence of Life upon ungodly Law-breaking Sinners God sits Judge of his own Law as well as the Elect Sinners Cause and instead of pronouncing the Sentence of the Law upon the Poor Sinner to Condemnation God sits Inthroned upon a Mercy Seat in the Court of Grace reconciled in a Mediator in whom Grace and Justice most sweetly agree to pass the sentence of Eternal Life up on the Elect Sinner by absolute promise Gen. 3.15 Titus 1.2 1 John 2.25 This Sentence declares God's Eterna● Will that Christ as Mediator was t● die in elect Sinners Place and they t● live by an Act of Sovereign Grace Thus God as a righteous Judge Justifieth the Righteous only that is pronounceth none but such Just as are so Deut. 25.1 and yet he Justifies the ungodly not by dispensing with his Holy Law or making that void but in a way of Justice Magnifying and Honouring his Law declares an act of Eternal Grace by virtue of which Act his Elect did stand Righteous in his sight by Imputation of one Man's Obedience to answer the Law in their place as a Covenant Head opposed to Adam's one Disobedience who was a figure of this second Adam which was immediately to take the first Adam's place with Respect to God's chosen in him upon his failoure And it is Remarkable that with respect to Christ's Mediatorship God comes in the cool of the Day reconciled in him and sounds the Jubilee Trumpet from Heaven and pronounced the sentence of Life in the free promise upon Adam and all the Womans Seed in a better Covenant Head than poor A dam was when he was recking hot in Rebellion and had no Faith For till the sentence was past there was no Grace no Christ no promise Revealed for fallen Man to lay hold on and the case must be the same still for the object must precede the Act that is conversant about that object and if Life were not revealed in an absolute promise there were no footing for Faith for a conditional promise is most properly a Law He that doth the thing required shall live Thus Faith is made void and the free promise of none effect for the first thing lookt to must be the condition annex'd to the promise and then the promise claimed upon that condition Now suppose Faith be annexed to the Justifying sentence of Life then Justifying Righteousness and eternal Life in the free promise is not the object of Faith but Faith it self must first be lookt to and then the promise pleaded upon Faith as the condition of Life but this is not the Nature of Abraham's Faith that took God upon his word and staggered not at the promise nor considered not the unlikeliness or seeming Impossibilities but believed God upon his Word and the object of his Faith was counted to him for Righteousness Thus it is by Faith as an empty Hand or passive Instrument that receives all in the free promise as pure Grace and in no sense upon Faith as a condition annex'd to the sentence of Life Yet I own that this or that Individual Person is not declared to be a Justified Person and free from condemnation but upon believing as no Individual Person is declared to be elected nor Redeemed by the Death of Christ but upon believing Yet the Scriptures do plainly declare that some are elected and them are