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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45149	Peace at Pinners-Hall wish'd, and attempted in a pacifick paper touching the universality of redemption, the conditionality of the covenant of grace, and our freedom from the law of works upon occasion of a sermon ... / by a lover of truth and accommodation.	Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.	1692 (1692)	Wing H3700; ESTC R5169	19,418	34

Truth And now I will crave leave for a little descant for the Matter and Use will bear it In all Tryals at our Judicial Courts there is a Statute upon which the Party or Parties accused are indited and according as they are found guilty or not by that Statute they are acquitted or condemned The Law by which Men shall be all tryed at judgment is not the Law of Works I have said but the Law of Grace I have need of saying this more than once because I know the notion of many Protestant Divines in their dispute with the Papist does bend them to another apprehension There is a Constitutive and Sentential Justification Juris Judicis The Law by which we are justified is that Law by which we must be judged It is by Faith we are justified and not by Works and that is all one as by the Law of Faith and not by the Law of Works Both is Scripture To maintain or to have any Conception that the Sentence at Judgment shall pass according to the Law of Works is an Errour and such as does tend to the subverting the Gospel and practical Religion It will be the great and only enquiry of that Day whether thou art a Performer of this Law the Law of Faith this Law of Pardon or Grace that is whether thou art a true or sound Believer If the Devil puts in his Accusation that thou art a sinner that thou hast done thus and thus and so art condemnable by the Law Christ will tell him streight I have put in bayl as to that I have satisfied my self in his behalf for that and there is at my Bar no question as to my part but as to his Not whether I have done mine but whether he hath performed his Have you any thing to prove the Man no Believer or no sound believer that he must be cast according to this Law or this Act Hear the Act read which is all one with Christs Will at his death Father I will that such an Act be passed which shall give a pardon to all the world and for all their sins with this clause in the Act The threat that is in the law of works to the contrary notwithstanding Only I will have every one that reaps the benefit of this Act which is laid in before to receive the Grace when promulgated with such a belief of it as working by love shall shew it self in a serious continued desire and endeavour to forsake their sins and cleave unto God in sincerity of heart and life And I will that such a sincerity shall be accepted notwithstanding all their failings nay very much gross and long sinning which they fall into through infirmity unto Life and Salvation This is the Tenour of this Act this Will of Christ that Law or Covenant of Grace by which we shall be judged Well now As for this servant of mine here at the bar accused by you will Christ say When I was a hungry he fed me and when naked cloathed me That is by such works of Charity as these and so of Piety and Sobriety or Temperance Justice and all other Vertue it does appear the man is a Believer and my Disciple These and these things are Manifestations and Evidences of a Sincere heart and a sound faith and therefore I declare him not guilty of the breach but a performer of this Law this Law of Faith upon which he is tryed By the way not here that the declaring a man righteous according to the Act he is tryed by is the most undoubted proper Justification As for the Mans Sins and the sins of the whole world I have my self bore them will our Judge say on the Cross I have satisfied for them by my death in the behalf of all men and this Act is a Declaration of a Vniversal forgiveness as of my Will upon these Terms Indeed the Act and my Will does require such Terms that all shall believe and repent that partake the advantage And this faith and repentance and upright life appearing in this person I do allow his right to the benefit I do allow that my Righteousness or the merits of my life and the Satisfaction or sacrifice of my Death be imputed to him unto this Effect I pronounce him righteous according to this Act and thereby justified and blessed And the righteous that is according this Law to life everlasting And now Sir there is a day when you and I and all the world must appear before God in judgment a day which for ought we know may last as some Learned Divines have thought a thousand years for a thousand years to God is but as one day I have some things that I have formerly thought on and writ and laid up in my heart as my small store to live upon and uphold me against the fear of that terrible day which is also a blessed day and a good day whensoever it comes It is upon the mercy of God and merits of Christ the most sanctified soul and the most miserable penitent sinner must both stand As David has a Psalm he calls A Psalm to bring to remembrance so shall the rest upon this subject which follows be We know that God hath appointed such a one to be our Judge who is a merciful high Priest touched with the feeling of our infirmities He knows our frame and that we are but dust We know that the Government of God we are all under is a gracious Government a righteous Government and a righteous one because gracious For I have learned this farther than some others that the very Righteousness of God in the New Testament towards fallen man is Grace We know that by the Law of Grace God expects we shall be righteous and that he accepts of an Evangelical obedience according to this Law as Perfection For when all that is ill done and all that is undone is forgiven us and not imputed that which we have done let it be never so little must according to this Law be Perfect We know for all that that the holiness of the most holy man living could never be accepted to Salvation but for the merits of Christ and when it is not for the value of the work done but upon the account of Christs merits that any man is accepted Whether my works be more or less if I be found sincere it is all one in regard to such an Acceptation Let me give my body to be burnt or let me give but a cup of cold water in Christs name if Christ sees integrity in it and his merits be imputed the one will be accepted as well as the other Let me have wrought but one hour or let me have wrought twelve my penny still is of Grace and for Christs sake We know farther that he whom God hath made to be our Judge is also and will be our Advocate and if there be any thing to be accepted as if there be any thing thou hast done

is some distinction must be made here so that mediately indirectly or some way by way of Redundacy such blessings even as these are the benefits of Christs Redemption to such and such particular persons let that distinction be formed right and in such a sense will the condition we speak of be a fruit hereof to the Elect even by its redundant merit and value The purchase Christ made was a purchase for us and for himself His purchase for us was that we should be pardoned upon Condition He purchased for himself a power to give us that condition that our pardon may be compleat All power is committed to me in Heaven and Earth faith Christ after he was risen There is accordingly a Redemption by price our Divines say and by power Pardon upon condition is the fruit of his Redemption by price But the Condition is the Effect of his Redemption by power When by his Death I say he had paid the price of a pardon for All upon Condition by his Resurrection he receives power to conferr the condition to whom he pleases that is the Elect which when they perform they are justified or have absolute right in it And that may be a good resolution as to the sense of that Text He was delivered for our sins and raised again for our justification To make the matter though more plain we have that Text in the Acts. Him hath God exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins Repentance we see and so faith comes from this power the power of Christ as a King rather than as a Priest and if as a Priest both 't is by vertue of his Intercession as he is at Gods right hand rather than of his Oblation Now Christ intercedes for nothing but according to Gods Will His will is his Decree and it is from the decree his decree of Election that our faith and repentance does come It is not from Christs purchase by price it is not from the power of our free will but it is from Election which belongs to God not as Rector but as Lord of his own gifts working the same effectually in us It is out of this Treasury Christ gives it And not by virtue of a right to any from his death but by the power of an endless life Not as Testator but as the Executor or Dispenser of his Fathers Election In fine Christ by his death did merit or procure this power that he hath at God rights hand By this power he gives us Repentance and Faith Faith and Repentance then is not the fruit of Christs death any otherwise than mediately or indirectly as being derived from this power which he obtained by it God I again say for the merit of Christs life and death exalts him to the power mentioned Wherefore God hath highly exalted him By this power or as exalted Christ gives his Spirit to work Faith and Repentance in whom he chooses or hath chosen By this work they are regenerated and that Article in the Agreement or Covenant as some call it between Father and Son When thou shalt make his Soul an offering for sin he shall see his seed is made good to him In this way about then and no other does Faith and Repentance come to the Elect by his death when the direct and immediate fruit of it is Vniversal That is Faith and Repentance the Condition is the fruit of Christs death as all other Blessings are which are asked of God for Christ's merits sake or which he as Prince and Saviour bestows on his people Whereas now it pleased the Gentleman to tell me That he never heard any Divine say in the Pulpit that which I said If he will understand me right I will take it for a Commendation rather than disparagement seeing it does import that what these Moderate Divines do generally say in the Substance was so deliver'd by me by way of Cultivation as did make some impression upon him as if it had been new rare or singular altogether That which I delivered in effect was indeed only this That Christ hath procured for the World a General Pardon But there is none have Benefit by it but he that believes and repents If I had called this a Vniversal conditional Remission and said no more which is the same whole thing he had not perhaps been surprized and I could as easily have said so but to speak as I did was better as fitted to my pacificatory end This is what I said I gave it light from the consideration of a Pardon by Act of Parliament A Pardon is agreed on by the King and the two Houses the People know nothing of it and do nothing to the obtaining it and the Pardon is General Nevertheless if any come to have the benefit by this Pardon he must look into the Act and see how it runs he must see what Qualifications it requires and if he does or will not qualify himself according to to the Act he loses the benefit It is so in this Act of Grace or Pardon for the world It is an Act of Grace I say perfectly free to man No man does or can do any thing to pacify God or merit the same It is all from the Agreement between Father and Son that Christ should fulfill the Law and by suffering also satisfy for our sins and the Pardon thereby be granted in our behalf while man does nothing himself by way of Cause I must say Condition or Active Occasion thereunto and here do I bring off those that say this Act Law or Covenant of Grace is without condition which in this sense we all see is really so And yet when any man comes in particular for benefit by this Pardon Act of Grace Grant Law Covenant Testament for this Grant of Pardon obtained by Christ the Covenant or Testament of Christ which is his Will bequeathing what he hath purchased upon his own terms are all we must know but the same thing he must read the Act and see how it is passed or read over the Will and see how it is made he must go to the Rowl which is the Word of God It was decreed from Eternity it passed at Christs death it was inrolled in Gods Words and promulgated by the Ministers of it and there he will find that God requires of every man to Believe Repent and walk sincerely before him in order to have the Benefit and that unless he Believes and Repents he is to have none by it And by this do I justifie those also of our Divines which are the Generality who say this Act Law or Covenant of Grace hath Conditions And when thus much will be acknowledged on both sides to wit That it is the sound Believer only or sincere Convert that is pardoned Absolutely so as to be Saved you have a way chalked out for Reconciliation of our Brethren at least so far as I drive to wit That Conscientious