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A76316	An examination of the chief points of Antinomianism, collected out of some lectures lately preached in the church of Antholines parish, London: and now drawn together into a body, and published for the benefit of all that love the holy truth of God, / by Thomas Bedford B. D. Vnto which is annexed, an examination of a pamphlet lately published, intituled The compassionate Samaritan, handling the power of the magistrate in the compulsion of conscience: by the same author.	Bedford, Thomas, d. 1653.	1647 (1647)	Wing B1668; Thomason E370_15; ESTC R201292	67,960	90

more sorrow nor crying no more curse nor fear therof according to the words of the Angel Rev. 21. 4. 22. 3. There is I grant a praejudicium in foro conscientiae a preludial Justification in the Court of Conscience which is a pregustation and foretaste of that final Absolution In the Court of Conscience doth Christ set up his Tribunal there doth he take notice of the Accusations that are put in by Satan against the sinner upon particular occasions and by the power and operation of the spirit working in the Conscience doth he upon the humble confession of the penitent soul pronounce the sentence of absolution by the Ministery of the Word and seal it by the blessed Sacrament and what is now done daily upon emergent occasions shall be ratified at the latter day according to that gracious promise of Christ made to Peter when he gave him the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven Mat. 16. 19. Whatsoever thou shalt loose on Earth shall be loosed in Heaven And the same in effect repeated to the Apostles Joh. 20. 23. Thus in present by the Ministery of Reconciliation there is a work of Iustification in the Court of Conscience But the final consummation is reserved to that day when Christ the Iudge proceeding judicially shal pronounce the sentence of absolution The main work of Iustification therefore is as yet future for to say that justification quatenus it comprehendeth remission of sin is one individual act or that the blood of Christ doth at once wash us from all even future sins in the Antinomian sense I dare not yield It is the blood of Christ and that alone which doth cleanse us from all sin so is it the word and spirit of Christ that leadeth us into all truth yet not all at once Truth it is that in our first union with Christ there is conferred the ground and pledge of future remission for all sins to the end of our lives the Ground of it is our Adoption sealed to us in our Baptism the which is not afterward cut off no not by the greatest sins which the believer doth commit still he is the childe of God though in respect of his sin he may be the childe of Wrath and lyable to punishment still he hath an interest in Christ and upon his repentance he shall have benefit and communion with him in his Merits and Graces The Pledge and pawn of future Remission i. e. of the Remission and Forgiveness of all future sins is that actual Remission of what sin for the present the soul stood guilty of at that time when he was United to Christ All sins past and present were actually pardoned viz. Actual sins in Converts Original in their Insants the guilt of these is remitted and their justification in reference to these sealed in Baptism This favor received is a Pledge of assurance to them that in future also by applying themselves to Christ they may and shall receive the forgiveness of their daily sins He that by the application of a salve hath his wound cured hath he not therein a Pledge of assurance that in the use of the same means upon the like occasion he may receive the same benefit But to say That in our first Union with Christ we receive an actual Remission of future sins is in mine Opinion as incongruous as to say The Cure is done and past before the wound be made I grant That it hath been received and passed for currant in the schools of our Divines That all sins are remitted to the Believer at once all viz. past present and to come so hath it been received That justifying Faith is a particular perswasion of Gods mercy to me But as Amesius hath well observed in Medulla Theol. lib. 1. cap. 27. That this was set down only to oppose that general assent to the Articles of our Creed in which Papists do place the essence of justifying faith And therefore though he granteth that Fides justificans parit hanc specialem fiduciam c. yet he defineth it to be Qua recumbimus in Christum ad Remissionem so I suppose that our Divines did set down this position of Iustification transacted at once to cut off the Popish ground for the Sacrament of Penance not foreseeing what we by experience finde how unhappy a ground is herein laid for loosness and Libertinism Hereupon Amesius ibidem coming to set down his Opinion of the matter doth mince it Remittuntur peccata justificatorum non praeterita solum sed etiam aliquo modo futura Note that aliquo modo Now to explain himself he addeth Hoc tamen est discriminis quod peccata praeterita per formalem applicationem Remissionis nobis in Christo paratae futura autem virtualiter tantum Praeterita in sese Futura in subjecto vel persona peccante The which is in effect to say Non remittuntur nisi in pignore The actual Remission of sins past is the Pledge and Pawn of what shall be upon the use and exercise of Faith But to conceive sin remitted as it were by an Ante-dated pardon is not only against sense and reason but also against the grounds of Religion Sense and reason saith there is no need of Remission before there be a guilt nor is there guilt before the sin be committed no need of a Plaister before there be a wound prepared aforehand it may be and laid ready but application of it must needs come in after the malady Then for the ground of Religion 1. In the fifth Petition we are taught to pray for the pardon of sin Now prayer is an act of Faith and hope and both these are de futuris of things expected and not in present possession Faith looketh upon the Promise hope upon the performance neither of them upon the possession No man prayeth for what he hath in hand or for what is compleatly done and past already I know what is usually said viz. That not the pardon it self but the assurance the feeling and comfort of it is that which is desired in the Petition Nor do I deny but that in respect of sins past and formerly pardoned this is so We play for greater assurance of that pardon because our Faith is like a narrow-mouthed Bottle which though cast into the sea yet is not filled but by degrees Or rather we pray for the continuance of assurance we have received not as if God were off and on with us or would revoke what he had given But because this daily Petition is a mean appointed of God to work that continuance and no sooner do we cease to pray and take off our eye from God in Christ but we cease to believe and receive that continuance Thus I say it is in respect of sins past but now for the sins that daily are committed it is the direct pardon of them which we desire of God in that Petition Nor can the words receive any other sense except we should wrest them