because reconciliation supposeth a breach first made by sin now the breach made betwixt God and Man by sin was not from Eternity but in time and therefore reconciliation could not be from Eternity and without reconciliation by shedding of blood there is no remission as Heb. 9.22 i. e. No Justification to the Church of Gods Elect for Remission of sins is their Justification Part. 3. This Doctrine of Justification from Eternity destroyeth and overthroweth the true Doctrine of Justification it self also which is another fundamental point of the Christian Faith and therefore this Doctrine of Justification from Eternity cannot be true Now the true Doctrine of Justification is that Act of Gods Grace passed or put forth upon the person Elect whereby of a guilty ungodly and unrighteous person before he is really made and doth become a righteous person in Gods sight through Faith in his Son Jesus Christ given unto him I say he is made and doth become a righteous person in Gods sight and that really and not by opinion only as some would imagine and here are two things to be cleared as namely 1. That every man in this World is really made and doth become a guilâ—y and condemned person in Gods sight by the first sin of Adam justly imputed to him by the Law so Rom. 3.9 10 and again ver 19 20. which the Apostle plainly affirmeth by a comparison of the two Adam's Rom. 5.19 For as by one mans disobedience many were made sinners c. ver 18. Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came or it came upon all men to condemnation in Gods sight So that 't is plain the many ver 19. is all men ver 18. even the Elect of God as well as others 2. That as in the first Adam all men did become and were really made sinners in Gods sight by the just imputation of Adam's sin to them by the Law even so in Christ many as v. 19. or all men as ver 18. i. e. all that believe are justified i. e. are made and do become righteous in Gods sight through Faith in Christ by the righteousness of one or by the obedience of one justly imputed to them by the Law of Faith and Grace So that as before Justification every man was really a guilty and unrighteous person in Gods sight So now that Faith in Christ is come every man that believeth is justified and doth become and is made a righteous person in Gods sight So that Justification maketh a real change of State from a state of sin and unrighteousness and death to a state of Grace Righteousness and Life Now therefore he that is Justified from Eternity was from Eternity in a state of Grace Righteousness and Life and never was in a state of Sin Unrighteousness and Death he never was a Sinner Ungodly and condemned in Gods sight and Sin had never raigned in him unto Death in whom Grace had raigned unto Life through Righteousness from all Eternity but the contrary is true in all them whom God Justifieth as Rom. 4.5 Now to him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his Faith is counted for Righteousness and Rom. 5.6 For when we were yet without strength in due time Christ died for the Ungodly and v. 21. That as sin hath reigned unto death even so might Grace reign through Righteousness unto Eternal Life by Jesus Christ our Lord So that we who are now Justified by Faith in Christ were without strength were ungodly were under the reign of Sin unto Death but he that was Justified from Eternity was never any of these and therefore no man was or could be Justified from Eternity there is a contradiction in the things themselves and therefore this Doctrine is inconsistent with the truth for Sin did not reign unto death in any from Eternity but in Time therefore Grace could not reign through Righteousness unto Life in any from Eternity but in time Part. 4. This Doctrine of Justification from Eternity destroyeth also the Doctrine of Adoption which inseparably followeth Justification and is another inseparable point of the Christian Faith I say Adoption followeth and is an inseparable companion of Justification by Faith in Christ he that is Justified by Faith in Christ is also adopted and taken into the number of Gods Sons or Children by the same Faith as Gal 3.24.25.26 That we might be justified by Faith v 24. But after that Faith is come v. 25. Ye are all the Children of God by Faith in Christ Jesus by the same faith by which any man is Justified by the same Faith also he is Adopted and made a Son or Child of God and so again Gal. 4 4 5 7. Now no man was Adopted from Eternity and therefore no man was Justified from Eternity And he that was Adopted from Eternity was never a Servant but a Son was never a Child of Disobedience a Child of Wrath as Ephes. 2.2 3. but a Child of God from eternity and then there never could be any Predestination to the Adoption of Children as Ephes. 1.5 that the Adoption of Children had been from eternity Part. 5. This Doctrine of Justification from Eternity denieth destroyeth and overthroweth by consequence the truth and doctrine of discrimination or making a difference betwixt the state of Nature and the state of Grace which the holy Scriptures do every where establish The state of Nature according the Scriptures is a state of Sin and so of Death and Condemnation as hath been already shewed But the state of Grace is a state of Righteousness and so of Life and Justification as hath also been declared through Faith in the Son of God Rom. 9.30 and Rom. 10.4 John 5.24 and 1 John 4.14 Now he that saith he was Justified from Eternity saith that he was in a state of Life from Eternity and by consequence never was in a state of Sin and Death for Justification is Life as Condemnation is Death Rom. 5.18 but most certain it is that all were dead and in a state of sin and condemnation before they believed on Christ even the Elect of God as well as others as 2 Cor. 5.14 And the death of Christ for all the Elect doth prove that they were all dead and in a state of Death Jews and Gentiles for else Christ needed not to have died for them and the love of Christ doth constrain all them to acknowledge that they were dead and therefore are debtors to Christ for their Life and Justification through Faith in him and so no more to live to themselves but to him that died for them and rose again The words are most plain and the sense most genuine For the love of Christ constraineth us because we thus judge that if one died for all then were all dead And that he died for all that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves but unto him which died for them and rose again Therefore seeing they were once dead
before the new Therefore Justification and Life through Faith in Christ was not from Eternity but in Time though these things were laid in the purpose and counsel of God from Eternity yet they were not nor could be but in time And if any will say God calleth things that are not as if they were 't is most true but let such consider that all those things are still things that are not till God brings them forth in time Thus have we tryed this Doctrine and find it most contrary to the holy Scriptures As the Apostle Paul â—ryed the Doctrine of them who denied the Resurrection under pretence that it was past a ready whom he convinceth and confuâ—eth by the necessary consequences of their Doctrine as 1 Cor. 15 12 20. And having finished the tryal of the first opinion or doctrine of Justification from Eternity we now proceed to the second namely 2. Doctrine That they that are Christs were all justified in Christ their head from the time of Christs Death or Resurrection when the price was paid and satisfaction made by Christ and he as head was justified and discharged by his Resurrection the question therefore is Quest. Whether the Church of Gods Elect were Justified at from or in the time of Christs Death and Resurrection Or whether Believers may and ought to dteâ—he time of their Justification from the time of Christs Death and Resurrection Answ. To this we answer by distinguishing and that truly betwixt the Time and the Thing it selfe and accordingly 1. We do affirm and conclude and that most surely according to the Scriptures that all that are Christs the whole Church of Gods Elect are â—ustified from by through and upon the satisfaction Merit Virtue and Efficacy of Christs Death declared by his Resurrection as Rom. 3.24 25 26. and again Ephes. 1.7 Rom. 4 ult and Rom. 5.8 9. and Luke 24.46 47. Thus it is written and thus it behoved Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day that repentance and remission of sins should be Preached in his name among all nations beginning at Jerusalem And this is certain that Remission of Sins or Justification cannot be preached to any but upon the account of Christs Death and Resurrection viz. The satisfaction merit and efficacy of his Death manifested and declared by his Resurrection according to Rom. 1.4 and 1 Tim. 3.16 Manifested in the Flesh Justified in the Spirit 2. We do also affirm and conclude according to the Scriptures that all that have been are now or shall hereafter be Justified from the beginning of the World to the end thereof have been are now and shall hereafter be Justified by the same satisfaction vertue merit and efficacy of Christs Death declared by his Resurrection and no otherways as Heb. 13.7 8. Whose Faith follow considering the end of their Conversation Jesus Christ the same yesterday and to day and for ever 'T is evident from the context that he setteth before them the doctrine and example the faith and conversation of such as had spoken the Word of God to them in which expression he comprehendeth all the Holy Prophets under the Old Testament and those Holy Servants of God whom he had mentioned chap. 11. particularly and then more generally referred them to ch 12.1 as so great a Cloud of Witnesses I say all these of the Old Testament as well as the Apostles under the New Testament together with their present Ministers when he saith Remember them which have Rule over you or which are the guides and so rule by way of conduct for other rule the Servants of God have none or ever had who have spoken unto you the Word of God whose Faith follow considering the end of their conversation Jesus Christ the same yesterday and to day and for ever by yesterday is meant all the time that is past by to day the present time and by forever is all the time yet to come from the foundation of the World to the end of it And if so the same Christ Jesus was promised prophesied and preached to them as truly as unto us and was believed on by them as well as by us and by the same Faith which they had in this Jesus Christ they were justified and saved and became the Heirs of the same Righteousness of Faith as well as we Heb. 11.1 This Faith is described and then Abel Enoch Noah Abraham Sarah Isaac and Jacob the heirs with Abraham of the same promise and the promise was Christ Justification and Salvation in Christ with Eternal Glory and then mentioning Joseph Moses Rahab also a Heathen And then Gideon Barak Sampson Jeptha David and Samuel the Prophet with others Men and Women tells you These all obtained a good report through Faith before Christ the Seed of the Woman and the Seed of Abraham and David promised was come in the Flesh or Humane nature before his Death and Resurrection and yet believed on Christ embraced him and were justified and saved by Faith in him all along as well as we are now Christ is come hath died and rose again so Rom. 4.23 24 25. So that 't is most plain Christ is the same yesterday as he is to day and so forever i. e. in all Ages and Generations yet to come as John 17.20 Neither pray I for these alone but for them also that shall believe on me through their word that they all may be one This shall believe on me reacheth to the end of the World so long as Christ shall be Preached and men shall believe on him through their word of whom Christ saith Mat. ult ult and lo I am with you alway even to the end of the World So that Christ Jesus is the same yesterday and to day and forever And all that are justified to day as well as all that were justified yesterday and all that shall be justified for ever i. e to the end of the World have been are and shall be still justified by the satisfaction merit vertue and efficacy of Christs Death declared by his Resurrection who was the Lamb slain from the Foundation of the World Rev. 13 8. as all the sacrifices types and prophecies did there concerning him that he should be slain and riâ—e again and in that respect was both the Goat for our Sin Offering or Sacrifice and likewise our Scape-goat let go and escaped from Death when he had born our Sins I say let go and escaped by a glorious Resurrection and so as the Lamb of God did bear away or take away the Sins of World John 1.29 Did bear or carry them away into a Land of forgetfulness i. e. where none of them shall be remembred And thus far we do affirm and consent concerning the justification of the whole Church of Gods Elect from the death of Christ i. e. from and upon the satisfaction merit virtue and efficacy of his death and that none are justified or have redemption but through his blood and faith
justified from the time of Christs death according to this Doctrine so that they were as much and as truly justified in their unbelief impiety unregeneracy and enmity as ever they were or came to be justified afterwards when they believed and embraced Christ which is most contrary to the Scriptures Acts 13.38 39 Rom. 4.23 Ephes. 2.11 12 13. and Rom. 8.30 Whom he called them be also justified Paul when Saul a Blasphemer Persecutor and Iniurious was as truly justified as Paul when called a Convert a Believer and a Preacher of Jesus Christ contrary to the Scriptures 1 Tim. 1.13 14 15 16. and Acts 22.16 For Saul continued Unconverted Uncalled a Blasphemer a Persecutor and Injurious Ignorant and an Unbeliever long after Christs Death and Resurrection and yet according to this Doctrine must be justified when he lived and continued in impenitency and unbelief and disobedience till that time yea and all those Corinthians mentioned 1 Cor. 6 11. And such were some of you But ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God Now look back into the 9. and 10. verses Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God Be not deceived neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor efeminate nor abusers of themselves with mankind nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor revilers nor extortioners shall inherit the Kingdom of God And such were some of you Plainly implying that when ye lived in these sins uncalled unconverted impenitent and unbelievers then you were not washed nor sanctified nor justified but now since you were called and converted 't is otherwise with you than it was before But ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God Ye were not justified before but now ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus i. e. since ye believed on that name then ye were not washed nor sanctified while ye wallowed in the mire of these sins but now ye are washed ye are sanctified by the Spirit of our God Therefore they were not justified from the time of Christs death and resurrection but from the time of their calling to Faith â—n Christ who dyed and rose again long before And that this must be the true sense of the Apostle appeareth in that he tells them but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus He thereby concludeth and that truly they were not justified before though the time of Christs Death and Resurrection was past before And thus have we finished also the tryal of this second Opinion or Doctrine of Justification from the time of Christs Death and Resurrection and find it not to be a true Doctrine a Doctrine not of God All therefore which now remaineth to be done is to shew and assign the true time and season of Gods Justifying his Elect and from whence the truly justified person may humbly date his own Justification according to the holy Scriptures and have the seal of God in the true witness of his holy Spirit in the word for the proof it Lastly therefore The due time and season of Gods justifying his Elect through Faith in his Son Jesus Christ according to the Scriptures is the time of their respective believing embracing receiving and entertaining Christ Christ in the promise or the promise in Christ for all the promises are yea and Amen in Christ 2 Cor. 1.20 Not a promise alone without Christ for that is to be suspected the promise when given by the Father and applyed by the Spirit is never alone or separate from Christ but always in Christ and together with him Even as Abraham is said to have received the promises when he offered up his only Son Heb. 11.17 But Abraham did not receive the promise or promises alone i. e. without Christ the substance of all the promises but he received the promise in Christ or Christ in and through the promises For as God made no promise of Eternal Life out of Christ but in Christ and through him so we can receive no promise or promises of Eternal Life and Salvation but in Christ and Christ in and together with the promise And therefore Abraham is said to have received the promise of God in Christ as God gave it to him so he received it in Christ as Gal. 3.16 17 18. He therefore that believeth with a justifying and saving Faith receiveth Christ in the promises and embraceth not the promises alone but Christ in the promise and therefore union with Christ and receiving Christ into the heart and promises and all things else together is the true Faith of Gods Elect and the Faith of the operation of God as 1 John 5.11 12. This is the reward that God hath given to us Eternal Life and this Life is in his Son He that hath the Son hath Life and he that hath not the Son of God hath not Life and Joh. 1.11 12. He came to his own and his own received him not But to as many as received him to them gave he power to become the Sons of God even to them that believe on his name So that in short Faith is receiving Christ and without Christ be received there is no believing and where there is no believing there is no justification The true time therefore of God's justifying his Elect is the time of their believing i. e. of their receiving and embracing Christ then and not before and thence ever after God doth justifie his Elect And they may from thence date the time of their justification acccording to the Scriptures As it was with Abraham so it is with all the Children of Abraham as it is written again and again Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for Righteousness Rom. 4.3 Now from the time that Abraham believed God from that time was he justified and ever after even so it is with all the Children of Abraham as Rom 4.23 24 25. Now it was not written for Abrahams sake alone that it was imputed to him but for us also to whom it shall be imputed If we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the Dead who was delivered for our Offences and raised again for our Justification Now therefore Christian the time of Gods imputing Righteousness to thee and justifying thee in Christ is not the time of Christs dying and rising again but the time of thy beâ—ieving on him and embracing him by Faith in thy heart who was deliver'd for thy offences and raised again for thy justification And to produce this Faith in thee and this believing God as Abraham did these three things must necessarily concur all which did concur in the Faith of Abraham as namely 1. There must be hearing The word of God must be truly preached to thee and thou must hear it or there neither is nor can be thâ—s Faith that justifieth
as Rom 10.17 So then Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God and as v. 14 15. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard And how shall they hear without a Preacher And how shall they Preach except they be sent i. e. seâ—t of God And thus God himself Preached the Gospel to Abraham Saying in thee and in thy seed shaâ—l the Families of the Earth or Nations be blessed as Gal. 3.8 compared with Gen. 12.3 and Gen. 2â— 18 So then Abrahams Faith came by â—â—aring Christ Preached 2. The Spirit of God muâ—t be given of God to thee and received of thee by hearing the Faith or Doctrine of Faith Preached as Gal. 4.2 Without which thou canst not receive the Spiritual things which the Gospel Preacheth but they will seem foolishness to thee because they are Spiritually descerned 1 Cor. 2.13 14. and 1 Cor. 1.21 22 23 24. Joh. 6.44 45. and again verse 60 66. The word preached I say will never be rightly understood till God by his Spirit openeth thy Heart to understand as Luk. 24.45 46. Acts 16.14 And thus God opened Abrahams Heart to understand the Gospel or the promise in Christ preached to him by the gift of his holy Spirit 3. This Faith must be wrought in thee by the same Spirit for this is the Faith of the operation of God as Col. 2.12 The gift of God as Eph. 2.8 Produced by the exceeding greatness of his power as when he raised Christ from the dead Eph. 1.17 18. Which was done by the power of the Holy Ghost Rom. 1.4 Rom. 8.15 And thus was Abrahams Faith wrought in him and it was given him to believe his Faith was not of himself but was the gift of God otherwise Abraham might have had whereof to boast but not before God as Rom. 4 2 3. 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therein for the propitiation of their Sins as Rom. 3.25 whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through Faith in his blood to declare his Righteousness for the Remission of Sins and v. 26. to declare I say at this time his righteousness that he might be just and the justifier of him which beâ—elieveth â—n Jesus Neg. But as concerning the Doctrine of Justification from the time of Christs Death and Resurrection more or rather than any other time or that the Church of Gods Elect are justified from the time of Christs Death or Resurrection we do utterly deny and reject and say the justification of his Body the Church doth no more commence from or depend upon the time of his Death and Resurrection than upon any other time before or after for 1 st If the justification of Gods Elect did commence from and depend upon the time of Christs Death and Resurrection so that they were not nor could be justified before that time then all those that were fallen asleep in Christ before the time of Christs Death and Resurrection are perished as 1 Cor 15.18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished The Consequence is plain and invincible for if they were not justified their Sins were imputed and not forgiven and if so then they died in their Sins and so are perished as John 8.12 If ye believe not that I am he ye shall die in your sins and this is eternal perdition or to perish for ever if they were not justified they were not righteous righteousness was not imputed to them and so they neither did not could inherit the Kingdom of God as 1 Cor. 6.9 Know ye not that the Unrighteous or Unjustified shall not inherit the Kingdom of God And so Abel Enoch Noah Abraham Isaac and Jacob Moses and Samuel and all the Prophets until John are perished and excluded out of the Kingdom of God yea John Baptist â—lso is perished and good old Simeon that took the Babe in his arms and blessed him and said Lord now lettest thou thy Servant depart in peace according so thy word for mine eyes have seen thy Salvation Luke 2.29 30 and Anna the Prophetess also v. 36. are perished For all these died before the time of Christs Death and Resurrection as is most plain and manifest But now these are not perished but were justified by Faith in their Life time and blessed in their death and live now unto God eternally in the Mansions of Heavenly Glory and for all this we have a sure word of Prophecy Abraham lived 430 years before the Law of Moses and above 2000 years before Christ came in the flesh and 30 years more before Christs Death and Resurrection and yet was as much justified by Faith in Christ as any man ever since or that will be to the end of the World and so were all the rest aforementioned and therefore justification is not reckoned from the time of Christs Death and Resurrection seeing all these were justified so long before that time 2. Then Christ himself is found a false Witness who came from the bosom of the Father and could declare and did declare the truth as John 1.18 I say then Christ himself is found a false Witness who testified of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and all the Prophets to be in the Kingdom of God Luke 13.28 There shall be weeping and gnashing of Teeth when you shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the Prophets in the Kingdom of God and you your selves thrust oâ—â— Now who are these ye and your selves these are many such as lived in and after the time of Christs Death and Resurrection and great Professors too as appeareth v. 26. When they shall say we have eat and drank in thy presence and thou hast taught in our Streets and also in that parallel place Mat. 7.22 Have we not Prophesied in thy name and in thy name have cast out Devils and in thy name have done many wonderful works all which must be after the time of Christs Death and Resurrection for the Spirit was not given for these extraordinary works and miracles till Christ was glorified and yet saith Christ ye shall see Abraham Isaac and Jacob and all the Prophets in the Kingdom of God and ye your selves thrust out so that those that lived before the time of my Death and Resurrection as Abraham Isaac and Jacob and all the Prophets ye shall see them hereafter when that day shall come which revealeth all things ye shall see them in the Kingdom of God and ye your selves who lived professed my name Prophesied and did miracles in my name after the time of my Death and Resurrection ye shall see your selves thrust out and though you cast out Devils in my name yet ye did not cast him out nor was he cast out of your own hearts But Christs Witness is most true and will be found so at the great day therefore let men take heed how they make him a Liar who is Truth it self for certainly Christ did not bear false witness when he testified to the Sick of the Palsie Mark 2.5 Son thy Sins be forgiven thee and when he testified in the House of Simon concerning the Woman that was and had been a great Sinner when she washed Christs feet with her tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head and brake so costly a Box of Ointment and poured it upon his head that all the room was filled with the odour thereof I say when he testified to Simon and all that were in the house concerning her Luc. 7.47 Wherefore I say unto thee her Sins which are many are forgiven for she loved much and when he testified to her v. 48. And he said unto her thy Sins are forgiven Forgiveness of Sins is justification and they had Faith in Christ wrought in them for Mark 2.5 when Jesus saw their Faith and Luke 7.50 And he said to the Woman thy Faith hath saved thee and yet the time of Christs Death and Resurrection was not yet come so that justification and Salvation through Faith in Christ was as sure and certain and as full and compleat to them that believed before the time of Christs Death and Resurrection as ever it was to any since or shall be to the end of the World therefore the justification of Gods Elect is no more dated or doth commence from the time of Christs death than from any time before or after 3. If the justification of Gods Elect should commence and bear date from the time of Christs Death and Resurrection then thousands of Gods Elect that were Born were Converted and called and have believed on Christ since the time of Christs Death and Resurrection in Ages and Generations until now were justified before they were Converted and Called before they receiv'd the Spirit by the hearing of Faith before they believed God or his word before they had any Faith wrought in them for they were