Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	faith_n	justify_v	righteousness_n	30,963	5	8.3122	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26868	An appeal to the light, or, Richard Baxter's account of four accused passages of a sermon on Eph. I,3 published in hope either to procure the convincing instructions of the wise, or to humble and stop the erroneous resisters of the truth.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1674 (1674)	Wing B1190; ESTC R10225	5,296	10

AN APPEAL TO THE LIGHT OR RICHARD BAXTER's ACCOUNT OF Four accused Passages of a SERMON on EPH. 1. 3. Published in hope either to procure the convincing instructions of the wise or to humble and stop the erroneous Resisters of the Truth Read Ioh. 3. 20 21. and Iam. 3. LONDON Printed for Nevil Simmons at the Princes-Arms in St. Paul's Church-yard 1674. An Appeal to the LIGHT c. IN the Sermon accused by some having before opened 50 Blessings or Priviledges of Believers through Christ I named 20 counterfeit Priviledges asserted by the Libertines called Antinomians corrupting the Gospel of Jesus so many have since accused that Sermon though no one to my self that I think it my duty to give this repetition of those 4 points which I hear they speak against I. I did assert that Christ's righteousness even habitual active and passive exalted by his Divine righteousness being the fulfilling of his Law and Covenant of Mediation hath perfectly merited the Reconciliation Pardon Justification Adoption Sanctification Glory and all the good which ever we receive to be given us freely in his own time and on his own terms by his new Covenant by his Spirit and by his Providence and that we are as justly and certainly justified pardoned and saved by and for this meritorious righteousness and sacrifice of Christ as if we had done and suffered all our selves and that he suffered for us and in our stead that we might not suffer and fulfilled all righteousness for us that were sinners and to these proper uses we have and need no other righteousness and though it be not a Scripture phrase we may truly say that thus Christ's righteousness is imputed to us But Christ did all this in the person of a Mediator and not as our Delegate Servant or Agent nor full Representer of our persons that is his person and the person of each sinner were not the same indeed or in Law-sense nor did God so judge them God did not so impute our sins to him as to take the very sins themselves to be his own sins for then they would denominate him accordingly and make him actually hateful to God as they do us and his person would be corrupted by them it is therefore ill language and strictly not true to say that Christ was not only an Ignorant Infidel Atheist a Blasphemer a Murderer an Adulterer a Lyer but the greatest Sinner in the World and the worst Person as having the sins of all the World or elect made in themselves his very sins It was only the punishment which he underwent as a voluntary sacrifice of propitiation And it is not true that we did our selves fulfil all righteousness and satisfie justice by and in Christ as personating us nor that God doth judge us to have done all this in and by him and so take us to be such as never sinned as having from our birth to our death perfectly done all commanded us by another nor are we justified by the Law of innocency as no sinners but from that Law by the Law of Grace else we could have no need of Christ's death and satisfaction nor be capable of any pardon nor pray for pardon nor use any means for pardon nor give any thanks for it nor need a Law of Grace to give it us nor a Sacrament to seal it to us for he that is reputed never to have sinned but to have perfectly kept the Law hath no sin to pardon or to be washed from by the blood of Christ. And this maketh all God's punishing corrections of us for sin to be none or to be unjust if we are reputed such as never sinned or such as have made perfect satisfaction by another Christ's righteousness is ours as to the effects uses and ends and in the time measure and order determined by himself but it is not ours in the same sense as it is his for his person and ours being not the same though Union make us members of his Political Body not of his Natural the same accident cannot be in two yea innumerable subjects Christ's righteousness is Divine as well as Humane and so is his Essence and is Infinite and is very God but we have no righteousness which is our Essence Infinite and is very God we are not Gods Christ's habitual righteousness is exclusive of all sin or need of healing Grace or of a Saviour but so is not ours Christ was the very Agent of those acts that are his active righteousness but we did them not nor doth God mistake and think we did them it is not well said therefore that we are as righteous as Christ and more righteous than the Angels as having all the same righteousness that Christ hath as proprietors of it self but it is ours in and to all the fruits and effects of it as it pleased the Father and Son to convey them And lest any could not remember my words I told you that Mr. Bradshaw in a little Book of Iustification in Latin and English hath in a few lines in the Preface told you in what sense Christ's righteousness is and is not imputed to us just as I mean and to that I stand II. I said that we have no Righteousnesses of our own which answereth the Law of innocency or satisfyeth it Nor any which is in stead of the Righteousness of Christ or any of its proper uses nor any which is to joyn with Christs to the same uses and nearest ends nor must we ascribe to our own works the least degree of that which is proper to the meritorious Righteousness or Sacrifice or Grace of Christ But as Christ is our King and hath freely given his benefits by the way and terms of a Law of Grace the Baptismal Covenant so that Covenant or Law must be performed by us through his grace And we must be judged by that Law And we must have a Righteousness required by that Law in subordination to Christ's Meritorious Righteousness And by that personal Righteousness we must be justified against the contrary charge that is we must be justified by our faith against the charge of Infidelity and by our Repentance against the charge of Impenitency and by our Love Holiness Obedience and Sincerity against the charge of final unholiness rebellion and being hypocrites And the day of Judgment will not be to try Christ and his Righteousness but to honour it and try us and ours And all men shall be judged according to their own works And to be judged is to be justified or condemned And salvation or damnation will be adjudged us as we are found to have been personally righteous or unrighteous in respect to the terms of the Law of Grace that is Believers or unbelievers penitent or impenitent holy or unholy and no man shall be justified or saved by this plea Though I lived and dyed an Atheist Infidel Blasphemer impenitent unholy carnal a dishonest man a Thief a Murtherer an Adulterer yet Christ believed repented