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lord_n	death_n	jesus_n	life_n	17,697	5	4.4530	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70858	Christos dikaiosynē, or, Jesus Christ given of God the Father for our justification explained, confirmed, and applyed (very briefly) in one sermon to the satisfaction of some judicious hearers, for whose sake chiefly and at whose earnest request, it is made publick.	Pichard, Thomas.; Pritchard, Thomas, M.A.	1667 (1667)	Wing P3525; ESTC R14899	19,708	36

that we have done but to the Father of Mercies the Lord God omnipotent and to the Lamb that sits upon the Throne be all Honour and Glory Blessing and praise for evermore Revel 5.13 2 Tim. 1.9 2. The subordinate end is our Salvation Rom. 8.30 whom he hath justified them also he Glorified Tit. 3.7 That being justified by his Grace we should be made heirs of eternal life Though our salvation be our particular proper Our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 supream end or chief good to which both justification and sanctification are referred yet it is subordinate to Gods Glory as to the Soveraign and universal End for such is the infinite goodness of God to believing sinners that he hath subordinated their salvation to his own Glory The precious properties of this Righteousness how it is a divine righteousness a temptation vanquishing and a World-overcoming righteousness a Law fulfilling and a justice satisfying righteousness a most perfect righteousness a Glorious Robe of righteousness an everlasting righteousness c. Ye have heard at large discussed from another Text therefore I shall forbear to enlarge herein Lastly What are the blessed fruits and consequences of Justification I answer 1. Sanctification inherent with good works apparent which non praecedunt justificandum sed sequuntur justificatum as Austin speaks they do not go before but follow after a state of justification 2. Peace with God that is an holy Tranquility and sweet serenity of conscience Rom. 5.1 3. A free Access to God Rom. 5.2 4. Certain hope of Glory Rom. 5.2 5. 5. Consolation yea Gloriation in and over afflictions Rom. 5.3 6. The shedding abroad the love of God into the hearts of the justified Rom. 5.5 7. Conservation from wrath to come Ro. 5.9 8. Glorification and eternal life Rom. 8.30 Rom. 5.21 that as sin hath reigned unto death even so might Grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. A word or two at parting to the Justified by way of Application 1. Walk up to your Duty 2. Live up to your Comfort 1. Walk up to your Duty Ye that are the redeemed of the Lord the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus walk worthy of him who hath called you to his Kingdom and Glory As ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord so walk ye in him Col. 2.6 Receive not this Grace of God in vain this is a certain evidence of your freedome from Condemnation if ye walk not after the flesh but after the spirit Rom. 8.1 and herein is your father glorified if ye bring forth much fruit John 15.6 As your Receipts are great so give me leave to tell you your duty is and your Accompt will be great also so live so act so work that ye may give up your accompt with joy 2. Live up to the Comfort of your state ye are already the sons of God and it doth not yet appear what ye shall be 1 Joh. 3.1 who shall lay any thing to your charge whether men or Devils 't is God that justifieth it is Christ that died c. Ro. 8.33 Behold thy Treasures thy Comforts thy Joys thy Portion thy Priviledges laid up for thee in that precious Cabinet Rom. 5.1 2 3 4 5. Wherefore feed nay feast thy Soul by faith upon them wherefore in the worst of times the righteous shall be glad in the Lord and all the upright in heart shall glory Psalm 64.10 Thus so far as one Exercise would permit I have endeavoured to give some satisfaction in the great Argument of Justification Consider what I have said and the Lord give ye understanding 2 Tim. 2.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 FINIS

by nature through the sacrifice of Christ might become righteous before God He is our Advocate 1 Joh. 2.2 and propitiation Jesus Christ the Righteous yea he is our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our propitiatory or placatory Rom. 3.25 alluding to the Mercy-seat 1 Cor. 5.7 He is our Passeover sacrificed for us he is the Lamb of God slain for us that the wrath of God might pass over 1 Pet. 1.18 and pass away for ever from us and not fall down upon our heads if your hearts and Consciences are sprinkled with the blood of Christ as the Door-posts of the Children of Israel were with the blood of the Paschal-lamb Exod. 12.7 the wrath of God will for ever pass by you and not pass upon you Thus Jesus Christ is a merciful and faithful High-priest Heb. 2.17 merciful to us in misery pittying us in our guilt and blood faithful to God and to us also in the faithful discharge of his Priestly Office for us in being our Price our Ransom in discharging our Bond in pacifying the Fathers wrath in satisfying divine Justice in finishing Transgression in making an end of sin in bringing in everlasting Righteousnesse and so in bringing us to God 1 Pet. 3.18 Now as he is our merciful and faithful High Priest Justitia hoc est justificator noster donans nos vera justitiâ coram Deo per fidem Ad sacerdotale munus Christi hoc pertinet Pareus in 1 Cor. 1.30 so he is our Righteousnesse 1 our Justifyer endowing us with a perfect Righteousness before God through faith this belongs to the Priestly Office of Christ Jesus Christ is the Author or the procuring cause of our justification as he is the Author of our eternal Salvation Heb. 5.9 And this he doth two wayes 1. By making an Atonement for us on Earth 2. By making intercession for us in Heaven He hath made reconciliation for us by his blood upon the Crosse Rom. 5 1● and he doth continue to make intercession for us by the prevalent and loud cryes of the same blood in Heaven Heb. 12.24 He is gone up to Heaven to appear in the presence of God for us Heb. 9.24 just as Aaron a type of Christ Exod. 28.12 29. and 30. verses was to bear the name of the children of Israel a figure of all the Elect of God engraven in precious stones upon his Shoulders and upon his Heart when he went into the holy Place for a memorial before the Lord continually So our Lord Christ is entred into the Heavens with red and glorious Garments to appear in the presence of God for us there is not the least Believer but his name is as it were engraven upon the Shoulders Breast-plate and Heart of Christ Of all cryes the cryes of blood are the strongest the loudest whether for or against a guilty person Abels blood cryed aloud to God for vengeance Gen. 4.10 but this blood of sprinkling speaketh better things than that of Abels it pleads sues presses hard for a discharge from all thy sins and enemies it cryes aloud for mercy peace and pardon Lord saith Christ here is my price and my purchase my Redemption and my redeemed Ones here is my Righteousness and here are the persons justified by it whatever charge or guilt lyes upon them here are the shoulders that have sustained the weight of thy wrath which was their due upon these shoulders and in this heart thou mayest behold all their names engraven acquit and absolve th m for my sake Father I will that they be righteous by my Righteousness and glorious with my Glory My tears my stripes my wounds my groans my anguish my Blood the tortures of my Body the torments of my Soul do all pray and plead prevailingly that all believing sinners be justified and saved Thus Christ appears in Heaven with red Garments with Garments rolled in blood and with the whites of peace pardon justification and absolution upon the red with all the names of his justified sanctified ones engraven upon his shoulders and upon his heart before the Lord continually to present his everlasting Righteousness to the Father for us to present our persons as righteous and spotless enwrap'd in that glorious Robe of Righteousness and to impropriate and apply his everlasting Righteousness to us Thus I have proved that Christ is our Righteousness Vox justificandi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 inde justificationis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 propriè fere semper forinseca forensis actio est judicis judicii scilicet in rei absolutione condemnationi opposita Synop. Pur. Theol. p. 434. Justificare absolvere à est morte non condemnare Syntag. Polan p. 455. 2. We come in the next place to open the meaning of the word justifie Justification is a Law-state and the words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are verba forensia or judicial or Court-Terms taken from Courts of Justice It imports the absolution of a guilty person the word justification is in holy Writ opposed to condemnation To justifie saith Polanus is to absolve from death not to condemn Though justificare sometimes may note as much as justum facere if you respect the notation of the Latin word as magnificare importeth to magnifie or make great neither is it to be doubted but that the Lord doth constitute or make those just whom he justifieth they are just both by the imputation of Christs Righteousness which is out of them in Christ as being his personal righteousness and by infusion of righteousness as it were by influence into them from Christ their Head to the faithful belongs a two-fold Righteousness the one of Justification the other of Sanctification Reverend Downam's Treatise of Justification p. 2 3. I shall make it evident saith the learned Bishop Downame that the Hebrew Hitsdiq and the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is verbum forense a judicial word taken from Courts of justice which being attributed to the Judge is opposed to Condemnation and signifieth to absolve Justificare est justum reputare justum pronunciare or to give sentence with the party questioned Thus far he So that to justifie both from Scriptures and the writings of the Fathers is as much as to absolve or acquit a believing sinner from guilt and condemnation and to accept him as righteous through the righteousness of Jesus Christ To justifie is to repute and pronounce a man just or righteous Justification is opposed to Condemnation Rom. 8.33 it is God that justifies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not one condemnation to them that are in Christ J sus Rom. 8.1 i. e. acquits absolves who shall condemn so the word is taken Deut. 25.1 The Judges are commanded to justifie the righteous and to condemn the wicked l●kewise Prov. 17.15 he that justifies the wicked and condemns the righteous they are both an abomination to the Lord. So