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A45146 One sheet (or second letter) concerning the difference in some points which is between our united brethren, in order to accommodation Humfrey, John, 1621-1719. 1695 (1695) Wing H3696A; ESTC R219058 7,417 8

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upon our Repentance Remission of Sins What! was our Lord Jesus think you a Man of one business Had he but one Work from his Father to do and now has no more When he stray'd from his Parents at twelve years old to dispute with the Doctors wot you not that he was then about his Father's business And was that business the Work of Redemption What! was the work of his three Offices King Priest and Prophet all but one Work Nay was not the Impetration of our Redemption or reconciling God to us one Work and the reconciling us to God and Application thereof another He laid down his Life to Redeem us he rose from the dead to Apply this Redemption by working in us through the Spirit the Condition which he requires in order to the benefits purchased and which having then received all Power he gives forth to whom it is decreed as the dispenser of the Treasure of his Father's Election This was that I say he covenanted with his Father for that performing of the Law of Mediatorship as to the laying down his Life for Sinners that whosoever believes in him may be saved he should upon his rising be exalted to this farther Office to be Prince and Savi●ur to give this Faith or Condition to whom he pleases for their salvation That this is so and must be so let us consider No Man can rationally apprehend that any bene●its Christ hath purchased for him or at least any Saving benefit can be his unless Christ be his Christ must be ours if his Benefits be ours Christ is given with his Benefits He that hath the Son hath Life and he that hath not the Son hath not Life Now I argue seeing it is Faith makes Christ ours or unites us to him and before we have Faith we have not Christ who is had or made ours by Faith this Faith it self cannot be a Benefit purchas'd for us by him because then we must have one of his purchased Saving-benefits before we have Him We must have Faith I say before we have Christ Faith is this Condition The Condition consequently is not cannot be one of the Benefits flowing from Christ's Purchase but such a Gift an absolute Gift as Christ himself is arising meerly from God's free Breast altogether To inculcate this yet a little the common Opinion of the Orthodox is That the Gospel-Covenant is conditional That Faith therefore must antecede the Benefits and yet that Faith or the Condition it self is purchased by Christ's Redemption for the Elect as well as the Benefits upon condition When the Question then is ask'd Whether the Elect have any Benefit any Saving-Benefit by Christ's death before they believe it is such a puzzling and indeed posing Question as must lead us either into that Point of Antinomianism that we are in Christ and justified before Faith or else into this Solution And here let me turn and look back upon occasion of these Third Thoughts on my late Book of Justification To understand aright St. Paul's Justification by Faith we must consider with whom it is he contends The Jews as the best skill'd in Rabbinical Learning does tell us did generally maintain the Doctrine of Freewill not doubting but every one could do as God commanded if he would himself * This is the meaning of that Jewish saying All things are in the power and disposal of Heaven except the Fear of God for that they believed was in their own they having no Notion as Pelagius at first of Grace All that God hath spoken we will do and having receiv'd the Law from God's Mouth the Excellency whereof was their Glory they supposed in the observation of the outside that they kept it accounting the Reward promised therein due to them thereupon from God as what in Justice they merited for their Deeds insomuch as some thought themselves so righteous as not to sin at all or need Pardon Touching the Law blameless and others that sinned being lick'd whole by Sacrifice they thought all well boasting themselves as the Only People the Only Righteous in the Earth Not to mention what we all know out of the Acts that some of them that were Converts to Christianity did yet remain of the opinion that their Law was to be kept The Apostle now sets himself against these Jews and lets them know that no man neither Jew nor Gentile is Righteous in God's sight whatsoever they were in their own but that all have sinned and need that Messias they expected to make Reconciliation for their Sins That our Lord Jesus Christ being that true Messias by his Death answering their Legal Sacrifices hath born the Curse of the Law and so redeemed us from it That Gods undeserved Goodness here in accepting of Sinners through this meritorious Sacrifice of his to Pardon and Life upon Condition which he gives the Grace also to perform presupposed and by me acknowledg'd it is another Righteousness and not that of the Jews not that Paul calls his own as a Jew or not a Righteousness of Works perfect Works but a Righteousness of Faith which makes the Reward only of Grace of Faith that it may be of Grace of Faith but a true Faith working by Love which is an internal Righteousness though imperfect and not as the external Works of the Jews was is that Righteousness of God in opposition to the terms of the Law whereby we are justified and saved The Apostle I observe in one place speaking of Faith calls it the Obedience of Faith the same word if you compare one Text Rom. 11.30 31. with the Margin signifying both to believe and obey And the People believed God and his Servant Moses I will conclude hereupon that Christ's Redemption in the immediate fruit thereof which is the Grant of a General Pardon through his Satisfaction to all the World on Condition being laid as a foundation To be justified by Faith is to be justified by performing that Condition To be justified by Faith believe me at part●●● is in St Paul's Mind to be justified by the Obedience of Faith 〈◊〉 is in Paul's mind I say opposing the Jew by embracing the C●●●stian Religion and living according to it Sir The Design Sum and End of this poor Sheet of mine and the printing of it comes all to this Opinionum variet as Opin●●●ium Vnit as non sunt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In God's Name therefore do you and your Brethren unite and re-unite as much as you will is Practicals but forbear and bear with one another in Opinions And I pray those who have my late mentioned Book where they find in the end a Letter to Mr. Williams that they will please to stitch this Sheet to it John Humfrey London Printed for T. Parkhurst near Mercers-Chappel 1695.