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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29414	A Brief account of the state of the differences now depending and agitated about justification, and some other points of religion declaring plainly wherein both sides agree and wherein they differ.		1692 (1692)	Wing B4521; ESTC R31279	7,448	14

hath shewn him 5. Again some say There are no habits of Grace but the influences of the Spirit are instead of them which is a mistake for this denies all Sanctifying of the faculties growth in Grace distinctions of Grace in Believers c. 6. Again some say That the sufferings Christ underwent were not the very same that were threatned in the Law and the damned suffer but only equivalent to them For they say Christ suffered not the loss of God's Image in his Soul as man did as a Punishment for sin To this it 's answer'd This is to say That Christ must become a Sinner that he may save Sinness when if so he could not save them at all Cannot a Surety pay a debt for the discharge of the Debtor unless he become as wicked as it may be the Debtor is Christ was never sick and yet sickness came upon mens bodies as a fruit and punishment of Sin Christ suffered the Idem of that Punishment that was due to man for Sin so far as might consist with the work he came upon which was to Redeem and Restore man And he redeemed man by his Blood and restores him by his Spirit Had he suffered the Loss of God's Image he could not have performed perfect Obedience to the Law he could not have offered up himself a pure Sacrifice for Sin he could not have been a pattern of perfect Holiness to his People But it behoved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren sin only excepted Heb. 2.17 Was man under the Curse of the Law So was he Was man by Sin deprived of the light of God's Countenance So was he for a time Was man to suffer the sence of God's wrath So did he Was man to die and to return to the Earth out of which he was taken So did he So that he suffered the same kind of Punishment that was due to man It 's true his sufferings were not Eternal because he paid the debt to the full which the damned in Hell cannot do and therefore also they despair which Christ never did because he knew he should and could deliver himself which they know they cannot do and therefore despair So that in this there is a Difference 7. Another Difference is about the Moral Law That it doth not remain as it did requiring perfect Obedience and threatning death to every Trangression still Which is judged an error For Christ tells us Mat. 6.18 That heaven and earth shall pass away but not one tittle of the law Luk. 16.17 And that he came not to destroy the law but fulfil it Only there is provision made in the Blood of Christ for the Pardon of sins against the Law to Penitent Believers So that some lower degrees of Obedience are not come in the room of that perfect Obedience which was at first required by the Law 8. That no Believer ought to have respect to any benefit to himself in any Duties he doth perform Which is judged a great mistake For may we not ask that we may have and seek that we may find as our Saviour speaks And look to the recompence of reward as Moses did for what we either do or suffer for God in this World And by the same reason we should not have respect to another's good neither 9. That not only the guilt but the filth of Sin was laid upon Christ That is the obliquity of the very act and the rebellion that is in it against God was charged upon Christ as guilty of it which is judged a very false and blasphemous Error Whereupon they say Christ became odious to his Father and abhorred by him when he Offered up himself a Sacrifice an offering to God of a sweet smelling savor Eph. 5.2 Christ indeed had our sin imputed to him and the sence of God's wrath against sin in his Soul whereby God testified his indignation against sin but not against his Son What was laid upon Christ was done away but the Act of sin was not done away though the guilt of it was 10. That Faith and Repentance are contained in the Moral Law and were written in man's Nature Which is judged a mistake For what was writ in man's heart did respect only the Moral Law or Covenant of Works where there is no mention of the Righteousness of Faith or any admittance of Repentance for sin 11. That the Gospel doth not promise life to Penitent sinners but the Impenitent because the Penitent have life already Which is judged an Opinion contrary to the whole Tenor of the Gospel It offers life to the Impenitent but doth not promise it 12. That the Gospel is nothing else but a Promise Which is judged a great mistake unless taken in a very strict sense For we find many Precepts and Threatnings in it according to which Christ 〈…〉 in executing his Kingly Office in his Church And there●●●● 〈…〉 ●●●tainly a mistake that for sins against the Gospel men 〈…〉 to the Law for Punishment and shall not be judged by the Gospel at all 13. That a Christian ought not to make 〈…〉 inward Grace or Qualifications to examine his State by Which is judged a grea● mistake Doth not the Apostle Paul judge of the Thessalonians Election by their Faith receiving the word with much assurance 1 Thess 1.5 And the Apostle John by love by love to the brethren 1 John 3.14 As a Man's bad state may be judged of by evil habits and qualifications so may not his good state be judged of by good habits and qualifications Especially when made evident in an holy Conversation Doth not our Saviour himself direct us to judge of the Tree by the Fruits Mat. 7.20 And the Apostle of the good state of the Philippians by partaking of his Grace Phil. 1.7 14. That Justifying Faith is a full persuasion of heart that we are Justified Which is another great mistake For the Scripture sets it forth by a coming to Christ receiving him and trusting in him that we may be Justified Gal. 2.16.3.24 15. To give Obedience on the ●●count of any Law-Sanction is legal Obedience whether new or old Law Which is a mistake and doth exclude all Obedience 16. That there is a work of Sanctification wrought in the Soul before Justification in a sinners first Calling the Apostle saying Rom. 8.30 Whom he called them he justified which is judged an error For calling taken in a strict sence is either the outward Call of the Gospel or the first answer of the Soul of a sinner to this Call in a willingness to leave his former sin and to come to Christ as King Priest and Prophet that he may be Justified and Sanctified by union with him Some other Differences I might mention but these are the Principal Thus for the sake of those that have not time to read long Discourses and cannot comprehend nice distinctions and controversies in Religion I have publish'd this plain Sheet Which I wish may be a Winding-sheet to our late Differences and an Instrument of Truth and Peace and of maintaining that Brotherly Union which hath been long desired and much endeavoured and at last happily effected and in the presence of God and Angels Attested and Solemnized Amen FINIS