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A26316	Actual justification rightly stated containing a true narrative of a sad schism made in a church of Christ, at Kilby in Leicester-shire, proving, none of the elect are actually justified before faith.		1696 (1696)	Wing A459; ESTC R3827	24,143	28

the Manhood of Christ but they were as Righteous as God himself Quoting that Text 2 Cor. 5. 21. Again he the said Culy affirmed That Jesus Christ was the greatest Reprobate in the World Mr. Coleman's Maid-Servant hearing him utter these Words said Have a Care what you say for it is against the Person of Christ and 't is Blasphemie Something to the same Purpose another of them uttered lately in London Also Mr. D s July 1696. in a Sermon Perached in London mentioning that Text Hob 2. 14. 15. For verily he took not on him the Nature of Angels but he took on him the Seed of Abraham affirmed That Christ did not only take or assume the Seed or Nature of Abraham or of the Elect but he assumed the Persons of all the Elect also Which is contrary I think to what any Orthodox Minister ever asserted Brethren pray Consider That the human Nature which Christ assumed was Hypostatically united to the Divine Nature therefore if he assumed the Persons of all the Elect then all the Persons of Elect are brought into the Hypostatical Union in the Person of Christ But may be some may Object and say He only meant Christ assumed their Persons Representatively c. Answ That could not be his meaning because he brought in Christ as thhir Head and Representative c. as another distinct Argument to prove what he was upon But further to Confute his Notion take what Dr. Owen saith viz. It was our Nature he assumed and not the Person of 〈…〉 Then say I not the Persons of all the Elect. Again he saith Many 〈…〉 Persons cannot be Hypostatically Vnited for that is to be one Person and no 〈…〉 e There may be a manisold Vnion Mystical and Moral of divers of 〈…〉 y Persons but a Personal Vnion there cannot be of any thing but 〈…〉 distinct Natures And as the Son of God could not assume many Persons so 〈…〉 sing that human Nature which he did unite to himself to have been a Person 〈…〉 ere could have been no Personal Vnion between it the Son of God Again saith 〈…〉 It is only the assumption of our Nature unto Vnion with the Son of God An 〈…〉 edent unto any individual Personal Subsistence of it's own that can 〈…〉 ute such a Vnion In his Treatise Intituled Twofold Discourse concerning the Spirit p. 52 53 54. 15. This Notion of Justification before Faith seems directly contrary to those Scriptures that hold forth That we are Justified by Faith c. in 〈…〉 all that Believe are Justified and particularly that Text Gal. 2. 16. Even we have Believed that we might be Justified by the Faith of Christ 〈…〉 c. Not that we might know we were Justified before or might be in 〈…〉 own Consciences but that we might be actually Justified Justification 〈…〉 applied to Faith 1. not by Faith as our Orthodox Divines note as it is an act of ours 2. Not by Faith as it is the efficient cause thereof for in that Sense 't is God that Justifies 3. Not by Faith as the Meritori 〈…〉 s Cause of it for so we are Justified by the Blo●d of Christ 4. Nor that Faith procures it from any intrinsick Vertue simply Considered to be 〈…〉 that Grace but by Faith as an Instrument i. e. as a Hand that receives Christ and his Righteousness or applies the Remedy to our Souls Faith Justifie us Objectively as it apprehends Christ Suppose a Friend should offer to give me a Thousand Pounds and I stretch forth my Hand to receive it 't is not my Hand that inriches me but 't is the Gift given the 〈…〉 Hand applies to cure my Wounds doth not Heal me but 't is the said Balm But if by Faith we are Justified then not before it nor without it Moreover if by Faith we are actually united to Christ and are the Children of God then not united to him nor actually God's Children before we Believe They that were stung in the Wilderness the Type of guilty Sinners were not Healed before they looked up to the Brazen Serpent were not to look to it that they might know they were Healed or have the Declaration or feeling Sense of that Cure which they had before but by looking they were a tually Healed 16. Lastly This Doctrin of theirs tends to lead People to venture on Christ or throw themselves on Christ Presumptuously and conclude they are Justified tho' they continue Wicked and ungodly and do not experience the Effects of Christ's Death and Resurrection in themselves for tho' we affirm God Justifies the ungodly i. e. That we are such Just when we Believe and so come to Christ as Sinners as convinced and ungodly Sinners without any previous Qualifications yet Faith doth not leave us in and under the power of Sins but purifies our Hearts and Lives Faith hath a twofold Use First by God's Ordination as it apprehends and receives Christ 'tis said to Justifie us and by its own Spiritual Vertue it Rennovates and Sanctifies us I must Confess by reading some Passages in Mr. Ayre 's Treatise and that passage of Mr. Davis mentioned in this Narrative I cannot see that these Men by all the Noise they make about Justification before faith that 't is anything more than that which we call a decretive and Vertual Justification So that it appears 't is but about strife of Words that these poor People made that Schism in the Church at Kilby Mr. Davis says That the Elect are dead in Traspasses and Sins and under the declared condemnation of the Law and Gospel till they Believe and then and only then they are freed from Condemnation which I take says he to be actual Justification by faith And that he will stand by the Assemblies desinition of Justifying faith and that the Moral Law holds the Elect during their Vnregeneracy under t is condemning Force till they believe I would know what is it we say more or less Why then does this man make this Stir and Division in Churches Mr. Ayre saith Justification actively Considered as it is in God who is the Justifier was Compleat and Perfect before we had a being and in this Sense Faith is not the Instrument of it and Dr. Twisses whom he Quotes saith It was ours before we Believe in respect of right because of the intention of the Father and the Son tho' not in Possession and Enjoyment Ans Suppose a man intend to give and also purchase an Estate for a Child that shall proceed from my Loyns of the hundred Generation from me can that Child be said actually to have the posession of 〈…〉 t Estate so long before 't is born Nay to have any proper or personal right to it We deny not 〈◊〉 our right to Justification in respect of God's Decree and Intention before we were born nor of that Vertual right in Christ as our head and Representative at his resurrection Certainly these men fight only with their own Shaddows for what is