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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47098	A plain and familiar discourse on justification being the substance of four sermons, preach'd at the morning-lecture, at Pinners-Hall, in Broad street, the third, tenth, seventeenth, and twenty fourth days of September, 1693 / by Elias Keach.	Keach, Elias.	1694 (1694)	Wing K110; ESTC R13909	34,472	38

to the Giver 2. It doth denote God's dealing with us according to that which is so made ours even by Imputation God deals with us about this Righteousness in the same manner as this Righteousness is made ours by Imputation not by infusing Grace into us Beloved there is an Imputation Foederally or by Virtue of a Covenant Relation by which one Person is constituted as a common Head So the Sin of Adam was and is imputed to all his Posterity because Adam was constituted as a common Head and did personate all his Posterity and thus Christ the Second Adam being appointed our Covenant Head his Righteousness is accounted to all his Seed 2 Tim. 1.9 there we find that the Lord Jesus is our Head and he is intrusted with our all who hath saved us and called us with an holy Calling here Justification goes before Vocation Well but may some say It was for our Works no not according to our Works how then Why according to his own purpose and Grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the World began given us in Christ how so Why Christ was first our Covenant Head and was constituted from Eternity there was an Eternal Compact between the Father and the Son and the Father gave us to his Son and Christ did purpose to act and do for us that by which we are Justified now I say this was given us in Christ When was it given us in Christ When was it stor'd up in Christ and promised to Christ for us Was it when he came into the World after he was born of the Virgin Mary No it was before the World began that it was given to us in Christ and he is God and he was from the beginning John 1.1 2 3. All things were made by him and without him was not any thing made that was made Christ I say was constituted and appointed by the Father as our Covenant-head therefore as he did engage in the Eternal Compact before time so he did faithfully perform what he had promised to the Father in time He made compleat satisfaction for our Sins yea bore our Sins in his own Body on the Tree Pray see Phil. 18. where St. Paul writing to Philemon concerning Onesimus saith thus If he hath wronged thee or oweth thee ought put that on my Account Now do you see we have wronged God we have broken his Law and now the Lord Jesus Christ comes in and saith to Justice if he oweth thee ought put that to mine Accompt so saith St. Paul If he oweth thee ought or hath wronged thee put that on my Accompt Well Paul if it be put on thy Accompt thou must pay all the Debt Well saith he I Paul have written it with my own-Hand I will repay it v. 19. So the Lord Jesus entred into Convenant with the Father for us and did it as it were say I will repay it and he did so and made a full Satisfaction to Divine Justice for the Sins of all the Elect so we have a notable passage of Judah's to Jacob his Father concerning Benjamin Gen. 43.9 I will be Surety for him then Judah thou must expect that he will be required at thy Hand Well Well at my Hands thou shalt require him if I bring him not again c. Now do you see the Father gave to Christ all that shall be saved and Jesus Christ he stands in our room and is our Surety and Christ like Judah saith as it were to the Father thou shalt require them of me If I bring them not to thee vide John 6.37 All that the Father giveth unto me shall come unto me so John 10.28 I give them saith he Eternal Life and they shall never perish neither shall any pluck them out of my Hands P●ay take notice the Lord Jesus Christ is our Surety and hath us all in his Hands and he hath engaged with the Father for all his People he takes on him the Persons of the whole Church that hath sinned and answered for them Beloved as the first Adam's Sin was Imputed to all his Posterity so the Righteousness of the second Adam the Lord Jesus Christ is imputed to all his 2 Cor. 5. ult He hath made him to be Sin for us who know no Sin that we might be made the Righteousness of God in him Here are two things to be considered 1. The Non-Imputation of Sin to us for as our Sins stuck to Christ by Imputation so we are discharged from them by Imputation of Christ's perfect Righteousness and this is a blessed State for those that are Interested in this Righteousness of Christ have 1. No Sin imputed to them tho' there be Sin inherent in them yet there is none imputed to them 2. Another thing is to considered even the Imputation of the perfect and compleat Righteousness of Christ for as there is the non-Imputation of Sin so there 〈◊〉 the Imputation of a perfect Righteousness so then God doth not look on us as guilty of any Sin for that was put on Christ but he looks on us as perfectly Righteous thro' Christ's perfect Obedience so the great thing we are to know is this viz. how we come to have actually the Righteousness of Christ imputed to us and 1. We must consider this is according to the nature of that eternal Covenant between the Father and the Son 2. We should consider Christ as he and his whole Mystical Body are but one Now when as you marry a person his Riches are yours so when you have actual or personal Union with Christ by the Holy Spirit then his Righteousness is actually yours and you are then freed from all your Debts I do not say but we were virtually free before the Lord Jesus did lay down a plenary Satisfaction long ago for all the Elect yet are not we actually free from Sin nor actually or personally Justified till we are actually united to Christ For to say that we are actually Justified and actually possess'd of this thing and the o her thing before we have a Being is as much as if we should set a Seal to a Blank paper Now therefore consider I say that when we have actual Union with Christ by the Holy Spirit then his Righteousness is actually ours and we then are actually freed from all our Debts and this is evidenced to us by Faith which is the Fruit of the Spirit True this was given us in Christ our Head before the World began the Father did strike Hands with the Son in that Eternal Compact and there was an agreement that this should be ours but Christ was nor exhibited in the Flesh till in time tho' he was a Lamb slain from before the foundation of the World in the purpose of God yet in time was he exhibited and in time did actually keep the Law and did suffer Death for the Breach of it then we were virtually Justified and freed from God's wrath and intitled to Glory but we could not nor