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A63051	A vindication of the Protestant doctrine concerning justification, and of its preachers and professors, from the unjust charge of Antinomianism in a letter from a minister in the city, to a minister in the countrey.	Traill, Robert, 1642-1716.	1692 (1692)	Wing T2023; ESTC R938	36,348	46

improved to a severe height by some on purpose to shelter Arminianism in its growth and to advance it further amongst us which we pray and hope the Lord will prevent Yours N. N. POSTSCRIPT THis Paper presented to thee was in its first design intended as a private Letter to a particular Brother as the Title bears How it comes to be published I shall not trouble the World with an account of I think that Dr. Owen's Excellent Book of Justification and Mr. Marshal's Book of the Mystery of Sanctification by Faith in Jesus Christ are such Vindications and Confirmations of the Protestant Doctrine against which I fear no effectual Opposition Dr. Owen's Name is so savoury and famous his soundness in the Faith and ability in Learning for its defence so justly reputed that no sober man will attempt him Mr. Marshal was a holy retired Person and is only known to the most of us by his Book published lately The Book is a deep practical well-jointed Discourse and requires a more than ordinary attention in the reading of it with profit And if it be singly used I look upon it as one of the most useful Books the World hath seen for many years Its excellency is that it leads the serious Reader directly to Jesus Christ and cuts the sinews and overturns the foundation of the New Divinity by the same argument of Gospel-Holiness by which many attempt to overturn the Old And as it hath already the seal of high approbation by many judicious Ministers and Christians that have read it so I fear not but it will stand firm as a Rock against all Opposition and will prove good Seed and Food and Light and Life to many hereafter All my design in publishing this is plainly and briefly to give some Information to ordinary plain people who either want Time or Judgement to peruse large and learned Tractates about this point of Justification wherein every one is equally concerned The Theme of Justification hath suffered greatly by this That many have imployed their Heads and Pens who never had their Hearts and Consciences exercised about it And they must be frigid and dreaming speculations that all such are taken up with whose Consciences are not enlivened with their personal concern in it These things are undoubted 1. That as it is a point of highest concern to every man so it is to the whole-Doctrine of Christianity All the great Fundamentals of Christian Truth center in this of Justification The Trinity of persons in the Godhead The Incarnation of the only Begotten of the Father The Satisfaction paid to the Law and Justice of God for the sins of the World by his Obedience and Sacrifice of Himself in that flesh he assumed and the Divine Authority of the Scriptures which reveal all this Are all straight lines of Truth that center in this Doctrine of the Justification of a Sinner by the Imputation and Application of that Satisfaction No Justification without a Righteousness No Righteousness can be but what answers fully and perfectly the Holy Law of God No such Righteousness can be performed but by a Divine Person No benefit can accrue to a Sinner by it unless it be someway his and applied to him No application can be made of this but by Faith in Jesus Christ And as the connexion with and dependance of this Truth upon the other great Mysteries of Divine Truth is evident in the plain proposal of it So the same hath sadly been manifest in this that the forsaking of the Doctrine of Justification by Faith in Christ's Righteousness hath been the first step of Apostasie in many who have not stop'd till they revolted from Christianity it self Hence so many Arminians and their chief Leaders too turned Socinians from denying Justification by Christs Righteousness they proceeded to the denying of his Satisfaction from the denial of his proper Satisfaction they went on to the denying of the Divinity of his Person And that man's Charity is excessive that will allow to such Blasphemers of the Son of God the Name of Christians Let not then the Zeal of any for so fundamental a point of Truth as that is of the Justification of a Sinner by Faith in Christ be charged with folly It is good to be always zealously affected in a good thing and this is the best of things 2. It is undoubted That there is a Mystery in this Matter of Justification As it is God's act it is an act of Free-Grace and Deep Wisdom Herein Justice and Mercy kiss one another in saving the Sinner Here appears God Man with the Righteousness of God and this applied and imputed to sinful men Here mans Sin and Misery are the field in which the Riches of God's Grace in Christ are display'd Here the Sinner is made Righteous by the Righteousness of another and obtains Justification through this Righteousness though he pays and gives nothing for it God declares him righteous or justifies him freely and yet he is well paid for it by the Redemption that is in Christ Jesus Rom. 3.24 25 26. It is an act of Justice and Mercy both when God justifies a Believer on Jesus Christ And must there not then be a great Mystery in it Is not every Believer daily admiring the depth of this way of God This Mystery is usually rather darkned than illustrated by Logical Terms used in the handling of it The only defence that good and learned men have for the use of them is and it hath great weight that the craft of Adversaries doth constrain them to use such Terms to find them out or hedge them in It 's certain that this Mystery is as plainly revealed in the Word as the Holy Ghost thought fit to do in teaching the Heirs of this Grace and it were well if men did contain themselves within these bounds 3. It is certain That this Doctrine of Justification proposed in the Word hath been very differently understood and expressed by men that profess that God's Word is the only Rule of their thoughts and words about the things of the Spirit of God It hath been and will be still a Stone of Stumbling as our Lord Jesus Christ himself was and is Rom. 9.32 33. 1 Pet. 2.7 8. 4. That whatever Variety and Differences there be in Men's Notions and Opinions and there is a great deal about Justification They are all certainly reducible to two one of which is every mans opinion And they are That the Justification of a sinner before God is either on the account of a Righteousness in and of our selves or on the account of a Righteousness in another even Jesus Christ who is Jehovah our Righteousness Law and Gospel Faith and Works Christs Righteousness and our own Grace and Debt do equally divide all in this matter Crafty Men may endeavour to bend and mix these things together in Justification but it is a vain attempt Is it not only most expresly rejected in the Gospel which peremptorily determines the