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A45680	Christ's righteousness imputed, the Saint's surest plea for eternal life, or, The glorious doctrine of free-justification, by the imputation of the pure and spotless righteousness of Jesus Christ, stated, cleared, vindicated, and made plain to the meanest capacity being the substance of several sermons, on Isaiah XLV. 24, 25 / by Michael Harrison ...	Harrison, Michael, Minister at Potters-Pury.	1690 (1690)	Wing H903; ESTC R10310	20,250	35

Because the Holy Scripture doth abundantly assure us that none ever yet were nor ever yet shall be justified by any Righteousness in them of wrought by them Phil. 3.9 And be found in him not having on my own Righteousness which is of the Law but that which is thro' the Faith of Christ the Righteousness which is of God by Faith and Rom. 10.3 The Jews are said to be ignorant of God's Righteousness and went about to establish their own Righteousness Now that which the Scripture calls our own Righteousness is the Grace of God in us by Sanctification that New Obedience we are helped to perform by the Holy Spirit given us in Regeneration which is elsewhere called the Deeds of the Law Rom. 3.20 by which none ever yet were nor ever will be justified in his Sight 2. None can be justified by their own inherent Righteousness or sincere Obedience to the Gospel because to be thus justified would be to be justified by Works for what else is Sanctification but a new Creation by the sanctifying Vertue of the Holy Spirit unto good Works Sincere Obedience what else is it but good Works or the Works of Righteousness We read therefore of the Work of Faith and Labour of Love Now the Holy Scripture excludes all Works from Justification Rom. 4.5 To him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly c. Every Believer is a Worker he is still labouring to work the VVorks of God to yield sincere Obedience to God's Law But he worke●h not with a Design to be justified by his Works thus Faith without Works justifieth 3. That Righteousness that must justifie us at God's Bar must be a sinless and spotless Righteousness there must be no Blemish in it but it must perfectly answer the Law that accuseth and condemneth us But our own inherent Righteousness of Sanctification is full of Spots and Blemishes and no way answers the Terms of the Law which requires Perfect Obedience and curses every One that does not answer its Demands in every Point Gal. 3.10 For if we keep the whole Law and fail in one point we are guilty of all Now our inherent Holiness being weak spotted and imperfect 1 Kings 8.46 There is no Man that doth good and sinneth not 1 John 1.8 If we say we have no sin we deceive our selves and the Truth is not in us Therefore we cannot be justified by our own sincere Obedience 4. If we are justified by any thing in our selves then have we something to glory in in our selves Rom. 4.2 If Abraham was justified by Works he hath whereof to glory but not before God But all that are justified at God's Bar are justified in such a way as they have nothing to glory in in themselves Rom. 3.27 Where is boasting then it is excluded c. Eph. 2.8 By Grace ye are saved 5. If we are justified by any thing in our selves then we are not justified by Grace Rom. 4.4 Now to him that worketh the Reward is not reckoned of Grace but of Debt but all that are justified are justified by meer Grace Rom. 3.24 Being justified freely by his Grace Objection If God accepts us as Righteous for our own sincere Obedience to the Gospel as if it were Legal and Perfect meerly for the Satisfaction of Christ is not this of meer Free-Grace Answ Tho' it be granted that all that is wrought in us in our Regeneration or done by us in a Course of Holy Obedience is all of meer Grace whatever we are It is by the Grace of God we are what we are 1 Cor. 15.10 And tho' some think Jesus Christ purchased for us a Remedial Law whereby our Faith and sincere Obedience to the Gospel shall be accepted thro' Christ's Merits as if it were Legal and Perfect and we thereby justified and accepted at God's Bar yet it must also be observed and granted that when ever in Scripture we are said to be saved by Grace justified by Grace in those Places Grace is opposed to all manner of Works as well Evangelical as Legal he that has any thing in himself to plead and to bring him off at God's Bar may challenge Justification as due to it so that to be justified by Free-Grace or by Faith which is all one is to be accounted righteous at God's Bar not for any Works Righteousness or Obedience of our own but only by and for the Active and Passive Obedience of Jesus Christ received by Faith Who of God is made unto us Righteousness 1 Cor. 1.30 6. If Abraham who was the Pattern of Justification was not justified by Works or by any Acts of Evangelical Obedience then none else But Abraham was not justified by Works Rom. 4.4 therefore none ever was or can be so justified Objection The Apostle James saith Jam. 2.21 Abraham was justified by Works and ver 24. he saith Ye see then how that a Man is justified by Works and not by Faith only Now how shall we reconcile these two Apostles Paul and James whereas one saith We are justified by Faith only without Works and the other saith We are not justified by Faith only but by Works also Answ These two Apostles may be reconciled by rightly distinguishing and understanding these two Terms Justification and Faith 1. If we rightly understand this Term Justification There is a twofold Justification The One at God's Bar the Other before Men or in our own Consciences 1. There is a Justification at God's Bar and that is an Acquitting or Absolving the Sinner at God's Bar from the Guilt of all Sin and the Accepting the Person so acquitted as righteous for the Righteousness of another imputed This is not for any Works done by the Persons themselves but of Free-Grace as the Apostle proves Rom. 4.4 5 And when St. Paul speaks of Justification in Rom. 3 4 5 Chapters and in the Epistle to the Galatians and elsewhere he speaks of it in this Sence We are in this sence justified only by Faith apprehending the Righteousness of another Works bear no part in our Justification at God's Bar. But 2. Sometimes Justification is taken for a Declaration of a Man's Righteousness before Men or an Evidence of one's Justification in his own Conscience and this is by Works For how shall I appear to others to be a righteous justified Person but by my Good Works our Lord has directed to judge of the Tree by the Fruit by their Works you shall know them or how shall a Christian know that he is justified at God's Bar but by an Internal Evidence in his own Soul that he truly loves God believes in Christ and sincerely obeys the Gospel 2 Cor. 1.12 This is our rejoycing the Testimony of our Consciences bearing us Witness that in Simplicity and Godly Sincerity not by Fleshly Wisdom but by the Grace of God we have had our Conversations in the World Now St. James Jam. 2. speaks not of Justification before God for Abraham was justified at God's Bar

Justification and there are two Considerations that will much clear the Manner of this Imputation 1. As Adam's Sin is imputed to his Posterity whereby they are all become Sinners Rom. 5.12 In him all have sinned even so is Christ's Righteousness to all his whereby they become righteous Rom. 5.19 As by one Man's Disobedience many i. e. all Mankind were made Sinners so by the Obedience of one many i. e. all the Spiritual Seed of Christ for the Apostle is there speaking of the two Seeds were made righteous 2. As the Sins of the Elect were laid upon or imputed to Christ as Isa 53.4 5 Rom. 4. last He was made Sin for us So the Obedience or Righteousness of Christ is imputed to us 2 Cor. 5. last We are made the Righteousness of God in him IV. Let us now Consider the Time when we are made Partakers of this blessed Priviledge Justification And here Consider 1. From Eternity God hath decreed to justifie all the Elect for it must be granted that all those blessed Priviledges the Saints enjoy in Time is setled upon them in God's Eternal Purpose Eph. 1.4 He hath chosen us in him before the Foundation of the World that we should be holy and without blame before him in Love V. 5. Having predestinated us to the Adoption of Children by Jesus Christ to himself according to the Good Pleasure of his Will so that Adoption Justification Sanctification and all other Spiritual Heavenly Blessings are setled upon us in God's Eternal Election before Time but yet it can in no propriety of Speech be said We are justified from Eternity there being not one Syllable in the whole Bible that saith so We must distinguish between a Purpose in God to do such a Thing in Time and the Thing actually done we are no more justified from Eternity then we are sanctified and glorified from Eternity God having from Eternity equally purposed to give these Benefits to all the Elect. 2. The Lord Jesus Christ hath at his Death purchased the Pardon of Sin Justification and Eternal Life for all Believers God laid on him the Iniquities of us all Isa 53.4 5 6. Rom. 5.12 ad finem yet these purchased Priviledges are reserved for us not applied to us until we actually come to and believe in Christ John 3.36 He that believeth on the Son hath Everlasting Life and he that believeth not the Son shall not see Life 2. We are actually justified by Faith Rom. 5.1 Being justified by Faith we have Peace with God Rom. 3.28 A Man is justified by Faith without the Deeds of the Law Now if we are justified by Faith we are not justified before Faith nor without it the Being of Faith in the Soul being absolutely necessary to Justification 4. In Death we have a further Manifestation of our Justification when the Soul of a Believer appears at God's Bar 't is then acquitted and finds it self more immediately in the Arms of Mercy Rev. 14.13 Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord they rest from their Labours and their Work do follow them 5. The Last and Great Day of Justification will be the Day of Judgment the Saints shall then by Jesus Christ himself be declared Just and Righteous before Angels and Men Mat. 25.34 Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you V. How we are justified by Faith The very Papists and the Rankest Arminian will not deny but own we are justified by Faith let them but Explain the Term Faith as they please Therefore it will be very necessary to shew how Faith justifies 1. Negatively We are not justified by Faith in a proper but in a figurative Sense not by Faith as it is a Work in us In this manner Papists Socinians and Arminians plead for Justification by Faith nay some would have Faith bear away the Bell and have the Honour of justifying us it is singled out by God from all other Graces and God of meer Mercy looks on Faith say some Faith and sincere Obedience to the Gospel say Others as if it were a Perfect and Legal Righteousness tho' they own this Acceptance to be of Grace But all this is nothing but Popery refined the Doctrine of Justification by Works dressed in neater Terms the Devices of Satan to darken and obscure the old Protestant Doctrine of Justification 2. Positively Faith justifies with respect to its Object Now the Object of Faith is 1. General The whole Word of God Historical Mandatory Promissory Monitory it looks at all the Parts of the Divine Law Thus Faith purifies the Heart produces Holy Obedience but in this sence Faith justifies not 2. Faith has a special and peculiar Object and that is the Promise or Covenant of Grace or rather Christ in the Promise thus Faith justifies as it looks to and eyes the Promises Faith is the Right Hand whereby we look unto Christ and receive Christ offered to us Now this Saving Faith has a twofold Act An Act ad Extra and an Act ad Intra Ad Extra it looks and puts forth Acts of true Evangelical Obedience Holiness of Heart and Life so it justifies not But Ad intra it looks to Christ and rests upon him alone in this Sence Faith justifies So that upon the whole we may say 1. That the Internal Moving Cause of our Justification is meer Grace Rom. 3.24 Being freely justified by his Grace 2. The External Moving Cause is Jesus Christ God-man who as Mediator hath purchased this Gift for us 3. The Material Cause is the Active and Passive Obedience of Christ whereby he both obeyed the Law and made Satisfaction for Sin 4. The Formal Cause is the Imputation of our Sins to Christ and his Righteousness to us 5. The External Instrumental Cause of Justification is the Gospel in which Christ and Justification by the Imputation of his Righteousness is revealed and offered to us 2 Cor. 5.22 6. The Internal Instrumental Cause is Faith which justifieth instrumentally as it apprehends Christ Thus we are said to be justified by Grace by Faith by Christ i. e. thro' God's Grace by Christ's Merits apprehended by Faith 7. The Declarative Cause of Justification is Good Works whereby our Faith is declared to be not a dead but a true and living Faith 8. The Final Cause of our Justification is the Glory of God and our own Salvation VI. Objections answered Object 1. If Christs Righteousness imputed be the only Cause of our Justification what need then of Repentance Holiness or New Obedience Answ 1. Repentance and true Holiness is by God himself made indispensably necessary to Salvation Acts 17.30 God commands all Men every where to repent And Heb. 12.14 Without Holiness no Man shall see God 2. I do not say Repentance Holiness and New Obedience are no Cause at all but they are neither the External nor Internal Moving Cause they are neither the Efficient Formal Instrumental Material or Meritorious Cause yet they are the Evidential or

Psal 110.3 makes the Soul willing to part with all Sin and to have Christ upon his own Terms 2. By its Activity for God and Holiness True Faith is obedient the Language of Faith is Lord What wilt thou have me to do Acts 9.6 3. Saying Faith is never alone but always accompanied with all other Graces as Love to God Gal. 5.6 Faith which works by Love Self-denial Gal. 2.20 I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me c. 4. Saving Faith is a prayerful Grace so soon as Paul believes he prayeth see in Jacob how Faith spirits him in Prayer Gen. 32.9 10. FINIS A Catalogue of BOOKS newly Printed for William and Joseph Marshal and Sold by them at the Bible in Newgate-street In FOLIO 1. CAryl's Exposition on the whole Book of Job in Quires 30 s. bound 40 s. 2. Mr. Pool's Synopsis Criticorum in two Volumes with the New Testament Latin with the Index in quires 20 s. bound 30 s. 3. Mr. Keach's Exposition of all the Parables contained in the Four Evangelists 4. 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