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sin_n	death_n	life_n	wage_n	10,497	5	10.9120	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95872	A very short and brief account of the free justification of God's elect, from the condemning power of the law, by that law change of persons, (flowing from an eternal act of grace, by way of covenant transaction between the Father and the Son;) which brought Christ as mediator under the curse and condemnation of that broken law, in the very room and place of elect sinners. : Whereunto are added, some questions concerning this point; : proposed to be answered by those that do so confidently affirm, that the elect of God are equally with others, under the same condemning power of the law, before faith. / By A member of a Church of Christ, in the County of Essex.	Member of a Church of Christ.	1699 (1699)	Wing V279dA; ESTC R185966	13,548	48

set Christ as Mediator under the Curse and Condemning power of the Law which other ways could hot have touched him and turns the Curse of the Law from the Law-breaking Sinner which otherways would take hold on all Sinners as such and so sets him under the sentence of Life in the Court of Grace by absolute promise Titus 1.2 which free and absolute sentence of Life takes hold on the Persons of God's chosen as early as the law sentence can take hold on the persons of those that have no Mediator Rom. 9. 11 13. This is the immediate effects of Christ's Mediatorship for the Elect and the pronounced or declared sentence of God's eternal Will thus with Respect to this eternal Transaction in a Covenant way we may understand these following Scriptures Prov. 8.23 Micah 5.2 Zac. 6.13 Eph. 3.11 2 Tim. 1.9 1 Pet. 1.20 Now whither you will please to call this Imminent and Internal Act of God's Will Justification or not yet let the thing it self be granted and so far we shall agree I desire not to differ about Words if we mean the same thing I suppose you take only the pronounced sentence into Justification that I own as it declares the fundamental Act according to which they stand Just if we differ not about the sentence it self for I reckon that all sentences of Court that are according to Justice are grounded upon some preceding Act which makes the sentence Just Therefore I shall take in both because the Righteous Judge of the whole Earth will never pronounce any Law-breaking Sinner Just but those which he makes Righteous in a Mediator according to this Sovereign Act of his Grace but I take it for granted that our difference I mean amongst those that are sound and Orthodox is not about the matter of our Justifying Righteous nor whither it is God only that Justifies through Christ nor whether it be by Grace excluding all manner of Works of the Law wrought in us or performed by us even the Act of believing it self as it is a Work of the Law though I could wish that were something better cleared as well as owned in words Therefore I shall pass these things and come to the very point and that is what Act of God it is that makes over the Righteousness of Christ as Mediator to an elect Person or gives him a Right to that Righteousness in the sight of God This I take to be fundamentally in the Sovereign Will of God in that Covenant Transaction between the Father and the Son there was a Grant unto our great Covenant-Head the Lord Jesus though he were purely God and had not then assumed our Nature yet he did personally exist and was a distinct Person from the Father from Eternity though of the same Nature and Essence And by Virtue of Eternal Covenant Transaction he was under an Obligation from all Eternity to take our Nature upon him as Abraham's Seed with a Special Eye to the Elect for he pass'd by the Nature of Angels and though it is true that he took Flesh Humane Nature yet he pass'd by the non-elect and on the Seed of Abraham he took hold that is of all Abraham's Spiritual Seed as he saith I and the Children thou hast given me The Apostle in that Second Chapter to the Hebrews Quotes that out of Isaiah and brings it to prove the Covenant Relation that was between Christ and the Elect and forasmuch as the Children were partakers of Flesh and Blood he likewise himself took part of the same by this Covenant Relation we became Bone of his Bone and Flesh of his Flesh as there is one Body as well as one Spirit by virtue of this Covenant Relation the elect only receive Life and quickenings from Christ as Head of the Covenant of Grace as the Father gave him to be Head to the Catholick or Universal Church the whole Body of election Eph. 1.22 23. and then it follows and you hath he quickened chap. 2. v. 1. Thus I have spoke in a few words something of that Union from whence flows Communion which doth not only precede Faith in order of Nature but in order of time also and by virtue of which we have the Spirit that works Faith in God's time from Christ as our anointed Head but to return by virtue of this Covenant Transaction he was likewise under an Obligation to bare all the Sins by way of charge and Imputation of all the elect in his own Body on the Tree as their Covenant Head and Mediator so he stood Ingaged by Covenant Contract from Eternity to answer for them to all the demands of Law and Justice John 10.18 This Command have I received of my Father and John 12.50 I know that his Command is Life everlasting The same Act of God's Grace that made our Sins to meet on Christ to Death as the wages of Sin brought his Mediatorial Righteousness upon the Elect to Life everlasting Rom. 5.21 chap. 6 23. By virtue of this Covenant Transaction it is made over to God's chosen by a free Testament of Grace in the Blood of the New Testament and comes upon them as a free gift of Righteousness Rom. 5.18 and we have Right to that Justifying Righteousness as held forth in the free and absolute promise as elect Persons being chosen in Christ as the elect head of this his free Testament and the Testament it self gives Right and the elect are heirs of promise as soon as they have a being not Natural Heirs by descent but Heirs by Grace for what is freer than Gift God made his Will in Eternity and bequeathed Eternal Life to his adopted Children that were predestinated to Son-ship acccording to the good pleasure of his Will Eph. 1.5 now this Testament of Grace in the Blood of Christ made known and Revealed by an absolute promise of Life Titus 1.2 taken from Gen. 3.15 this gives them right and makes them Heirs of the promise of Life and though the Blessings given in this Testament be in the Sureties Hand till the time apointed of the Father to be giving out successively at the several times appointed first the Spirit of Faith and then Sanctification gradually carried on and at last consummated in Glory therefore to make one Blessing thereof to be either Cause or Condition of the Rest would be very improper when all are but parts of the same free gift and that which gave them Right to one gave them Right to all that which gave them a Right to Faith before they did receive it gave them Right to Justifying Righteousness before they had Faith and that was thefree Testament it self in the Blood of Christ then here lieth the Right of elect Persons as such to Justifying Righteousness in the Will it self as being by that absolutely settled upon all the Heirs of promise by two Immutable things God's Promise and Oath and add to this the Testator's Blood and shews all is firm the elect have an Indefeasable Right and