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A41483	The banner of justification displayed: or; a discourse, concerning the deep, and important mystery of the justification of a sinner wherein the severall causes thereof, being both numerous and various, are from the first to the last diligently enquired after, and their severall contributions towards so great and happy a work, clearly distinguished, and assigned to their proper causes (respectively.) and more particularly is shewed, how God, how the grace of God, how the decree of God, how the soveraign authority of God; how Christ, how the active obedience [of] Christ, how the passive obedience of Christ, how the resurrection of Christ, how the knowledge of Christ; how the spirit of God, how faith, how repentance, how works, how remission of s[in,] how the word, how the minister of the word, how the P[ope?] himself which is justified, may all truly, though upon severall accounts, and after different manners, be sayed to justifie.	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1659 (1659)	Wing G1150A; ESTC R221574	62,441	91

importunely urging it to stave off the ●h●e●●nings of the Prophets of God against them 〈…〉 ●s God himself by his Prophet Jeremy expresseth thei d●votion in this kind Jer 7. 4. The Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord are th●se So is the cove●t of Orthodoxisme in sacred request with the men we speak of when they have invested themselves with it they are as in a Castle of War there is no coming ●t them no touching them with any Charge or Imputation of Error Heresie Blasphemy or the like ever and anon in their Writings in their Preachings in their Discoursings they are in effect saying The Orthodox the Orthodox the Orthodox are these pointing at or meaning themselves those that are of their Judgment When they have once given such an account of their Faith as to be admitted to commence orthodox they are as secure from infection in their Judgments with any of those noysome and poysonous Creatures Errors Mistakes Heresies as a Room built or seiled with Irish Oake is from the danger of any Spiders Webb But doubtless there can no sufficient reason or ground in equity be given why Pendente lite the matter being under so sober and serious a dispute between them and their Brethren of opposite Judgment as it is which of them are the Oxthodox they should antedate the Issue and success of the Contest run away with the Crown upon their own heads before they have won it yea if standers by and unpartial men may have leave to judge before they are like to win it So then let the word Orthodox in Mr. Hickmans Passage lately mentioned be taken Orthodoxly and signifie those who are as I verily believe Orthodox indeed in the Controversie he speaks of and then without controversie what he saith is most true That a spirit of most Childish insultation seems to have possessed as many as have lift up an English Pen against the Orthodox in the Quinquarticular Controversie Of the truth of the words in his sense of Orthodox he gave but one instance only and this strained and stretch'd beyond its Staple as hath been proved But of the truth of them in my sense of the said word Orthodox I have prevented him somewhile since with two instances pregnant and uncontrolable of two men both of them great Doctors and men of Renown famous in the Congregation of the Contra-remonstrants Doctor Kendall and Doctor John Owen whom in my Preface to my Triumviri and in the Discourse it self I have produced as Witnesses beyond exception against themselves as to the Point of the Delinquency whereof Mr. Hickman speaks I mean most Childish insultation and in this Preface have given him measure heaped up with a third instance in the same kind of a person highly I question not esteemed by him though not so well known unto him I mean himself As for his Spartan Valour if his Breast be enobled with it 〈◊〉 if so much as a spark of it warms his blood I doubt not but he will have an Opportunity to shew it by that time Mr. Pierce hath done with him Good Reader I have detained thee over-long with an Apologeticall story of no great consequence in respect of my self nor haply unto thee Only my hope is that the person concerned in it with my self may through the blessing of God upon his perusall and second thoughts of it advance somewhat towards the better understanding of himself I call God for a Record upon my Soule that I beare him not the least Graine of any Grudge or ill-will I love my self better then not to love him And that I do not neglect or despise him I think the pains I have now bestowed to set my self streight in his thoughts will sufficiently witness for me Nay upon the account of what I have heard concerning the Genius and St●ein of his Book I judge him a man commendably pregnant and that if he shall take heed of wronging his strength by over-pragmatickness and confidence in undertakings or his Conscience by unadvised clashing with the Truth he may make happy Earnings of serving his Generation Thus far Mr. Hickman Concerning the sequell of the Papers now in thy hand the Argument or subject Matter of it is an Essay or Endeavour to make 1. A discovery of all the Causes from the first to the last as far as they are either held forth or insinuated in the Scriptures of that mysterious and weighty Business Justification 2. To assign unto every of these Causes respectively their appropriate Interests Interposures and Contributions in and about and towards this great and happy state of a Sinner As there is no ground in Christian Religion that hath I conceive more Springs in it of Questions and sublime Contemplations then this of Justification so neither is there any about which the Holy Ghost to my observation hath employed so many Pens especially in that variety of Discourse and enquiry Intending only an Epitome or Summary Comprisall of the more materiall Points or Difficulties relating unto the Subject we speak of we had no opportunity to insist upon any particular at large That which was chiefly projected and desired by this little Piece was to make diligent and narrow search after the different co-operations of those numerous Causes which God hath judgded meet to imploy ordinarily according to their respective Natures and Capacities of acting in and about the investing of a Sinner with that great Blessedness of Justification which he hath contrived and provided for him That knowledge in Matters of Religion which is so commonly presum'd to be in Professors of this Age above the former is rather a Bulk then a Body of Knowledge and though it commonly passeth under the name of Knowledge yet in propriety of speaking it is not so but rather a confident perswasion or belief that things are so or so as they apprehend them to be Which belief though it answers the reality and being of that which is believed so as it were by accident be true yet it is not knowledge nor doth it argue Knowledge unless the Believer understands the Reason of what he thus believeth or at least a substantiall Ground why he thus believeth it Yea in all matters of doubtfull Disputation from the Scriptures for men to pretend or alledge the Scriptures as a Reason or Ground of what they believe signifieth little unless they should give a good and substantiall Reason to prove that to be the true Sense and meaning of the Scriptures which must Countenance and confirm their Opinion for truth against their Adversary Yea when two shall contend for their respective Opinions being opposite the one unto the other from o● by the Authority of the Scriptures if neither of them be able to give any competent account why they interpret or understand the Scriptures so or so in comportance with their Opinion was sometimes it happeneth they do but beat the Aire with contesting and both their

Meaning that they could have no reasonable ground to believe that they were discharged or acquitted by God from the Debt or guilt of their sins by means of the death of Christ if he should be detained in the Prison of Death the Grave until now and not have been raised again and set at liberty So then the rising again or rather the raising again of Christ from the dead by God the Father justifieth believing sinners as it were argumentatively and as exhibiting a rationall ground unto them whereon to build their Faith of a full and perfect Attonement made by Christ in his death for them or for their sins by which Faith according unto and by vertue of that Promise made or the Law enacted by God in that behalf they come to be justified Sect. 9 9. The Prophet Isaiah bringeth in God the Father speaking thus of his Son Christ By his knowledge shall my righteous Servant justifie many for he shall bear their Iniquities Isa. 53. 11. That the Particle or Pronoun His is here to be taken objectively not subjectively a construction frequent in Scripture is I presume the award of every mans Understanding So that by his knowledge the knowledge of Christ is meant the knowledge of himself which he shall propagate in the World by the Ministry of the Gospel and by means of this knowledge of him many shall be justified according to that of the Apostle We who are Jews by nature and not sinners of the Gentiles knowing that a man is not justified by the Works of the Law but by the Faith of Jesus Christ even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified by the Faith of Christ i. By Christ believed on as he explains himself in the verse next following But if whilst we seek to be justified by Christ c. Whence by the way it may be observed that to be justified by Christ and by Faith or believing in Christ is of one and the same import So then the knowledge of Christ is or may be sayd to justifie men in somewhat a remote sense viz. As it is a ground of encouragement unto them to believe on him by which believing they are immediatly justified 10. Men are sayd in Scripture as well to be Justified as Sect. 10 Sanctified by the Spirit of God and this as Justification is distinguished from Sanctification But yee are washed but yee are sanctified but yee are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God 1 Cor. 6. 11. Some Exposito●s indeed understand the word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} yee were justified not of Justification properly so called or which standeth in remission of sins but of such a justification which consisteth in a progress or proficiency in Righteousness or in the profession and practice of Christianity For the justification of which Exposition they plead the exigency of the order or gradation in the Text it self as also the like use or signification of the word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in that of Apocal. 22. 11. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Let him that is righteous or just be justified still i. As the Expositers we speak of interpret Let him encrease and make forward in wayes of righteousness It must be acknowledged that to grow in grace and proceed in holiness and righteousness from day to day may be called a mans justification in a declarative or arguitive sense viz. As they argue or declare a man to be a justified pe●son and his Faith to be of the right kind a living and growing Faith yea they may be termed a mans justification as they are just matter of his app●obation and commendation which in many cases are used in a sense parallel to that of the word Justification as 't is used sometimes But the Justification which is the S●bject of our present Discourse doth not consist in any Action one or more nor in any Quality one or more but rather in a state or condition viz. Such whereinto a person is translated or brought by the pardon of his sins or sentence of absolution awarded by God Nor need we take the word Justification in the Scripture lately cited 1 Cor. 6. 11. in any other sense but this For Justification in this sense may be asc●ibed to the Holy Ghost as he hath a speciall and appropriate hand in raising the work of Faith by which men are thus justified in the hearts of those who do believe in which respect Faith is registred by the Apostle Paul amongst the fruits of the Spirit Gal. 5. 22. and by his Fellow Apostle Peter they who believe are sayd to obey the truth speaking of the obediency of Faith to the Gospel through the Spirit 1 Pet. 1. 22. and Act. 18. 27. The Christians in Ach●ia are sayd to have believed through grace i Through the grace of God in his vouchsafement of his Spirit unto them by whom they were enabled to believe yea and actually believed Now then according to the known Maxime or Principle in reason Quod est causa causae est causa causati That which is the Cause of any Cause producing an Effect is the cause of the Effect it self as well as of the Cause producing it Faith being the cause or means of Justification and the Spirit the cause of Faith Justification may as truly and not much less properly be attributed unto the Spirit as unto Faith Sect. 11 11. That Faith justifieth is the constant assertion of the Scripture and the Architectonicall Doctrine of the Gospel Therefore being justified by Faith we have peace with God Rom. 5. 1. Again Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by Faith without the Works of the Law Rom. 3. 28. Yet once more to spare Citations in a case so generally known We who are Jews by nature and not sinners of the Gentiles Knowing that a man is not justified by the Works of the Law but by the Faith of Jesus Christ even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified by the Faith of Christ and not by the Works of the Law c. Gal. 2. 15 16. By the way upon occasion of these with many the like passages in the New Testament wherein Justification by Faith is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} expresly affirmed I cannot but mention my dislike of their strein in teaching who lay down and deliver it to the people for a Doctrine positively and plainly that men are not justified by Faith or by believing Doubtless it is not convenient or comely positively to deliver or assert that for a Doctrine of Truth which is so diametrally opposite to the frequent cleer and express words of the Scripture If there be a limited sence to be put upon such passages wherein a Truth is commonly and from place to place held forth in the Scriptures this may conveniently and timously enough be done in the Explication or Opening

which my Accuser intended to humble me but rather the subject matter or inward thought imported in the words as that I should arrogate unto my self an attainment so incredible and rare as not to be put to a stond or be at a loss in my understanding what to answer to any thing I had met with in any the Writings of the three men if this I say be the Sword that passed through the Soul of my Accuser and be apprehended by him so highly Criminall as to deserve that heaped measure of Indignation which he hath troubled his Learning to pour upon it I shall for the composure of his Spirit and for the dissolving of the unhappy appearance of so much guilt where none was administer unto him that well-approved Dosis of Augustine Non est arrogantia sed ●ides praedicare ●a quae accepisti Upon occasion to professor declare what a man hath received of undeserved favour and bounty from God is no point of arrogance o● pride but of Faith And the truth is that God hath so blessed me in the labour and travail of my Soul about those great Points of Election Reprobation the Intent or Extent of the death of Christ c. wherein I have with some diligence and with no less integrity and simplicity of heart exercised my self for severall years past that before the coming forth of any thing Printed by the three men against me I was Master of such Principles and Grounds partly from the light of Nature and common Impressions found in the Hearts and Consciences of all men concerning God partly from the Writings of learned and worthy men as well of the Contra-remonstrant party as Calvin Beza Musculus c. as the Remonstrant but chiefly from the Sriptures by which I was able to give my self present satisfaction about any thing I met with objected in my way by any of those three men And I partly believe that Mr. Hickman himself though but a young man comparatively yet conceiveth of himself at not much a lower rate then to be able without much study to maintain the peace of his present Judgment against all the Attempts that either I in any of my Writings or any other of my Judgment in theirs have made upon him to disturb him However if he should make a Declaration or profession of such a Tenor or Import I judging him to be a man of Conscience and sober minded should not reflect upon him nor do I judge it my duty so to do as a man speaking that which was not nor yet conclude him to be a man of a lofty and confident arrogating or self-willed Spirit much less should I arraign him openly as a person guilty of such misdemeanours I confess it is very incident to men to abound in their own sense to such a degree as to presume that they want nothing wherwith to answer any man that shall oppose it Indeed if he should declare or profess after this manner or the like Viz That he is resolved whatsoever hath been written or whatsoever shall be written by any man or men whatsoever yea or whatsoever can be written in opposition to his present Judgment in those Points that yet he will stand by this Judgment unto death this I confess would put me into thoughts of another nature concerning him But I have not put him to the trouble of any such consideration as this about me my Profession with which notwithstanding he vexeth his impatient Soul being of a far different Spirit But 4. and lastly As to those words And indeed a spirit of most Childish insultation seems to have possessed as many as have lift up an English Pen against the Orthodox in this quinquarticul●r Controversie I am reall in believing the truth of the●e words but not in the meaning of him that wrote them But admit his sense and meaning in them for truth never was the Spirit of Childish insultation more Childishly reproved or with less authority and power in respect of the Tenor and notion of the reproof For the credit of that old saying of grave Cato is Authentick to this day Turpe est Doctori cum culpa redarguit ipsum A burning shame it is when Teachers will Reprove and yet themselves commit the ill Or is there any species of Childish insultation more impertinent and weak then Ante pugnam canere victoriam to sing Victory before the Battell be begun or whilst it is yet with great heat of Courage and Confidence prosecuted and maintained by the opposite side Or is there any Soloecisme in Logick broader or more illogicall then that which they call Petitio Principii when that is presumed or taken for granted which is the main question in Dispute Or when Mr. Hickman takes the honour unto himself and his Party in the Quinquarticular Controversie of being the Orthodox and more signally and peculiarly such in the said Controversie doth he not cry Victory before the Battell or whilst his Adversaries in good order with their Troops unbroken yea undaunted without the loss of so much as an Inch of their ground keep the Field Or is it not by a neer-hand interpretation the very Spirit and quick of the Controversie between him and them which of the two be the Orthodox yet Mr. Hickman gives us this Pill to swallow without chewing that he and his have the right end of the Staff are the Orthodox in the Points and Questions depending He doth not walk by the King of Israels advice unto Benhadad 1 King 20. 11. For he hath but newly girded his ●●arness to him and yet boasteth as if he were putting i● off But I would gladly here know of him how by what Title or right of Claim he and his come to be the Orthodox I am affraid they came not to the Honour as orderly or honestly as Aaron did to the Priesthood but that they took it unto themselves being never called to it by God or the Truth Our Saviour even in his own Ca●e acknowledgeth equity in that Maxime of Law That a mans Testimony of or for himself is invalid If I saith he bear witness of my self my testimony is not true i. Not true or valid in course of Law John 5. 31. I never heard nor can I beleive unless Mr. Hickman or some of his Friends could lend me their Faith that they hold the Title of Orthodox by any other right of Claim then that by which the Jews held that honour which they received one of another John 5 44. No● do I know any reason why they should bear away the Bell of Orthodoxisme from their Brethren their friendly Adversaries unless it be because they are the far better Ringers ever and anon upon occasion and without occasion Pealing and sounding it in our Ears that they are the Orthodox And as the Jews of old made great treasure of the●Templum Domini and thought themselves safe enough under the p●otection of it ever and anon having it in their mouths

Banner of Justification DISPLAYED OR A DISCOURSE Concerning the Deep and Important Mystery of the Justification of a Sinner Wherein the severall Causes thereof being both numerous and various are from the First to the Last diligently enquired after and their severall Contributions towards so great and happy a Work clearly distinguished and assigned to their proper Causes respectively AND More particularly is shewed How God how the Grace of God how the Decree of God how the Soveraign Authority of God How Christ how the Active Obedience Christ how the Passive Obedience of Christ how the Resurrection of Christ how the Knowledge of Christ How the Spirit of God how Faith how Repentance how Works how Remission of Si●… how the Word how the Minister of the Word how the P●●●… himself which is justified may all truly though upon severall Accounts and after different Manners be sayd to Justifie By his knowledge shall my righteous Servant iustifie many Isa. 53. 11. Solet Scriptura cum ad unum effectum multae causae concurrunt modo uni modo alteri effectum tribuere Chamier Panstrat Tom. 4. L. 22. C. 4. §. 39. Scire est per causas scire Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas LONDON Printed by E. C. And are to be sold by H. Evers●●… at the Sign 〈◊〉 the 〈…〉 Brief Passages of Scripture clearly shewing and proving that all the Particulars mentioned in the Title Page as Causes of Justification or Contributors hereunto are acknowledged and supposed for such in the Scriptures themselves IT is God that justifieth Rom. 8. 33. Being justified freely by his Grace Rom. 3. 24. This is the Will i. The Decree or fixed pleasure of him that sent me that every one which seeth the Son and believeth on him should have everlasting life and consequently be antecedently justified It is God that justifieth who is he that condemneth meaning that his Authority in justifying is Soveraign and Paramount and so lyable to no reverse or contradiction Rom. 8. 33 34. But if while we seek to be justified by Christ c. Gal. 2. 17. For as much as yee know that yee were not redeemed and consequently not justified with corruptible things but with the precious blood of Christ as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot 1 Pet. 1. 19. Much more being now justified by his bleod Rom. 5. 9. and was i. Christ was raised again for our Justification Rom. 4. 25. By his knowledge shall my righteous Servant justifie many Isa 53. 11. But yee are washed but yee are sanctified but yee are justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God 1 Cor. 6. 11. Therefore being justified by Faith we have peace with God c. Rom 5. 1. John did Baptize in the Wilderness and preached the Baptisme of Repentance for remission of sins Mar. 1. 4. Yee see then how that by works a man is justified c. Jam. 2. 24 Blessed are they whose Iniquities are forgiven and ●●ose sins are covered i. Who is justified as appears from v. 2. and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 4. 7. And how shall they believe in him and consequently be justified of whom they have not heard So then Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God Rom. 10. 17. And how shall they hear without a Preacher Rom. 10. 14. Take heed unto thy self and unto thy Doctrine for in doing this thou shalt both save thy self and them that hear thee and consequently shalt justifie both in as much as salvation presupposeth justification 1 Tim. 4. 16. Even we have believed in Christ that we might be justified by the Faith of Christ Gal. 2. 16. having charged the English Tilenus with making the Tryers to ask such questions of those that come before them as in all probability never came into all their thoughts to ask upon this his probable mis-de meanour himself making no more of it he advanceth this Radamanthine and severe Sentence both against him and me Which sayth he Is such a piece of Impudence as no one hath ventured to imitate him in but that Ishmael of Colemanstreet whose hand being against all men hath provoked all men even to the common Pamphleter to lift up an hand against him The best is in case Mr. Hickman's reproach here could without the help of the Figure {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} be admitted for true That Jeremy of Jerusalem was a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole Earth as well as that Ishmael of Colemanstreet and yet was a true Prophet and never the less like so to have been for the numerousness of his Contests Noah also was a Preacher of Righteousness yet his proportion of Opposers in the World far exceeded mine and the number of those who embrace my Doctrine with their whole hearts far exceedeth the number of those who upon such terms received his Yea our Saviour himself testifieth that in the Church and Nation of the Jews they who had the more generall approbation and applause were the false Prophets not the true Luk. 6. 26. Wo unto them when all men shall speak well of them for so did their Fathers to the false Prophets But because Mr. Hickman judgeth himself Orthodox in charging me with Impudence what if it be found that the Ingredients in the composition of his Charge here levied against me and proclaimed as with sound of Trumpet and Drum in the Ears of the World be notwithstanding all Errors and broad untruths may he not make a covering of shame for his own Face of the Accusation which he hath here drawn up against me Let us fairly examine the Case and with as much Favour to the Examinate as he or his Friends can reasonably expect First Whereas he chargeth me with imitating his English Tilenus is not here a palpable and un-scholar-like Jeofail Did Shemei in reviling David when his Condition was low and mean in the World imitate Mr. Hickman in reproaching a Minister of Christ being under Hatches and trampled upon by men or did not Mr. Hickman in this Action rather imitate him He that acteth before another what ever his Action be doth not imitate him that followeth him in the same kind of acting but on the contrary he imitates who follows the Example or Pattern that have been set before If there be any similitude between Tilenus and me in our respective handling of Mr. Hickmans Tryers Tilenus must bear the Crime of Imitation not I who was before him in what was done by me relating to those his Clients Secondly Whereas he chargeth me with venturing to imitate Tilenus in making the Tryers to ask such Questions of those that come before them as in all probability never came into all their thoughts to ask The truth is that he chargeth me with the Crime of such a Courage or boldness whereof I was never Conscious I never made any venture to imitate Tilenus in such an Attempt as is here charged upon him