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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26316	Actual justification rightly stated containing a true narrative of a sad schism made in a church of Christ, at Kilby in Leicester-shire, proving, none of the elect are actually justified before faith.		1696 (1696)	Wing A459; ESTC R3827	24,143	28

this to an actual and personal right Can men be actually Justified before they have a persoual and actual Being 'T is enough that our right is secured for us in Chrisr and shall in time be actually conveyed and Applied to us To Conclude I think it not amiss here to give you the Sense of all the Pastors Ministers and Messengers of our Perswasion on this Point as it was asserted in their General Assembly held in London Sept. 3. 1689. representing about one Hundred and six Churches where this Question was 〈…〉 ed viz. Whether Bellevers were not actually Reconciled to God actu 〈…〉 Justified and Adopted when Christ Died c. The Answer was That the Reconciliation Justification and Adoption of Believers are 〈…〉 fallibly secured by the gracioue Purpose of God and Merits of Jesus Christ yet none can be said to be actually Reconciled Justified and Adopted until they are really implanted into Jesus Christ bp Faith and so by Vertue of this their Union with him have those Fundamental Benefits actually conveyed unto them And this we conceive is fully evindenced because the Scripture attributes all those Benefits to Faith as the Instrumental Cause of them Rom. 3. 25. Chap. 5. 11. Chap. 5. 1. Gal. 3. 26. and gives such Represenfation of the state of the Elect before Faith as it is altogether inconsistent with an actual Right in them Ephes 2. 1 2 3. 12 c. The Ministers that Subscribed to this and other Positions in behalf of themselves and the whole Assembly were as followeth William Kiffen Hanserd Knollys Andrew Giffard 〈…〉 bert Steed Thomas Vaux John Tomkins Toby Wells Benjamin Keach Samuel Buttall Isaac Lamb. Christopher Price Robert Keat Richard Tidmarsh James Webb John Harris Thomas Whinnel James Hitt Edward Price William Phips William Tacey John Ball. William Hankins Paul Fruin I might add Dr Owen Dr. Goodwin and many other Reverend and Orthodox Divins that say the same thing with us Mr. Perkins saith Justisicaeion before God is when God reputes a Man Just and that only for the Merits and Obedience of Christ. So soon saith he as a Man Believes he is presently Justified Faith therefore Justifieth because it is an Instrument to apprehend and apply that which Jnstifieth viz. Christ's Obedience On the Galatians Vol. 2. pag. 209. p. 235. Bishop Vsher saith speaking of the Adult There is no Vnion with Christ without Faith And agaih saith Faith Justifieth only Relatively in respect of the Object it sasteneth on viz. the Righteousness of Christ by which Faith we are Justified Faith being the Instrument or Begger 's Hand to receive the Alms. Body Divin pag. 195. 196. I might Cite a Volumn of our best Authors to the same Purpose See Dr. Ames ' s Marrow of Sacred Divinity p. 112. 117. The receiving of Christ is that whereby Christ being offered is joyned unto Man and Man unto Christ Again he saith Faith doth Justifie but no otherwise but as it apprehends Christ's Righteousness by which we are Justified Mr. John Simpson who was called an Antinomian Saith By Faith we are Justified as the Spiritual Instrument form'd of God See his Perfection of Justificotion p. 112. Take what the Reverend Mr. Tho. Cole delivered at Pinners-Hall July 21. 1696. He said The Marriage Bond between us and Christ is on Christ's part the Spirit and Faith on ours by which the Spirit Unites the Soul to Christ There can be no Union without Faith nor no Faith without Union for it that is the Spirit works both and brings in a Comfortable hope of Pardon from that full Satisfaction made by Christ to the Law and Justice of God so redeeming ns from the Curse of the Law and setting us at Liberty Question But may not a Debter demand immediately his Discharge as soon as he hears his Surety has discharg'd his Debt Answer Among Men the Debter finds the Surety and so may in point of Justice demand his Discharge but there is a great difference here seeing God found our Surety not we therefore tho' what he did was in our Stead and Room Yet we having all in a way of Sovereign Grace as well as in a way of Justice and Righteousness the Father and Son might in that Eternal Compact between them Both agree how and when we should have the Benefit of Christ's Merits and actual interest in him and so be Justified which no Adnlt Person hath until he Believes or receives the Spirit the Bond of that Union We must not say with the beforementioned David Culy That we may go to God with holy Impudence and say Father put off thy Righteousness for it is mine Are not these strange Expressions As if we were Justified by the Essential Righteousness of God Yea by the Righteousness of the Father and may Demand it with holy Impudence or rather unholy Impudence I 'll add no more but this one thing I desire those Persons who are so fond of this Notion would Consider What profitable Use can be made of Justification before Faith Also know that That Doctrin that hath no profitable Improvement to be made of it but many Absurdities to attend it is not a Truth of Christ But so it is here Ergo But Sad it is that People should be so left as to tare a Church in Peices because their Minister is not of their Opinion as will appear By the ensuing Narrative A true Copy of that Paper that was Wrote by the Agreement of Mr. Winkles and the Rest who Charged Mr. Coleman with dangerous Errors and for which they made that undue Seperation or Schism FIRST We the Members grieved of the Church aforesaid have a long time sate under his Ministry that is Mr. Coleman's and have not Profitted and according to the Rules of Christ we 〈…〉 laboured to be satisfied in this our Brother's Judgment To know Whether or no it was his Judgment which he Preached yea or no and 〈…〉 ing no Reformation in his Doctrine we the Members grieved afore 〈…〉 do think meet to enter our Dislikes to these Doctrines follow 〈…〉 which he hath delivered First That Sermon which you Preached from the 25th of Isa 〈…〉 6. after Brother Overen who kept that gracious Promise only 〈…〉 the Elect but you strained it further than to the Elect. Secondly when you Preached from Coloss 3. 11. But Christ is 〈…〉 ll and in All you said Be Christ's and he will be Yours if 〈…〉 make him your All and in All then he will make you his All 〈…〉 in All. Thirdly When you Preached from the 2. Cor. 5. 17. If any man 〈…〉 in Christ he is a new Creature You said it was not Election 〈…〉 in the Purpose of God which caused us to be in Christ but being 〈…〉 med of God Regenerated and Born again And likewise you 〈…〉 med That the Law is to be Preached first and not the Gospel 〈…〉 poor Sinners which is contrary to the Commission Christ gave to his Disciples he said Go unto all the World