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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

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

every wayes and on every hand so {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} so worthy meet or fit to be believed and so authoritatively and with that power of Evidence and Conviction commanding the obedience of Faith as the Scripture speaks unto it that such persons to whom it is preached or set forth like it self must needs have much either of the Bruit or of the Devil in them if there be place for the distinction and the Bruit in men be not the Devil in the shape or likeness of a So● if they give not the honour and homage of Faith unto it But of this I have reasoned more at large in a Treatise concerning the Divine Authority of the Scriptures And thus we see how and after what manner the Scriptures also or Word of God are operative in their way towards the justification of a sinner and may be sayd to justifie they instruct and teach men the way that leadeth unto justification yea they most effectually perswade urge and press men to walk in this way I mean the way of believing and by their innate property to convince the Judgments and Consciences of men of the truth of what they teach and say they do much facilitate or make easie bo●h mens entrance into and their walking likewise in this way And as the Law is sayd to have constituted or made men high Priests Heb. 7. 28. because it directed and taught men how to make them as viz. By the performance of all those Observations Rites and Ceremonies prescribed in this Law to give this great and sacred Investiture to a person capable by Gods appointment of the Dignity and then by declaring and authorizing them for such in the Name of God In like manner the Gospel or Word of God may be sayd to constitute or make men righteous i. To justifie them both because it teacheth and prescribeth unto them what they ought to do and must do that they may be justified and then by authority derived from God and in his Name pronounce avouch and declare them for such I mean for persons justified when they have performed and done that which they prescribe on this behalf 16. That the Publishers or Ministers of the Gospel Sect. 16 are not without some part and fellowship in the glorious and blessed business of Justification and according to their Interest herein may be sayd to justifie is not a forc'd or far-fetch conclusion from the Scriptures For when the Apostle Paul writeth to Timothy that by doing what he had directed him to do he should both save himself and those that heard him 1 Tim. 4. 16. and so assumeth unto himself a capacity of the same glorious Service Rom. 11. 14. If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh and might save some of them when I say he ascribeth that great Act and Service of saving men unto the Ministers of the Gospel he doth implicitely and by neer hand consequence ascribe unto them the justifying of them likewise For there is no consideration or respect wherein a Minister can be sayd to save men but by a precedaneous or presupposed Act of justifying them Nor is there any person capable of being saved by a Minister of the Gospell in his way or capacity of saving men who is not as capable or rather more capable of being justified by him Yea Dan. 12. 3. where our English Translation readeth And they that turn many unto righteousness shall shine as the Stars for ever and ever Junius and Tremelius from the Originall render it Et justificant e multos c. And they that justifie many shall shine c. so likewise Arias Montanus translateth together with the late Dutch Annotators The Scripture from place to place mentions it as the proper work of the Minister and as principally intended by God in the erection of the Ministeriall Function in the World to make Men and Women the Sons and Daughters of God by believing The same John came for a Witness to bear Witness of the light that all men through him might believe Joh. 1. 7. So the Apostle demands Who then is Paul and who is Apollo but Ministers by whom yee believed 1 Cor. 3 5. And calls Timothy his own Son in the Faith 1 Tim. 1 2. Now in such a sense wherein men may be sayd to be made believers by the Ministers of the Gospel they may be sayd to be justified also by them inasmuch as both these are accomplished or effected by one and the same Act the former directly and immediatly the latter mediatly and consequentially If you then ask me What doth the Minister contribute towards the justifying of men or in what consideration may he be sayd to justifie them My Answer is When he openeth unto them the Councell of God in the Gospell concerning the justification and salvation of men by Jesus Christ so effectually so throughly and with that evidence and demonstration of the Spirit as the Apostle speaks that mens Reasons Judgments and Consciences are so far convinced or perswaded of the truth of what is delivered upon such terms that they truly unfeignedly and with the whole heart believe it Now and upon this account he may be sayd to justifie them He that makes a man a Believer Ipso facto makes him righteous that is justifies him There is nothing more familiar and frequent in the Scripture then for the same Action and so the same Effect to be ascribed both unto God and Man to the former in respect of a superiour and more excellent interposure proper unto him to the latter in respect of that subordinate Efficiency or Subserviency wherewith God hath been pleased to honour him a yea the Apostle Paul termeth the Ministers of the Gospel {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Fellow-workers or workers together with God in and about the saving of the Souls of men 1 Cor. 3. 9. 17. That there is a consideration and sense also wherein the person justified may be sayd to justifie himself the Scripture it self seems to acknowledge For when it is sayd concerning Timothy that by taking heed Sect. 17 to himself and to tho Doctrine taught by him he should both save himself and them that heard him 1 Tim. 4. 16. there is an Action ascribed unto him in reference unto himself every whit as great and as incompetent to him in the ordinary signification of the word as the act of justifying To save a mans self sounds altogether as high as to justifie a mans self yea he that believeth may by much a neerer-hand consequence and with more propriety of speaking be said to justifie himself then to save himself When a man labours in his Calling and puts forth that strength of power which God hath given him to get Wealth Deut. 8. 18. for such a purpose and withall thrives and prospers through the blessing of God in his way he may properly enough be sayd to enrich