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A70858 Christos dikaiosynē, or, Jesus Christ given of God the Father for our justification explained, confirmed, and applyed (very briefly) in one sermon to the satisfaction of some judicious hearers, for whose sake chiefly and at whose earnest request, it is made publick. Pichard, Thomas.; Pritchard, Thomas, M.A. 1667 (1667) Wing P3525; ESTC R14899 19,708 36

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also is this w●rd taken in a Law sense Psalm 143.2 Lord enter not into judgement with thy servant for in thy sight shall no man be justified Rom. 5.16 Judgment was by one to condemnation but the free Gift is of many offences to justification Now the Scripture speaks of a righteousness of the Cause and of a righteousness of the Person 1. Of the Cause 1. Justitia Causae When a man in other respects sinful may be said in this or that particular cause or matter to be innocent or just as in the case of Abimelech Gen. 20.5 touching the matter of Sarah he pleads the integrity of his heart and the innocency of his hands c. 2. Of the Person 2. Justitia Personae That is the universal conformity of the whole man and of all his actions to the holy Law of God and this two-fold 1. Legal 2. Evangelical 1. Legal By the Law and the works thereof Hac justificatione Angeli sancti fruuntur Polan Mat. 3.15 Rom. 8.3 4. hereby the Man Christ Jesus and none but he on earth was in a strict sense legally just and righteous he only fulfilled all righteousness even the righteousness of the whole Law and the Holy Angels are thus justified 2. Evangelical That in short is this through faith in Christs righteousness a believing sinner is justified before God in foro coeli in the Court of Heaven Rom. 5.1 Finis perficiens non interficiens And Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness to every one that believeth Rom. 10.4 we ought directly to go to Christ for justification and not to go back to Moses by him all that believe are justified from all things Acts 13.38 39. from which ye could not be justified by the Law of Moses a sense whereof a believer hath more or lesse in foro Conscientiae in his own conscience Rom. 14.17 The kingdome of God is not meat and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the holy Ghost Rom. 5. from the 12. to the end proves at large our sole and whole justification by the righteousness of One even Jesus Christ In a word the Lord accepteth and reputeth a guilty unworthy sinner yet believing as righteous by the free imputation of the righteousness of Christ unto him Thus much for the Terms Justifie and Justification 3. We come in the third place to the definition of Justification I am not ignorant that the definitions thereof are many but the most clear and comprehensive I take to be this What is Justification Answ Justification is a most merciful and righteous Action of God as Judge whereby Definition of justification imputing the righteousness of Christ to a believing sinner he absolveth him from his sins and accepteth of him as righteous in Christ and as an heir of eternal life to the praise and glory of his own mercy and justice All which at leastwise for the most part is comprehended in Rom. 3.23 24 25 26. I do not intend at this time to prosecute the parts of this Definition at large but only speak to two things in transitu 1. The justification of a sinner is an Act of God as Lord Law-giver and Judge Rom. 8 33. it is God that justifieth the whole Trinity Opera Trinitatis ad extra sunt indivisa Father Son and Spirit Jam. 4.12 There is one Law-giver who is able to save and to destroy none but the offended Majesty can pardon mans offences 'T is the injured Deity that saith I even I am he that blotteth out thy Transgressions for mine own sake and will not remember thy sins Isa 43.25 O glorious and gracious Word Hee that will by no meanes clear the guilty having received satisfaction in his Son by the imputation of his Sons righteousness justifies the ungodly acquits them from the guilt of sin Rom. 4.5 and accepts them as righteous in his sight 2. The righteousness of justification quatenus justification works not a real inherent change in us which is done in sanctification but makes a relative change without us and upon us as it is a judicial act of God an act of God as Law-giver and Judge in opposition to Condemnation Justification makes a relative change or mutation in respect of a mans estate or condition a guilty person is pronounced righteous the sinful Debtor is discharged an Enemy is now reconciled a miserable captive is redeemed a childe of wrath is made a Son of God and an unworthy worm an heir of Glory These are relative mutations though they that are justified are also together sanctified in order of Time these acts of grace are wrought together but in order of Nature justification is the Antecedent and sanctification is the Consequent and mark it where justification changeth a mans Relation to God and Eternity there sanctification changeth a mans disposition and renews the soul with inward holiness both are the sacred effluxes from Christs righteousness the first is wrought by the righteousness of Christ imputed the other by the righteousness of Christ imparted one by Christs personal righteousness the other by way of influence Christ is both caput eminentiae caput influentiae and infusion from Christ as Head Wee ought to take great heed least we confound justification with sanctification as Bellarmine and the Papists do 4. In the fourth place we come to shew the essential parts of our justification and these are two 1. Absolution from sin 2. Acceptation as righteous in Christ Both which the Lord granteth by the plenary and perfect satisfaction made to his Law and justice by Jesus Christ both our Surety and Mediatour by which he satisfied the Law in both parts 1. He satisfied the Law in respect of the penalty by his Passion or passive righteousness undergoing the Curse for us Gal. 3.13 2. He satisfied the Law in respect of the Precept by his perfect active righteousnesse habitual and actual but neither of these can be severed any where from the other Rom 3.4 And these which God hath so indissolvably joined let no man put assunder each hath its proper interest in and respective contribution toward the satisfying the injured honour of Gods Law for the honour of Gods Law is the equity of both its parts its Command and its threatning Christs active righteousness the obedience of the Great God-man hath honoured the equity of the first viz. repaired the honour of Gods Commandments broken by sinful man And his passive righteousness in like manner honours the equity of the Threatning Christ himself dies to justifie that the sinner is worthy of Death and by offering up himself as a sacrifice on the Crosse he proclaims to all the world that sin is exceeding sinful and that God is exceeding jealous Again Consider See Wallebius his Body of Divinity with the Notes of Mr. Rosse p. 109. Christs active Righteousness was every where passive the distinction of active and passive is needless and