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A29752	The life of justification opened, or, A treatise grounded upon Gal. 2, II wherein the orthodox doctrine of justification by faith, & imputation of Christ's righteousness is clearly expounded, solidly confirmed, & learnedly vindicated from the various objections of its adversaries, whereunto are subjoined some arguments against universal redemption / by that faithful and learned servant of Jesus Christ Mr. John Broun ...	Brown, John, 1610?-1679.	1695 (1695)	Wing B5031; ESTC R36384	652,467	570

even those who were purer in appearance pressing the moral duties practical doctrine of pietie I mean the followers of that famous Minister Mr. Richard Baxter did corrupt the true Doctrine of Justification because they adopted Universal Grace and Redemption For suspending such an Universal Redemption as Conditional upon the vertue of Faith taught that Justification is depending upon this vertue and consequently that a man by Faith as a vertue must be justified and because Repentance should be acknowledged as a Condition of eternal happiness beside the vertue of Faith therefore they imagine that Justification may be suspended even upon Repentance so that we must believe that Justification is not only by Faith but also by Repentance But O my Brethren ye are out of the way ye have left your first love Remember therefore from whence ye are fallen and repent and do the first works Remember the former dayes and years Remember your former Divines at the beginning of the Reformation Iuel Whitaker Perkins and other glorious stars once shining in your Countrey Remember the Apologie of your Church against that harlot of Rome written by that most excellent Divine J. Iuel B. of Salisbury approved of your Fathers Remember your Confession aggreeing with all the Confessions of Reformed Churches and confirmed in the dayes of Q. Elisabeth An. 1562. by a Synodical decree yea by the Parliament of your Kingdome Remember the former ages when the Doctrine of Anselme Bradwardine Archb. of Canterbury against Pelagianisme sounded obtained in your Churches Yea Bradwardine his book de Causa Dei opposed to the Cause of men defended by Pelagianisme printed first in this age An. 1616. in the dayes of King Iames who himself was a great Adversarie to Arminian tenets by the care and studie of George Abboth a worthy successour of that great Divine because he loved the Doctrine of Grace and could not endure that Arminian errours should infect the Church of England to that time depending onely upon the grace of our Saviour Jesus Christ. But what great iniquitie is it now to neglect this grace and leaving the principles of Protestant Religion to rely upon and trust to our own works for Salvation My Brethren how think ye to mingle the Law with the Gospel the Righteousness of Christ with your own your faith depending alone upon your Saviour with your works What will ye say when you wil dye this weighty case of Conscience comes to be resolved how shall my poor guiltie sinful Soul be justified before a Righteous God How can ye thus prepare the way to return and lead your followers back again unto Babylon What fellowship hath Righteousness with unrighteousness or what communion hath light with darkness Yet glory be to God in the highest who hath reserved by his grace many Protestant and Learned Divines against all these and the like errours And hence we have the learned Labours of the worthy J. BURGES J. OWEN A. PITCAIRN and other eminent Divines worthy to be remembered in all ages And to those great Doctours we may very warrantably add the worthy Author of the following Treatise Mr. JOHN BROUN whose praise liv's deservedly in the Churches and whose light did for a considerable space shine here in our Low-countreys when through the iniquitie of the times he was because of his zeal pietie faithfulness and good Conscience obliged to leave his native Land Yet was he not idle for while he was here he wrote with a great deal of wisdom against the Philosophers of this time who would subject the Scriptures to Philosophie setting up humane Reason for a Rule of Scripture-Interpretations Moreover he was known in our Churches by his Books of the Perpetual Moralitie of the Sabbath written with a great efficacie of Arguments and approved by Fr. Spanheym that worthy and most famous Divine of our age besides what other Treatises he wrote in English But we have here his work of Justification as a Posthumus full of Wisdom Doctrine and Pietie The Author had committed the care of it to his very intimate and dear acquaintance the Reverend and Learned Mr. JAMES KOELMAN who while he was alive had the care of it at the press but before the work was perfected he was called home to his Masters joy after he had faithfully served God in his generation And I being now desired to prefix the accustomed Ceremonie of an Epistle to this excellent book of Mr. JOHN BROUN I undertook it most cheerfully with all my heart For I must give Testimony to the Reverend Learned Author of this work that he wisely expounds the mysteries of Justification according to the Doctrine of the Gospel the principles oft he Reformed Churches that he confirms the expounded Doctrine with efficacious arguments able to stop the mouths of all Adversaries that he prudently dissolves all their vain oppositions that he shows himself a true Christian Minister and a Scribe well instructed by the Holy Spirit unto the Kingdom of God And therefore this excellent book was worthy to be printed to be esteemed and loved amongst the best Treatises upon this great and weighty Doctrine of Justification I need say no more the work will speak for it self and the Judicious Readers oun experience will testifie that it is written in the Demonstration of the Spirit Power profitable for Doctrine Reproof Correction Instruction in Righteousness and Consolation of penitent souls I pray the God of all grace that he would give the Readers the Spirit of Wisdom and of a sound mind that having the eyes of their understandings enlightened they may know what are the great mysteries of Redemption and may be sound in the Faith in order to this fundamental point of Justification here expounded and vindicated with this full persuasion of mind that the Reformed profession is the true way of Salvation able to save a sinner eternally according to the Covenant of Grace revealed in the Gospel MELCHIOR LEYDECKER S. S. Th. D. Prof. Dabam Ultraj. 1 Apr. 1695. P. S. Atque haec quidem ego Britonum Sermone ut potui Si quid commissum est culpae adversus linguae genium id condonandum Belgae est Conari imitari exterorum linguam eruditis haud vulgarem satis erat Interim si Latino Sermone uti licuisset pluribus Doctrinam Ecclesiae Reformatae de Gratia Justificatione explicuissem ut forte horum animum moverem qui prima Principia ipsius Euangelii a Paulo ad Romanos ad Galatas ad Ephesios demonstrata neglexerunt ac deseruerunt Nunc sufficiat ex Confessione Anglicana quosdam Articulos notasse in quos digitum Praefatione intendebam uti habentur in Corpore Syntagmate Confessionum fidei quae in diversis Regnis Nationibus Ecclesiarum nomine fuerunt Authenticè editae Haec enim ibi medium habet locum quod cum caeteris accurate conveniret Utinam tali haberetur hodie veneratione quali fuit habita antiquitus quando