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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64243	The true light shining in darkness and dispelling the mists of errour arising from the darkness of man's heart, &c. promoted by the prince of darkness against the truth of God; in the matter of our justification: shewing, that by the deeds of the law, or mans own righteousness, no flesh can or shall be justified in the sight of God. The first part. By Tho. Taylor, the meanest and unworthiest of the servants and ministers of Jesus Christ; and now pastor to a small congregational church in Cambridge.	Taylor, Thomas, 1618-1682.	1693 (1693)	Wing T559; ESTC R219692	113,014	241

because reconciliation supposeth a breach first made by sin now the breach made betwixt God and Man by sin was not from Eternity but in time and therefore reconciliation could not be from Eternity and without reconciliation by shedding of blood there is no remission as Heb. 9.22 i. e. No Justification to the Church of Gods Elect for Remission of sins is their Justification Part. 3. This Doctrine of Justification from Eternity destroyeth and overthroweth the true Doctrine of Justification it self also which is another fundamental point of the Christian Faith and therefore this Doctrine of Justification from Eternity cannot be true Now the true Doctrine of Justification is that Act of Gods Grace passed or put forth upon the person Elect whereby of a guilty ungodly and unrighteous person before he is really made and doth become a righteous person in Gods sight through Faith in his Son Jesus Christ given unto him I say he is made and doth become a righteous person in Gods sight and that really and not by opinion only as some would imagine and here are two things to be cleared as namely 1. That every man in this World is really made and doth become a guil●y and condemned person in Gods sight by the first sin of Adam justly imputed to him by the Law so Rom. 3.9 10 and again ver 19 20. which the Apostle plainly affirmeth by a comparison of the two Adam's Rom. 5.19 For as by one mans disobedience many were made sinners c. ver 18. Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came or it came upon all men to condemnation in Gods sight So that 't is plain the many ver 19. is all men ver 18. even the Elect of God as well as others 2. That as in the first Adam all men did become and were really made sinners in Gods sight by the just imputation of Adam's sin to them by the Law even so in Christ many as v. 19. or all men as ver 18. i. e. all that believe are justified i. e. are made and do become righteous in Gods sight through Faith in Christ by the righteousness of one or by the obedience of one justly imputed to them by the Law of Faith and Grace So that as before Justification every man was really a guilty and unrighteous person in Gods sight So now that Faith in Christ is come every man that believeth is justified and doth become and is made a righteous person in Gods sight So that Justification maketh a real change of State from a state of sin and unrighteousness and death to a state of Grace Righteousness and Life Now therefore he that is Justified from Eternity was from Eternity in a state of Grace Righteousness and Life and never was in a state of Sin Unrighteousness and Death he never was a Sinner Ungodly and condemned in Gods sight and Sin had never raigned in him unto Death in whom Grace had raigned unto Life through Righteousness from all Eternity but the contrary is true in all them whom God Justifieth as Rom. 4.5 Now to him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his Faith is counted for Righteousness and Rom. 5.6 For when we were yet without strength in due time Christ died for the Ungodly and v. 21. That as sin hath reigned unto death even so might Grace reign through Righteousness unto Eternal Life by Jesus Christ our Lord So that we who are now Justified by Faith in Christ were without strength were ungodly were under the reign of Sin unto Death but he that was Justified from Eternity was never any of these and therefore no man was or could be Justified from Eternity there is a contradiction in the things themselves and therefore this Doctrine is inconsistent with the truth for Sin did not reign unto death in any from Eternity but in Time therefore Grace could not reign through Righteousness unto Life in any from Eternity but in time Part. 4. This Doctrine of Justification from Eternity destroyeth also the Doctrine of Adoption which inseparably followeth Justification and is another inseparable point of the Christian Faith I say Adoption followeth and is an inseparable companion of Justification by Faith in Christ he that is Justified by Faith in Christ is also adopted and taken into the number of Gods Sons or Children by the same Faith as Gal 3.24.25.26 That we might be justified by Faith v 24. But after that Faith is come v. 25. Ye are all the Children of God by Faith in Christ Jesus by the same faith by which any man is Justified by the same Faith also he is Adopted and made a Son or Child of God and so again Gal. 4 4 5 7. Now no man was Adopted from Eternity and therefore no man was Justified from Eternity And he that was Adopted from Eternity was never a Servant but a Son was never a Child of Disobedience a Child of Wrath as Ephes. 2.2 3. but a Child of God from eternity and then there never could be any Predestination to the Adoption of Children as Ephes. 1.5 that the Adoption of Children had been from eternity Part. 5. This Doctrine of Justification from Eternity denieth destroyeth and overthroweth by consequence the truth and doctrine of discrimination or making a difference betwixt the state of Nature and the state of Grace which the holy Scriptures do every where establish The state of Nature according the Scriptures is a state of Sin and so of Death and Condemnation as hath been already shewed But the state of Grace is a state of Righteousness and so of Life and Justification as hath also been declared through Faith in the Son of God Rom. 9.30 and Rom. 10.4 John 5.24 and 1 John 4.14 Now he that saith he was Justified from Eternity saith that he was in a state of Life from Eternity and by consequence never was in a state of Sin and Death for Justification is Life as Condemnation is Death Rom. 5.18 but most certain it is that all were dead and in a state of sin and condemnation before they believed on Christ even the Elect of God as well as others as 2 Cor. 5.14 And the death of Christ for all the Elect doth prove that they were all dead and in a state of Death Jews and Gentiles for else Christ needed not to have died for them and the love of Christ doth constrain all them to acknowledge that they were dead and therefore are debtors to Christ for their Life and Justification through Faith in him and so no more to live to themselves but to him that died for them and rose again The words are most plain and the sense most genuine For the love of Christ constraineth us because we thus judge that if one died for all then were all dead And that he died for all that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves but unto him which died for them and rose again Therefore seeing they were once dead

of the law no flesh should be justified in his sight that so no flesh might glory in his sight no not one amongst the many Sons which are and shall be brought unto glory that as Abraham the father of the faithful so none of the children of Abraham might have whereof to glory before God God is very jealous of his glory and will not have any creature in Heaven or Earth to come in as a sharer with him in that glory whcih is his own peculiar and appertaineth unto himself alone And therefore hath so wisely disposed things in the aeconomy of Salvation that Man being raised from the lowest degree and Abyss of Sin and misery to the highest pitch and height of Grace and glory should have nothing to boast of nothing to glory in before him but to cry Grace Grace unto this spiritual Workmanship and building of God by Jesus Christ even from the first foundation stone to the topstone thereof as Zech. 4.7 So that now boasting is here for ever excluded and glorying cut off from all flesh as Rom. 3.27 Where is boasting then It is excluded by what law of works Nay but by the law of Faith The law of works had it carried the glory of giving life and righteousness to Man could not have excluded boasting but had admitted boasting even amongst the Sons of glory every person amongst them would have had something of his own to boast of his own free will against Gods free Grace his own works and righteousness against Gods free promise and Grace in Christ Jesus But now by the law of Faith boasting is utterly and for ever excluded And that this was Gods design is plain from 1 Cor. 1.29 30 31. Eph. 2.9 And thus as Gods own glory is his highest end as in all his other works so also in this great work of justification by Faith and not by the works of the law so his own most Holy and Sovereign will is the most perfect Rule in order to that end as Eph. 1.11 12. Who worketh all things after the counsel of his will That we should be to the praise of his Glory There is nothing more hateful to God than Pride The Angels for Pride were cast down to Hell God resisteth the proud but giveth Grace to the humble a proud professor is most hateful to God for a professor to make himself his end in his Religious works and duties as Zech. 7.5 6. and to make his own will his rule as 2 Pet. 2.10 is to make himself a God to himself And is the highest contradiction to the Divine will which is the most perfect rule of his obedience and to the Divine glory which is his highest end now therefore God hath so provided that amongst all those that are justified not by the works of the law or their own righteousness but by Faith in Jesus Christ no flesh should glory in his sight either by ascribing to his own free will in opposition to Gods free Grace or in his own works and righteousness in opposition to the free promise and the righteousness of God which is by the Faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe 5. It hath seemed good to the most wise and holy God by the interposition of sin in the transgression of the first Covenant and the frustration thereof as to any possibility of giving Righteousness and Life to any man under the Heavens under which all are concluded and shut up to order things unto this issue that so occasion might be given to glorifie his justice in the punishing of sin and to Reveal his wrath from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of Men as Rom. 1.18 Had there been no sin there had been no wrath and so no manifestation of Gods righteous judgment no revelation of his wrath from Heaven against all unrighteousness of men upon this Earth Now it was absolutely n●●●ssary with respect to Gods greater glory that as his mercy grace and Love should be manifested towards some as hath been already shewed so his just wrath and the power of it should also be made manifest against others who upon that occount are called Vessels of wrath and fitted to destruction as others are called Vessels of mercy and aforehand prepared unto glory as Rom. 9.22 23 v. What if God willing to shew his wrath and to make his power known endured with much long suffering the Vessels of wrath fitted to destruction· There are amongst men in this World Vessels of Wrath as well as Vessels of Mercy As amongst men Vessels have their denomination from that which they contain and are filled up with So Vessels of Oyl Vessels of Wine Vessels of Water c. So here some are called Vessels of Mercy because they are filled with Mercy Grace and Love from God in and through his Son Jesus Christ and by this mercy grace and love of God in Christ to them they are afore-hand prepared unto glory So on the other hand others are called Vessels of wrath because they are the objects of Gods wrath and by the fulness of Sin when it is finished and grown ripe in them they are fitted to destruction and shall be filled with the infinite wrath of God and that for ever For their worm dyeth not and their fire is not quenched as Mark 9.44 Now such was the will the sovereign will of God that this warth of his and the Power of this wrath should be manifested and shewed forth in the glory of it towards these Vessels of warth what if God willing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as much as determining resolving in ●he Council of his will For here the word willing doth not signifie barely a consent of the will that such a thing shall be done but a fixed purpose and Counsel of the Divine will determining and decreeing To shew his wrath and to make his power known on the Vessels of wrath fitted to destruction Now there had been no occasion for the revelation of this part o● the Divine will and the shewing forth his wrath and the making of his power know towards these Vessels of wrath if sin had not once entered and the Law by transgression been disabled as to the giving Man Life and Righteousness by the works of it yea if there had been no sin there had been no Vessels of wrath nor any fitting of them to destruction And thus the wise and holy God hath over-ruled Sin and the Transgression of his holy Law to his own glory in the manifestation of these Vessels of wrath amongst Men in this World and in the fitting of them to destruction and in taking occasion thereby to shew his wrath and to make his Power known partly in this World and more abundantly in that which is to come So that all the patience and long-suffering of God towards these Vessels of Wrath hath no other issue than by their continuance in Sin and filling up the measure of their Iniquity to ripen and