A23636:186
The principles of the Protestant religion maintained, and churches of New-England, in the profession…
The principles of the Protestant religion maintained, and churches of New-England, in the profession and exercise thereof defended against all the calumnies of one George Keith, a Quaker, in a book lately published at Pennsylvania, to undermine them both / by the ministers of the Gospel in Boston.The principles of the Protestant religion maintained, and churches of New-England, in the profession and exercise thereof defended against all the calumnies of one George Keith, a Quaker, in a book lately published at Pensilvania, to undermine them both / by the ministers of the Gospel in Boston.
printed by Richard Pierce, 1690
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Sect. 1. When he saith, God doth not justify men in their Ungodliness, but from it, would be true, if he had not perverted it afterwards. To justify a man is to uphold and defend him in such a way, and to say to the wicked, thou art righteous; this is far from God. But to justify a man from his ungodliness, may admit of a double Interpretation, if it intend that He absolves a man from his ungodliness by a gracious act of pardon & acquittance, it is true: but if it intend a taking away of his sin from him by cleansing him from his filthiness and purging the corruption of it out of him, (as he after interprets himself) this is no Justification at all, but belongs to Sanctification.
Sect. 1. When he saith, God doth not justifie men in their Ʋngodliness, but from it, would be true, if he had not perverted it afterwards. To justifie a man is to uphold and defend him in such a way, and to say to the wicked, thou art righteous; this is far from God. But to justifie a man from his ungodliness, may admit of a double Interpretation, if it intend that He absolves a man from his ungodliness by a gracious act of pardon & acquittance, it is true: but if it intend a taking away of his sin from him by cleansing him from his filthiness and purging the corruption of it out of him, (as he after interprets himself) this is no Justification at all, but belongs to Sanctification.
Sect. 2. He saith, They are only the sanctified that are justified; if he intends that ⟨p. 104⟩whom God doth justify, He doth also sanctify, it is a great truth; but if he puts Sanctification (which is a Concomitant) to be a cause of Justification, yea, the material cause, (as his following Discourse evidently insinuates) it is a deceit: and here he mistaketh when he saith, That we are the seed of Christ by Sanctification: which is only a benefit which Christ bestows on His seed, and not a cause of their being so. And when he tells us, That Christ bestows Adoption only on His brethren, it is as much as if he had said that Christ only Adopts the Adopted.