Aphorisms of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…Aphorismes of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…

5. No man dare affirm, that we are immediately upon Christs death, delivered actually, and ipso facto, from the power or presence of sin, nor from afflictions and death, which are the fruits of it; nor yet that we are freed from the distance and separation from God which sin procured. And why then should we think that we were immediately delivered from the guilt and condemnation?

5. No man dare affirm, that we are immediatly upon Christs death, delivered actually, and ipso facto, from the power or presence of sin, nor from afflictions and death, which are the fruits of it; nor yet that we are freed from the distance and separation from God which sin procured. And why then should we think that we were immediately delivered from the guilt and condemnation?

I know the common answer is, that justification is an immanent act, and therefore from eternity; but Sanctification is a transient act. But I have disproved this in the Treatise, and cleared to you, that justification is also a transient Act: Otherwise Socinianism were the soundest doctrine, that Christ never needed to satisfy, if we were justified from eternity. Yet (to confess the truth) I was long deceived with this Argument my self, taking it upon trust from Dr. Twice and Mr. Pemble, (whom I valued above most other men; and so continued of that same judgement with these Authors you allege, and remained long ⟨p. 319⟩in the borders of Antinomianism, which I very narrowly escaped: And it grieveth me to see many of our Divines to fight against Jesuits and Arminians with the Antinomian weapons, as if our cause afforded no better; and so they run into the far worse extreme.

I know the common answer is, that justification is an immanent act, and therefore from eternity; but Sanctification is a transient act. But I have disproved this in the Treatise, and cleared to you, that justification is also a transient Act: Otherwise Socinianisme were the soundest doctrine, that Christ never needed to satisfie, if we were justified from eternity. Yet (to confesse the truth) I was long deceived with this Argument my self, taking it upon trust from Dr. Twisse and Mr. Pemble, (whom I valued above most other men; and so continued of that same judgement with these Authors you alledge, and remained long