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…

EXPLICATION.

I Have showed before, p. 57. 58. &c. That Christ intended not to remove all our misery as soon as he dyed, nor as soon as we believed. I am now to show, That he doth not justify by the shedding of his blood immediately, without somewhat of man intervening, to give him a legal title thereto. All the Scriptures alleged pag. 79. prove this: We are therefore said to be justified by faith. Let all the Antinomians show but one Scripture which speaks of Justification from eternity. I know God hath decreed to justify his people from eternity, and so he hath to sanctify them too, but both of them are done in time: Justification being no more an imminent act in God then Sanctification, as I shall show afterward.

I Have shewed before, p. 57. 58. &c. That Christ intended not to remove all our misery as soon as he dyed, nor as soon as we believed. I am now to shew, That he doth not justifie by the shedding of his blood immediately, without somewhat of man intervening, to give him a legall title thereto. All the Scriptures alledged pag. 79. prove this: We are therefore said to be justified by faith. Let all the Antinomians shew but one Scripture which speaks of Justification from eternity. I know God hath decreed to justifie his people from eternity, and so he hath to sanctifie them too, but both of them are done in time: Justification being no more an imminent act in God then Sanctification, as I shall shew afterward.

The Blood of Christ then is sufficient in fuo genere, but not in omni genere sufficient for its own work, but not for every work. There are several other necessaries to justify and save, quibus positis, which being supposed the Blood of Christ will be effectual: Not that it receives its efficacy from these, nor that these do add any thing at all to its worth or value; no more then the Cabinet to the Jewel, or the applying hand to the medicine: or the offenders-acceptation to the pardon of his Prince; yet without this acceptation and application this blood will not be effectual to justify us. For (as Grotius) Cum unusquisque actui ex suâ voluntate pendenti legem possit imponere, sicut id quod pure debetur novari potest sub conditione, ita etiam possunt, is qui solvit pro alio, & is qui rei alterius pro alterâ solutionem admittit, pacisci, ut aut statim sequatur remissio, aut in diem, item aut pure, aut sub conditione, Fuit autem & Christi satisfacientis & dei satisfactione in admittentis hic animus ac voluntas, hoc denique pactam & foedus, non ut deus statim ipso perpessionis Christi tempore paenas remitteret, sed ut tum demum id fieret; cum homo, vera in Christum fide ad deum conversus, supplex veniam precaretur, accedente etiam Christi apud deum advocatione sive intercessione. Non obstat hic ergo satisfactio quo minus sequi possit remissio satisfactio enim nonjam sustulerat debitum, sed hoc egerat, ut propter ipsam debitum aliquando tolleretur, Grot. de satis.