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…

So that I conclude, That this transient Act of God, pardoning and justifying (constitutive) is his Grant in the new Covenant; by which as a Moral Instrument, our Justification and Pardon are in time produced, even when we believe: the Obligation of the Law being then by it made void to us.

So that I conclude, That this transient Act of God, pardoning and justifying (constitutive) is his Grant in the new Covenant; by which as a Morall Instrument, our Justification and Pardon are in time produced, even when we beleeve: the Obligation of the Law being then by it made void to us.

And this is the present apprehension I have of the nature of Remission and Justification: Si quid novisti rectius, &c. (yet I shall have occasion afterwards to tell you, That all this is but Remission and Justification in Law and Title, which must be distinguished from that which is in Judgment or Sentence; the former being virtual in respect of the Actuality of the latter)

And this is the present apprehension I have of the nature of Remission and Justification: Si quid novisti rectius, &c. (yet I shall have occasion afterwards to tell you, That all this is but Remission and Justification in Law and Title, which must be distinguished from that which is in Judgment or Sentence; the former being vertual in respect of the Actuality of the latter)

2. The second kind of Gods Acts, which ⟨p. 117⟩may be called Justifying, is indeed Immanent; viz. his knowing the sinner to be pardoned and just in Law; his Willing and Approving hereof as True and Good: These are Acts in Heaven, yea in God himself; but the former sort are on earth also. I would not have those Acts of God separated which he doth conjoin; as he ever doth these last with the former: But I verily think that it is especially the former transient legal Acts which the Scripture usually means when it speaks of Pardoning and (constitutive) Justifying: and not these Immanent Acts: though these must be looked on as concurrent with the former. Yet most Divines that I meet with, seem to look at Pardon and Justification as being done in heaven only and consisting only in these later Immanent Acts: And yet they deny Justification to be an Immanent Act too: But how they will ever manifest that these celestial Acts of God, (viz. his Willing the sinners Pardon, and so forgiving him in his own breast; or his accepting him as just,) are Transient Acts, I am yet unable to understand. And if they be Immanent Acts, most will grant that they are from Eternity: and then fair fall the Antinomians. Indeed if God have a Bar in Heaven before his Angels, where these things are for the present transacted, as some think; and that we are said to be justified only at the bar now; then I confess that