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The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errors of Papists, Arminians,…The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errours of Papists, Arminians,…
The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errors of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially Antinomians in XXX lectures preached at Lawrence-Jury, London / by Anthony Burgess ...The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errours of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially Antinomians in XXX lectures preached at Lawrence-Iury, London / by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by A. Miller for Tho. Underhill, 1651
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Christ is in us, and we in Christ, Christ is in us, [Greek or Hebrew], by way of gift and actual working, and we are in Christ [Greek or Hebrew], by way of receiving; and both these are necessary, as appeareth, Joh. 15.5. and both are together in time, yet so that in order of nature Christs being in us is before our being in him, and the ground of all our comfort and fruit, is not, because we are in him, but he in us (even as the branch beareth fruit, not because it is in the Vine, but because the Vine is in it, communicating efficacy to it.) Thus also faith and Justification are together, yet so as one is produced by the other, we are not justified, and therefore believe, but we believe and are therefore justified.
Christ is in us, and we in Christ, Christ is in us, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, by way of gift and actual working, and we are in Christ 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, by way of receiving; and both these are necessary, as appeareth, Joh. 15.5. and both are together in time, yet so that in order of nature Christs being in us is before our being in him, and the ground of all our comfort and fruit, is not, because we are in him, but he in us (even as the branch beareth fruit, not because it is in the Vine, but because the Vine is in it, communicating efficacy to it.) Thus also faith and Justification are together, yet so as one is produced by the other, we are not justified, and therefore believe, but we believe and are therefore justified.
Lastly, This may be retorted upon the opponent, who (as was alleged before) denieth any actual reconciliation, till we do believe. But may not we strike the adversary with his own reason in this manner? He that is in Christ is actually reconciled. But we must be in Christ before we do believe. Therefore we must be actually reconciled, before we do believe.