The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

All the actings of the Kingly and Prophetical Offices of Christ, are all of them from God, that is in the Name and Authority of God towards us. Not any one of them is towards God on our behalf, so as that by virtue of them, we should expect Acceptance with God. They are all Good, Blessed, Holy, in themselves, and of an eminent tendency unto the Glory of God in our Salvation: Yea, they are no less necessary unto our Salvation to the praise of Gods Grace, then are the Atonement for Sin and Satisfaction which he made; for from them is the way of life Revealed unto us, Grace communicated, our Persons sanctified, and the Reward bestowed. Yea, in the exercise of his Kingly power doth ⟨p. 167⟩the Lord Christ doth pardon and justify Sinners. Not that he did as a King constitute the Law of Justification, for it was given and established in the first Promise, and he came to put it in Execution; Joh. 3.16. But in the virtue of his Atonement and Righteousness imputed unto them, he doth both pardon and justify Sinners. But they are the acts of his Sacerdotal Office alone, that respect God on our behalf. Whatever he did on Earth with God for the Church, in Obedience, Suffering, and Offering up of himself, whatever he doth in Heaven in Intercession, and Appearance in the presence of God for us, it all entirely belongs unto his Priestly Office. And in these things alone doth the Soul of a convinced Sinner find Relief, when he seeks after Deliverance from the state of Sin and Acceptance with God. In these therefore alone the peculiar Object of his Faith, that which will give him Rest and Peace, must be comprised. And this last consideration is of it self sufficient to determine this difference.

All the actings of the Kingly and Prophetical Offices of Christ, are all of them from God, that is in the Name and Authority of God towards us. Not any one of them is towards God on our behalf, so as that by vertue of them, we should expect Acceptance with God. They are all Good, Blessed, Holy, in themselves, and of an eminent tendency unto the Glory of God in our Salvation: Yea, they are no less necessary unto our Salvation to the praise of Gods Grace, then are the Attonement for Sin and Satisfaction which he made; for from them is the way of life Revealed unto us, Grace communicated, our Persons sanctified, and the Reward bestowed. Yea, in the exercise of his Kingly power doth ⟨p. 167⟩