The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

A very few words will also free our enquiry from any concernment, in that which is called sentential Justification, at the day of Judgment. For of what nature soever it be, the person concerning whom that sentence is pronounced, was (1) actually and completely justified before God in this World; (2) made partaker of all the Benefits of that Justification, even unto a blessed Resurrection in Glory; (it is raised in Glory; 1 Cor. 15.) (3) The Souls of the most will long before have enjoyed a blessed Rest with God, absolutely discharged and acquitted from all their labours, and all their sins; There remains nothing but an actual Admission of the whole person into eternal Glory. Wherefore this Judgment can be no more but declaratory unto the glory of God, and the everlasting Refreshment of them that have believed. And without reducing of it unto a new Justification, as it is no where called in the Scripture; the ends of that solemn Judgment, in the manifestation of the Wisdom and Righteousness of God, in appointing the way of Salvation by Christ, as well as in giving of the Law; the public conviction of them, by whom the Law hath been transgressed and the Gospel despised; the vindication of the Righteousness, power and wisdom of God in the rule of the World by his providence, wherein for the most part, his paths unto all in this life are in the deep, and his footsteps are not known; the Glory and Honour of Jesus Christ, triumphing over all his Enemies, then fully made his footstool; and the glorious exaltation of Grace in all that do Believe, with sundry other things of an alike tendency unto the ultimate manifestation ⟨p. 224⟩of Divine Glory in the Creation and Guidance of all things, are sufficiently manifest.

A very few words will also free our enquiry from any concernment, in that which is called sentential Justification, at the day of Judgment. For of what nature soever it be, the person concerning whom that sentence is pronounced, was (1) actually and compleatly justified before God in this World; (2) made partaker of all the Benefits of that Justification, even unto a blessed Resurrection in Glory; (it is raised in Glory; 1 Cor. 15.) (3) The Souls of the most will long before have enjoyed a blessed Rest with God, absolutely discharged and acquitted from all their labours, and all their sins; There remains nothing but an actual Admission of the whole person into eternal Glory. Wherefore this Judgment can be no more but declaratory unto the glory of God, and the everlasting Refreshment of them that have believed. And without reducing of it unto a new Justification, as it is no where called in the Scripture; the ends of that solemn Judgment, in the manifestation of the Wisdom and Righteousness of God, in appointing the way of Salvation by Christ, as well as in giving of the Law; the publick conviction of them, by whom the Law hath been transgressed and the Gospel despised; the vindication of the Righteousness, power and wisdom of God in the rule of the World by his providence, wherein for the most part, his paths unto all in this life are in the deep, and his footsteps are not known; the Glory and Honour of Jesus Christ, triumphing over all his Enemies, then fully made his footstool; and the glorious exaltation of Grace in all that do Believe, with sundry other things of an alike tendency unto the ultimate manifestation