Precious faith considered in its nature, working, and growth

Secondly, In justification there must be a Justifier. It is God that justifieth, and whom doth he justify but the Believer in Jesus? unto him he makes over Christ and his righteousness; unto him he seals an actual pardon and remission; his sins are covered, never to appear more in their ugly hue; blotted out, never to be read more in their bloody characters; cast into the depths of the Sea, and who can fetch them up again? sought for and not found, and who can charge them afresh upon the Believer? St. Paul would have the debts of Onesimus put upon his account, Philem. v. 18. The Believers sins do not stand, as they did at first, upon his score, but upon Christs, who came to make an end of them. When the swarms of Flies were upon the Egyptians and not upon the Israelites, the Text saith, God made a division; or, as it is in the original, A redemption between them, Exod. 8.23. That swarms of Guilt sly about Unbelievers, and none about Believers, it is because the redemption is between them, on the one hand neglected, and on the other applied: We are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ, Rom 3.24. The Believer is, as I may say, a part or portion of Christ, wrapped up in his Righteousness, ⟨p. 212⟩and washed in his Blood; an Object all-fair and lovely in the eyes of God, and accepted in the Beloved.

Secondly, In justification there must be a Justifier. It is God that justifieth, and whom doth he justifie but the Believer in Jesus? unto him he makes over Christ and his righteousness; unto him he seals an actual pardon and remission; his sins are covered, never to appear more in their ugly hue; blotted out, never to be read more in their bloody characters; cast into the depths of the Sea, and who can fetch them up again? sought for and not found, and who can charge them afresh upon the Believer? St. Paul would have the debts of Onesimus put upon his account, Philem. v. 18. The Believers sins do not stand, as they did at first, upon his score, but upon Christs, who came to make an end of them. When the swarms of Flies were upon the Egyptians and not upon the Israelites, the Text saith, God made a division; or, as it is in the original, A redemption between them,