A57980:1637
A survey of the spiritual antichrist opening the secrets of familism and antinomianism in…A survey of the spirituall antichrist opening the secrets of familisme and antinomianisme in…
A survey of the spiritual antichrist opening the secrets of familism and antinomianism in the antichristian doctrine of John Saltmarsh and Will. Del, the present preachers of the army now in England, and of Robert Town, by Samuel Rutherfurd ...A survey of the spirituall antichrist opening the secrets of familisme and antinomianisme in the antichristian doctrine of John Saltmarsh and Will. Del, the present preachers of the army now in England, and of Robert Town, by Samuel Rutherfurd ...
London: printed by J.D. & R.I. for Andrew Crooke, 1648
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.
CHAP. LIX. How Justification is one indivisible act, not successive, as Sanctification, and yet God daily pardoneth sins.
CHAP. LIX. How Justification is one indivisible act, not successive, as Sanctification, and yet God dayly pardoneth sinnes.
We make no question but we are at once justified, and not by degrees and succession, as we are sanctified, because justification is a foreinsecall, and Law-change, or judicial sentence of God, absolving the person of the sinner from all punishment, or obligation to punishment due to him for sins, past, present, and to come, according to the rule of revenging, and Law-pursuing justice, and that for the alone righteousness of the surety Christ, freely imputed, and by faith received of him, aand the blood of Jesus Christ shall purge you from all your sins: bin whom we have redemption, the remission of our sins in his blood. Now the Scripture no where intimateth a favour of free grace in purging us from sins, by halves or quarters, as if some were half washen, half delivered from the wrath to come; and half unwashen, and half under wrath. 2. There is no condemnation to a soul once in Christ, and justified, Rom. 8.1. then there can be no re-acceptation, or second receiving of a soul into the state of a justified person, from the state of an ungodly man, as if he had fallen from the former state, and there can be no second deliverance from eternal wrath, to be inflicted for a new committed sin.
WEe make no question but we are at once justified, and not by degrees and succession, as wee are sanctified, because justification is a foreinsecall, and Law-change, or judiciall sentence of God, absolving the person of the sinner from all punishment, or obligation to punishment due to him for sinnes, past, present, and to come, according to the rule of revenging, and Law-persuing justice, and that for the alone righteousnesse of the surety Christ, freely imputed, and by faith received of him,