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…

And every one of these necessarily presupposeth the former. Nor can Antinomians free themselves,¹ or any with them, of the pretended inconvenience, they would put on us, to wit, that we must believe, before we be actually joined to Christ, in justification; for they will have us justified, and so please God, and actually enjoy the fruit of election, which is justification, Rom. 8.29. before we believe, that is, before we feel, and to our own sense know, that we are justified. Now this feeling and knowledge, is an intellectual act of the life of God, and the habit of an infused new heart, of regeneration, as well as our justifying Faith, and so we yet exercise an act of the life of Christ, which must be an act of saving grace, actus secundus, or a life-operation flowing from the infused habit of sanctification, before we be justified, in the sense, that Scripture speaketh of justification, which saith all alongs, We are justified by faith. God justifieth the man that believes in him that justifieth the ungodly. Now sure the Lord giveth to us faith to believe justification, before he justify, in the sense, that Paul speaketh of justification. For the Lord giveth the Spirit of sanctification, of grace, of adoption, of faith, &c. for all these are vital and supernatural acts of the same Spirit, to these that have not the Spirit at first, to the uncircumcised in heart, Deut. 30.6. to the wilderness and dry ground, Isaiah. 44. vers. 3. to these who pollute his name among the heathen, and have stony and rocky hearts, Ezech. 36.21, 26. to these ⟨p. 113⟩that are a dying, polluted in their own blood, Ezech. 16.6, 8. to those that are dead in sins and trespasses, Ephes. 2.1, 2, 3, 4, 5. and this the Lord doth, for Jesus Christs sake freely,