The sound believer, or, A treatise of evangelical conversion discovering the work of Christs…The sound beleever, or, A treatise of evangelicall conversion discovering the work of Christs…

Let me open the particulars herein briefly in several queries.

Let me open the particulars herein briefly in severall queries.

¹What it is in general, to justify.

¹What it is in generall, to justifie.

1. 1Quest. 1

¹Tis to pass sentence of absolution, to pronounce a sinner righteous; tis Gods pardon, remission of sins; this appears from the opposition mentioned it stands in unto condemnation, as a Judge pardons a man when he saith he shall live; or as a man manifestly forgives another when he gives him a promise, or a bill of discharge: so that (note this by the way that) our Justification is not Gods eternal purpose to forgive, but it is Gods sentence published, a sinner is justified intentionally in election, but not actually till this sentence be past and published; The difficulty only here is, where this sentence is pronounced; for answer where of note, that there is but a double Court wherein tis passed: 1. Publicly in the Court of Heaven, or in the Court-rolls of the Word; (for there is no other Court of Heaven where God speaks, but this.) 2. Privately, in the Court of Conscience. By the first we are justified indeed from personal guilt; by the second we feel our selves justified by the removal of conscience guilt. The first is expressly mentioned, Act. 10.43