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…

What is the mean by which the Father doth thus justify?¹

What is the meane by which the Father doth thus justifie?¹

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Tis for the satisfaction or by the price of the redemption of Christ,¹ Rom. 3.25. Rom. 5.10. Eph. 1.7. for Mercy would, but Justice could not forgive, without satisfaction for the wrong done; Hence Christ satisfies, that Grace and mercy might have their full scope of forgiving. So that, neither works before conversion, which are but glistering sins, Rom. 1.18. nor works of grace in us after conversion, can be causes of our Justification: for Abraham when he was justified and sanctified, yet had not whereof to boast, but believed in him that justified the ungodly, Rom. 4.5. And the Apostle Paul saith expressly, We that believe have believed, that we might be justified, Gal. 2.16. tis therefore the price of Christs redemption which doth procure our justification. But understand this aright, for this price is not applied to ⟨p. 258⟩each particular man as the common price, redeeming all, (for then every Believer should be accounted a saviour, and redeemer of all) but as the price of those souls in particular, to whom it is specially intended, and particularly applied. Christs righteousness is sufficient to justify all to whom it is imputed, but it is no further imputed then to the attaining the end of imputation, viz. to justify and save me in particular, not to make me a head of the Church or a common Saviour: it argues a man weakly principled, that denies the necessity of Christs satisfaction to our Justification, because forsooth every Believer should then be a Redeemer.