A Body of Practical Divinity

Resp. 1. Justification. In Justification there is two things; 1. Guilt is remitted, 2. Righteousness is imputed, Jer. 23.6. The Lord our Righteousness. We are reputed not only Righteous, as the Angels, but as Christ, having his Robes put upon us, 2 Cor. 5.21. But whence is it that we are justified? 'Tis from Christ's Intercession, Rom. 8.33, 34. Lord, saith Christ, these are the Persons I have died for, look upon them as if they had not sinned, and repute them Righteous.

Resp. 1. Iustification. In Justification there is two things; 1. Guilt is remitted, 2. Righteousness is imputed, Ier. 23.6. The Lord our Righteousness. We are reputed not only Righteous, as the Angels, but as Christ, having his Robes put upon us, 2 Cor. 5.21. But whence is it that we are justified? 'Tis from Christ's Intercession, Rom. 8.33, 34. Lord, saith Christ, these are the Persons I have died for, look upon them as if they had not sinned, and repute them Righteous.

2d Fruit. The Unction of the Spirit, 1 John 2.20. Ye have an Unction from the holy one. This Unction or Anointing is nothing else but the Work of Sanctification in the heart, whereby the Spirit makes us partake of the Divine Nature, 2 Pet. 1.4. Such as speak of the Philosophers Stone, suppose it to have such a Property that when it toucheth the Metal, it turns it into Gold; such a Property hath the Spirit of God upon the Soul, when it toucheth the Soul, it puts into it a Divine Nature, it makes it to be holy, and to resemble God. This sanctifying work of the Spirit, is the fruit of Christ's Intercession,