A85315:208
Stablishing against shaking
Stablishing against shaking: or, A discovery of the Prince of Darkness (scarcely) transformed into an angel of light, powerfully now working in the deluded people called, Quakers: with a sober answer to their railings against ministers for receiving maintenance from their people. Being the substance of one sermon preached Feb. 17. 1655. at Shalford in Essex. / By Giles Firmin (pastor of the church there) upon occasion of the Quakers troubling those parts.Stablishing against shaking: or, A discovery of the Prince of Darknesse (scarcely) transformed into an angel of light, powerfully now working in the deluded people called, Quakers: with a sober answer to their railings against ministers for receiving maintenance from their people. Being the substance of one sermon preached Feb. 17. 1655. at Shalford in Essex. / By Giles Firmin (pastour of the church there) upon occasion of the Quakers troubling those parts.
London: printed by J.G. for Nathanael Webb, 1656
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I deny not, but we are justified, by the righteousness, satisfaction of Christ without us, as opposed to Inherency in us. But I utterly deny that God ever imputes that righteousness to us, but withal he works inherent righteousness in us, so as no man ⟨p. 35⟩can be in a state of Justification, or shall ever see God, who hath not this inherent work of holiness in him, Heb. 12.14.
I deny not, but we are justified, by the righteousnesse, satisfaction of Christ without us, as opposed to Inherency in us. But I utterly deny that God ever imputes that righteousnesse to us, but withall he works inherent righteousnesse in us, so as no man ⟨p. 35⟩can be in a state of Justification, or shall ever see God, who hath not this inherent work of holinesse in him, Heb. 12.14.
I deny also, that a person whom the Lord actually justifieth is an ungodly person; in that instant its true, he is ungodly, if you compare him with the Covenant of works, he is a transgressor of it, which is the scope of the Apostle, in the Rom. 3.4. 1To cut all men off from seeking life in that Covenant, and to bring them to the righteousness of Christ: but look on him in reference to the Covenant of grace, he is now a believer; or else he cannot be justified, and such a believer as hath received Christ to Union, and now trusts to Christ for Communion of benefits, whereof justification is one. He that prates of his justification before this Faith, he doth but prate of that which he shall never find. That absurd notion of faith justifying only Declarative, I would have opposed, had this place been convenient.