A brief discourse of justification. Wherein this doctrine is plainly laid down according to…

If any shall here further enquire, at what time this Righteousness of Christ is accepted for us, and imputed to us for our Justification? I Answer; That if we speak of what is past in Heaven, and there transacted between God the Father, and God the Son upon the account of all his Elect; it is then very certain, that there was an act past for this in the days of eternity, in the Covenant of Redemption, where, as God gave unto the Son the names of all his chosen ones, for ⟨p. 70⟩whom he undertook to merit life and salvation, so they were appointed to obtain pardon and eternal life through this merit of his; and therefore Christ calls them those whom his Father had given to him before the world was, i. e. as to their Redeemer There was also another time, viz. at Christs Resurrection, when there was a solemn act of Justification past for, or in the behalf of all these when our great High Priest had, on the day of Atonement, born the names of his Israel upon his shoulders, and breast plate before God: and made expiation for them with […] blood, he received a discharge of all their debts, and they were set free unto him; for he rose to our Justification, Rom. 4. 25. But still this notwithstanding, there is yet a time wherein Gods Elect, lying in sin, and living out from God, and remaining in a state of natural corruption, have not the application of this grace made unto them personally, but they remain children of wrath, Eph. 2. 3. i.e. the curse is still lying upon them, they are not actually brought under the condition of the Covenant of Grace; Paul therefore at verse 12. speaking of the time preceding their conversion, declares concerning the believing Ephesians, that at that time they were without Christ, being aliens from the common ⟨p. 71⟩wealth of Israel, and strangers from the Covenants of Promise, having no hope, and without God in the world; and that time was after that Christ was risen, for it was the time when the Apostles came to Preach the Gospel to them, which was many years after Christs Resurrection:

If any shall here further enquire, at what time this Righteousness of Christ is accepted for us, and imputed to us for our Justification? I Answer; That if we speak of what is past in Heaven, and there transacted between God the Father, and God the Son upon the account of all his Elect; it is then very certain, that there was an act past for this in the days of eternity, in the Covenant of Redemption, where, as God gave unto the Son the names of all his chosen ones, for