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

there was a great deal of iniquity in Jacob, and perverseness in Israel at this time when God uttered this of them, otherwise they would not have been so soon led aside, and drawn away by the temptation to commit lewdness with the Midianitish Women, and to offer their Sacrifices unto […]: yea the same Apostle John, in this very Epistle tells us, Chap. 1. 8. that if we say we are without sin, we lie, and the truth is not in […]; and in Chap 2. beginning he gives encouragement and direction to Believers that do […] any time, to go to, and wait upon the […]; so that the main and full resolution of this case, of enquiry, how the children of God may be truly said to be without sin, is by reducing it unto this head of Justification. God▪ looks upon his Israel, even all those that are regenerate, not as in themselves, but as they are in Jesus Christ; and because he who was their Surety was altogether without sin, he knew none, either as to pollution by it, or commission of it; hence they are also accounted in him to have no sin; though Sin considered in its own nature, be sin still, and it will for ever be a truth concerning Gods best Saints here upon Earth, that they did do such things every day, as deserved death; yet Sin legally considered, ceaseth to be sin in a ⟨p. 112⟩Law account, when satisfaction is made for it, and a pardon is applied to the Sinner, upon which he becomes justified: now the law no more calls him a Sinner, but a Righteous person; and God as a Judge can no longer see Sin in him, because there is none that doth expose or lay him liable to a Sentence of condemnation.

there was a great deal of iniquity in Jacob, and perverseness in Israel at this time when God uttered this of them, otherwise they would not have been so soon led aside, and drawn away by the temptation to commit lewdness with the Midianitish Women, and to offer their Sacrifices unto 〈…〉: yea the same Apostle John, in this very Epistle tells us, Chap. 1. 8. that if we say we are without sin, we ly, and the truth is not in 〈…〉; and in Chap 2. beginning he gives encouragement and direction to Believers that do 〈…〉 any time, to go to, and wait upon the 〈…〉; so that the main and full resolution of this case, of enquiry, how the children of God may be truly said to be without sin, is by reducing it unto this head of Justification. God looks upon his Israel, even all those that are regenerate, not as in themselves, but as they are in Jesus Christ; and because he who was their Surety was altogether without sin, he knew none, either as to pollution by it, or commission of it; hence they are also accounted in him to have no sin; though Sin considered in its own nature, be sin still, and it will for ever be a truth concerning Gods best Saints here upon Earth, that they did do such things every day, as deserved death; yet Sin legally considered, ceaseth to be sin in a