CHAP. XVIII. That we are not justified untill we beleeve.
WEe hold against Antinomians that we are never justi∣fied till we beleeve. They say a 1.1 from eternity we were justified; or b 1.2 from the time that the Messiah dyed, all sins were finished, and wee justified, or from our birrh. But justi∣fication in Gods decree and purpose from eternity, is no more justification then Creation, sanctification, glorification, the cru∣cifying of Christ, and all things that fall out in time; for all these were in the eternall purpose of God. 2. In justifica∣tion, our sinnes are, in their guilt, fully done away, as a c 1.3 thick cloud, cast d 1.4 in the bottome of the sea, e 1.5 remembred no more, f 1.6 sought for, and not found; if all this was done from eternity, beleevers were never sinners, never children of wrath, really, as Paul g 1.7 saith; never dead in sinnes, never h 1.8 enemies to God, or ungodly; they were onely such in a mentall consideration. 3. It is true, God loved his chosen ones from eternitie to salvation; and i 1.9 from that love, sent his Sonne k 1.10 to die, to l 1.11 wash, justifie, and sanctifie them; but this is not their justification, but a fruit of justification in time. When our time is the time of love, m 1.12 and wee are dy∣ing in our owne bloud, he washeth us n 1.13. 4. Wee behoved to beleeve from eternity, for wee are justified by o 1.14 Faith. 5. All the justified have a reall union and interest in Christ, to live p 1.15 by faith, and wait on God in all their troubles by faith; but though their be an union of love in Gods minde