A glass of justification, or The vvork of faith with povver. Wherein the apostles doctrine touching justification without the deeds of the law, is opened; and the sence in which gospel-obedience, as well as faith, is necessary to justification, is stated. Wherein also the nature of that dead faith is detected, by which multitudes that hope for salvation are (as is to be feared) deceived; and the true nature and distinguishing properties of the faith of Gods elect, is handled. Finally, the doctrine of the imputation of faith for righteousness is herein also briefly discussed; and the great wisdom and folly of men about the proof of their faith, touched ... By William Allen, a poor servant to the Lord Jesus.

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A glass of justification, or The vvork of faith with povver. Wherein the apostles doctrine touching justification without the deeds of the law, is opened; and the sence in which gospel-obedience, as well as faith, is necessary to justification, is stated. Wherein also the nature of that dead faith is detected, by which multitudes that hope for salvation are (as is to be feared) deceived; and the true nature and distinguishing properties of the faith of Gods elect, is handled. Finally, the doctrine of the imputation of faith for righteousness is herein also briefly discussed; and the great wisdom and folly of men about the proof of their faith, touched ... By William Allen, a poor servant to the Lord Jesus.

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Allen, William, d. 1686.

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London :: printed by G. Dawson, for Francis Smith, and are to be sold at his shop, in Flying Horse Court in Fleetstreet, near Chancery-Lane end,

1658.

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Subject terms

Justification -- Early works to 1800.

Election (Theology) -- Early works to 1800.

Faith -- Early works to 1800.

Obedience -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• To that small Remnant of Christs Lit∣tle Flock which are wont to wait on him in his PUBLICK WORSHIP, at their place of Assembly in Loathbury, London. The Author truly desireth a being filled with all the fulness of God: As he does also to all the Churches of like constitution, for whose use this Address is secondarily intended.
• THE EPISTLE TO THE READER.
• A Table of the principal Matters touched or hand∣led in the precedent Epistle, and subsequent Treatise.
• ERRATA.
• A Glass of Justification. Wherein the Apostles Doctrine touching JUSTIFI∣CATION without the DEEDS of the LAW is opened; and the sence in which Gospel-Obedience is abso∣lutely necessary to Justification, is stated.
  • CHAP. I. Containing an Introduction to the following Treatise.
  • CHAP. II. Shewing of what sort or kind of Works those are which Paul in his Epistles excludes in the point of Mans justification before God.
  • CHAP. III. Shewing how Love, Iustice, and Mercy, though comman∣ded both in Law and Gospel, are to he rejected in the Iewish sense, and yet imbraced in the Christians, as necessary unto Iustification. Shewing also in what sence Works are necessary unto Iustification.
  • CHAP. IV. Setting forth the object of justifying Faith, and shew∣ing the beleeving in whom, and the beleeving of what it is, that will be counted for Righteousnesse.
  • CHAP. V. Shewing that that Faith which consists onely in assenting unto the truth of that report which the Gospel makes touching Christ his being the Son of God, and of his coming into the World to save Sinners by dying for them, will not availe to Iustification and Sal∣vation, as a Gospel-Faith of the right kind will do.
  • CHAP. VI. Further discovering that neither the act of Relyance or Dependence upon God or Christ for Salvation, with∣out the concurrence of a loving and loyal adhesion to him, will avail to Salvation.
  • CHAP. VII. Shewing that that Belief unto which the Promise is made, though indefinitely exprest, is to be understood of Belief of a special kinde: and that it is no waies safe to notion it in the lowest, narrowest, and meanest sence of the Word, but to frame our notion of it ac∣cording to that result which the Scriptures compared do give of it: under which notion of it, it will be hard for any man to retain a confidence of Salvation, without an holy conversation.
  • CHAP. VIII. Shewing that the Faith which shall justifie as Abra∣hams did, is a Faith that walks in the steps of the Faith of Abraham. Shewing also what those steps were, and that Abraham was justified by the latter of them as well as the former; and that the justification of his spiritual seed stands upon the same terms: contrary to the Antinomian Doctrine, and Libertine Principles.
  • CHAP. IX. Shewing that it hath been the common and universal Property of the Faith of Gods Elect, both in former and latter Ages of the World, as well to depend upon (and so to be ordered by) the counsels, commands, and directions of God touching the way to life, as upon his grace, power, and promise, for life it self: and that it is the highest point of Wisdom in men so to do. And that mens mistrust of the suparlative goodness of Gods wayes, counsels, and commands, and putting more confidence in their own, proceeds from their mistrust of his power, wisdom, or good-will to∣wards them, in relation to their happiness.
  • CHAP. X. Shewing, That the power of Gods grace, the strength and fulness that is in Christ, the presence, po∣wer, and influence of the Spirit, being that by which the new and spiritual Life in a Christi∣an is maintained, it is the Property of true Faith to depend upon the Lord for these. And herein is an excellent difference to be seen be∣tween the Living and the dead Faith. The want of this, the cause of manies Apostacie. A great defect in this, the cause of manies dry∣ness and barrenness in grace.
  • CHAP. XI. Shewing how Faith worketh by Love, both to God and Men.
  • CHAP. XII. Shewing that Faith is counted for Righteousnesse, both as it entitles men to the justifying virtue of Christs Blood, and as it puts them under the protection and promise of the Gospel, as it is a fulfilling of it. And so discovers the opinion of Mens being justified before Beleeving, and of being justified by belee∣ving only in the Court of Mans Conscience, to be unsound.
  • CHAP. XIII. Containing an Exhortation by way of vse, for Men to behold themselves in this Glass of Iustification, and by the help of the precedent Discourse, to prove the goodness or badness of their title to life. And shew∣ing the ill abode of negligence, and the real advan∣tage, of care and diligence herein: and what must be done to obtain a good testimony from Conscience as Iudge Delegate under Christ, touching the goodness of mens spiritual condition in the eye of the Gospel, and in the sight of God.