"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places IN CHRIST. " Eph. 1:3
"Paul tells us, that we were CHOSEN IN CHRIST before the foundation of the world; and Jude says, “PRESERVED IN CHRIST JESUS and called.” So that if we were CHOSEN IN HIM before the foundation of the world then we could not be out of him; and if we were PRESERVED IN HIM, we were not preserved out of him; and if we were CALLED IN HIM, we were not out of him when called. Therefore as we were CHOSEN IN CHRIST, PRESERVED IN CHRIST, AND CALLED IN CHRIST, THEN WE MUST BE JUSTIFIED IN CHRIST; for as all that are out of Christ are condemned before God on account of their sins; ALL THAT ARE IN CHRIST MUST BE JUSTIFIED BEFORE GOD, from every charge that can be brought against them; FOR AS OUT OF HIM WE CANNOT BE JUSTIFIED, SO IN HIM WE CANNOT BE CONDEMNED BEFORE GOD.”
Samuel Barnard (An Address to the Congregation at the New Chapel, Dagger-Lane, Kingston-Upon-Hull, in which is vindicated the Doctrine of Justification, 1790)
"IN THE LORD SHALL ALL THE SEED OF ISRAEL BE JUSTIFIED and shall glory.” Isaiah 45:25 KJV
“IN JEHOVAH ARE ALL THE SEED OF ISRAEL JUSTIFIED…” Isa. 45:25 YOUNGS LITERAL TRANSLATION
“IN THE LORD ALL DESCENDANTS OF ISRAEL WILL BE JUSTIFIED AND WILL EXULT.” BEREAN STANDARD BIBLE.
“IN THE LORD ALL THE OFFSPRING OF ISRAEL WILL BE JUSTIFIED (declared free of guilt) AND WILL GLORY [in God].” AMPLIFIED BIBLE
“ALL THE SEED OF ISRAEL SHALL BE GLORIFIED IN ME AND SHALL BE DECLARED RIGHTEOUS.” ARAMAIC BIBLE IN PLAIN ENGLISH
“ALL THE SEED OF ISRAEL SHALL BE GLORIFIED IN ME AND SHALL BE DECLARED RIGHTEOUS.” PESHITTA HOLY BIBLE TRANSLATED
“BY THE LORD SHALL THEY BE JUSTIFIED, AND IN GOD SHALL ALL THE SEED OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL BE GLORIFIED.” BRENTON SEPTUAGINT TRANSLATION
“AND THE WHOLE SEDE OF ISRAEL SHAL BE JUSTIFIED, AND PRAYSED IN YE LORDE.” COVERDALE BIBLE, 1535.
“AND THE WHOLE SEEDE OF ISRAEL SHAL BE JUSTIFIED, AND GLORY IN THE LORDE.” BISHOPS BIBLE, 1568
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
- Whether considered as a FACT or as an EXPERIENCE of the fact, Justification is “IN THE LORD” and “BY THE LORD.” Both considerations are founded upon the UNION of the Eternal Children of God with their Eternal Paternal Father; apart from which there is no spiritual existence. See point two below and the following.
- WITHOUT ETERNAL UNION WITH CHRIST, WE HAVE NO SPIRITUAL EXISTENCE.
"I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing." John 15:5
Without a union with Christ, we have no spiritual existence; and we may boldly say that we no more have a spiritual being in the mind of God independent of Christ than the branch of a tree has an independent existence out of the stem in which it grows. But you will observe, also, in this figure of the vine and the branches, how all the fruitfulness of the branch depends upon its union with the vine. Whatever life there is in the branch, it flows out of the stem; whatever strength there is in the branch, it comes from its union with the stem; whatever foliage, whatever fruit, all come still out of its union with the stem. And this is the case, whether the branch be great or small. From the stoutest limb of a tree to the smallest twig, all are in union with the stem, and all derive life and nourishment from it.
So it is in grace: not only is our very being, as sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty, connected with our union with Christ, but our well-being. All our knowledge, therefore, of heavenly mysteries, all our faith, all our hope, and all our love—in a word, all our grace, whether much or little, whether that of the babe, the child, the young man, or the father—flows out of a personal, spiritual, and experimental union with the Lord Jesus; FOR WE ARE NOTHING BUT WHAT WE ARE IN HIM, AND WE HAVE NOTHING BUT WHAT WE POSSESS BY VIRTUE OF OUR UNION WITH HIM. J.C. Philpot
- IN UNION WITH CHRIST THERE CAN BE NO CONDEMNATION.
“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.” {Rom.8:1} THUS DOTH FREE GRACE IN GOD ACCOMPLISH AND FINISH ITS WORK OF SALVATION FOR ALL HIS ELECT THROUGH CHRIST. GOD DOTH THIS WORK IN CHRIST THAT IT MIGHT BE ALL OF GRACE, and that he might take off all boasting in the creature by the Law of faith; {Rom.3:27;} all those whom he chooses from eternity to be heirs of glory, AND SO HE CHOOSES THEM IN CHRIST, {Eph.1:4,} and those whom he calleth out of nature into his grace, HE CALLETH IN CHRIST; and such as he redeems, HE REDEEMS THROUGH CHRIST and makes Christ to be redemption to them. “Of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.” {I Cor.1:30} THEM WHICH GOD JUSTIFIES AND MAKES RIGHTEOUS; HE JUSTIFIES AND MAKES RIGHTEOUS IN CHRIST. {Rom.4:25, Rom.10:3,4} So Christ is made sanctification to his people, {I Cor.1:30, Rom.8:10,} and when saints are taken up into their fullness of glory, then they reap the fullness of their UNION WITH CHRIST. {Jn.14:19, Rom.8:17} SO THAT THIS WHOLE SALVATION IS THE WORK AND GIFT OF GOD'S FREE GRACE WROUGHT IN CHRIST."
Robert Tichborne, “THE REST OF FAITH; that is, souls fixed and established in God by believing in Him through the Lord Jesus Christ.” 1657.
- THE DOCTRINE OF ETERNAL UNION STATED:
There is a special union between Christ and his elect, wherein every individual person stands particularly betrothed to him, and he stands engaged to answer every case relating to every individual member of his body. They are given to him by his Father. {Jn.17:6,9,10} They are enrolled in the eternal records of his Kingdom. {Rev.13:8, 20:15, 21:27} They were foreknown, chosen, and predestinated in Himself. {Rom.8:29,30, Eph.1:4,5} They stand in the relation of children, and he as their Father. {Is.8:18, 9:6} They sustain the character of a wife to Christ their Husband. {Jer.3:14, Eph.5:23-25} AND HE HATH BOUND HIMSELF ON THE BEHALF OF THESE OBJECTS OF HIS LOVE, IN ALL THE TIES OF SURETYSHIP AND COVENANT ENGAGEMENTS; {Ps.89:28, Is.42:6, 49:8, Heb.7:22, 8:6, 13:20;} and this he did without any compulsion or reluctantancy; but freely, with all his heart and with all his soul, he gave himself for their sins; {Gal.1:4, Tit.2:14;} and cheerfully submitted to whatsoever the righteous Law should inflict upon Him for their offenses. {Ps.40:7,8, Mt.20:28, Jn.10:15,17,18, Heb.12:2} Thus, in consequence of this spiritual union with the persons of God’s elect, and a contracted union, wherein Christ Jesus freely engaged Himself to answer for their sins; it became a righteous thing with God TO IMPUTE TO HIM ALL THEIR INIQUITIES. {Is.53:6,11, Dan.9:26, II Cor.5:21} And accordingly, the Son of God was punished with the utmost severity and sustained all the wrath of God which was due to his people for their sins; {Ps.22:14,15, Zech.13:7, I Pet.2:24, 3:18;} and through his sufferings, thus legally inflicted and faithfully sustained for the select members of his body, all the Church enjoys Peculiar, Complete, and Eternal Redemption. {Rom.3:24, Gal.3:13, Col.1:14, Heb.9:12, 10:14, I Jn.1:7}.
John Johnson EVANGELICAL TRUTHS VINDICATED, 1758
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