Vindiciæ justificationis gratuitæ = Justification without conditions, or, The free justification of a sinner : explained, confirmed, and vindicated, from the exceptions, objections, and seeming absurdities, which are cast upon it, by the assertors of conditional justification : more especially from the attempts of Mr. B. Woodbridge in his sermon, entituled (Justification by faith), of Mr. Cranford in his Epistle to the reader, and of Mr. Baxter in some passages, which relate to the same matter : wherein also, the absoluteness of the New Covenant is proved, and the arguments against it, are disproved / by W. Eyre ...

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Author:	Eyre, William, 1612 or 13-1670.
Title:	Vindiciæ justificationis gratuitæ = Justification without conditions, or, The free justification of a sinner : explained, confirmed, and vindicated, from the exceptions, objections, and seeming absurdities, which are cast upon it, by the assertors of conditional justification : more especially from the attempts of Mr. B. Woodbridge in his sermon, entituled (Justification by faith), of Mr. Cranford in his Epistle to the reader, and of Mr. Baxter in some passages, which relate to the same matter : wherein also, the absoluteness of the New Covenant is proved, and the arguments against it, are disproved / by W. Eyre ...
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Subject terms:	Woodbridge, Benjamin, 1622-1684. -- Justification by faith, or, A confutation of that antinomian error that justification is before faith. Cranford, James, d. 1657. Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. -- Aphorismes of justification. Justification.
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TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE PARLIAMENT OF THE Commonwealth OF ENGLAND.

TO My Deare Flock in the City of NEVV-SARUM, unto which, God, and their own Choise, have made me an Over-seer.

TO THE Christian Reader.

CHAP. I. Shewing the occasion of this Discourse, and the rise of the Controversie which is here debated.

CHAP. II. A Digression, concerning the proposing of Questions, and reasoning with Ministers publickly about the Mat∣ter of their Sermons.

CHAP. III. Being a Surveigh of Mr. Woodbridges Title Page, wherein the Opinion he opposeth, is cleared from the Aspersion of Antinomianism.

CHAP. IV. Containing some Animadversions upon Mr. Cranfords Epistle to the Reader.

CHAP. V. Wherein Mr. Woodbridges Introduction, Text, Do∣ctrine, and Proofs, are briefly considered.

CHAP. VI. The several Opinions of Divines, touching the mean∣ing of this Position, [A man is justified by Faith.]

CHAP. VII. Wherein the Question about the time of our Justification is distinctly stated; and these two Propositions [A man is justified before Faith] and [A man is justified by Faith] reconciled.

CHAP. VIII. Wherein Mr. Woodbridges Exceptions against our saying, [That Faith, or the act of believing, doth justi∣fie no otherwise, then as it reveals, and evidenceth our Justification] are Answered.

CHAP. IX. That Faith doth not justifie, as a condition required on our part to qualifie us for Justification.

CHAP. X. Wherein Mr. Woodbridges first Argument against Justification before Faith, taken from the Nature of Justification, is answered.

CHAP. XI. Wherein Mr. Woodbridges Second Argument against Justification before Faith, taken from our state by nature, is answered.

CHAP. XII. Wherein Mr. Woodbridges third, fourth, and fifth Arguments are answered.

CHAP. XIII. Wherein Mr. Woodbridges Answers to those Scriptures which hold forth [An immediate actual reconcilia∣tion of sinners to God, upon the death of Christ, without the intervention of Faith] are exa∣mined.

CHAP. XIV. Of the Covenant between the Father and the Son, con∣cerning the immediate effects of Christs death.

CHAP. XV. Wherein Mr. Woodbridges Replyes to the second Objecti∣on (as he cals it) concerning our being Justified in Christ as a common person, are examined.

CHAP. XVI. Of Mr. Woodbridges Answer to the third Objection, which he hath framed concerning our being in Co∣venant with God before beleiving.

CHAP. XVII. Concerning the Covenant, wherein Faith is promised, and by vertue whereof it is given to us.

CHAP. XVIII. Wherein Mr. Woodbridges Exposition of the New Covenant, (mentioned Jere. 31.33. and in other pla∣ces) is further examined.

CHAP. XIX. Wherein is shewn, That in the New Covenant there are no conditions required of us, to invest us with a Right and Title, to the blessings of it.

CHAP. XX. Wherein Mr. Woodbridges chief Argument against the Absoluteness of the New Covenant, is answered; and this Position [That God is the God of his people, before they do believe and repent] rescued from his contradictions.

CHAP. XXI. Wherein the remaining Arguments which Mr. Wood∣bridge hath brought to prove, That the New Cove∣nant is not an absolute Promise, and that the Elect have no right to the Covenant before they believe, are answered.

The Printers Postscript.