One more Tobias Crisp question

[cupotea]

From the already closed thread:

http://www.puritanboard.com/f29/tobias-crisp-Christ-alone-exalted-4-vols-12377/

Rev.Adam King informed us:

I would highly recommend the book "A Faire and Easie Way to Heaven: Covenant Theology and Antinomianism in Early Massachusetts" by William KB Stoever. He notes Crisp many times in this book and it seems to be well documented.

In it is provided a helpful "thumbnail" of 17th century antinomianism. "Antinomians were held to maintain that the consciences of believers are not bound by the law and that God sees no sin in Christians; that assurance once obtained is not to be doubed of; that justification is before faith and that faith is a discovery of justification; and that sanctification is no evidence of justification." (p.232 n.11).

And J.I.Packer in his Arminianisms
Packer - Arminianisms
Footnote 30 says

"n Crisp, cf. Allison, op. cit., pp. 171f. Crisp affirmed justification before faith through Christ's substitutionary death for us, and spoke Lutherishly of Christ becoming by imputation a great sinner. His idea of faith as knowledge of Christ's death for me, the sinner, was Lutherish too. "

I have one question, in Packer's words, "Crisp affirmed justification before faith through Christ's substitutionary death for us", does he mean that
Crisp believed that due to Christ's substitutionary death for us, our justification comes before our faith? Does ist fit into Adam's quote of
"that justification is before faith and that faith is a discovery of justification"?

Thanks for clarification.

 

[Jimmy the Greek]

Packer's quote agrees the point made in Adam's quote, that Crisp saw justification as preceding faith.