Elementary, my dear Watson
Dr. John Watson (not of Sherlock Holmes fame, but a very real and respected medical doctor in the 19th century who was also an early Primitive Baptist minister), wrote these words about justification in The Old Baptist Test (pages 92-93)[1]: “The remarks made in the introduction to the subject of eternal union between God and his people, apply with equal force to that of justification; which is eternal in the same sense that the union of Christ and his church is, and to bring forward the scriptures and arguments to prove it would be to repeat, the most in principle at least, that has been advanced on the subject of the Scriptural kinds of union between the Lord and his people. Hence, we will leave our reader to reflect on the subject, with this one remark, that justification on the part of God, according as he entertained from everlasting the Divine plan of salvation in his foreknowledge, purpose, covenant, &c., is eternal, and is one of those spiritual blessings, wherew...
