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The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easy draught of the Christian…The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian…
The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easy draught of the Christian catechism in LII lectures on chosen texts of Scripture, for each Lords-day of the year, learnedly and perspicuously illustrated with doctrines, reasons, and uses / by that reverend and worthy labourer in the Lord's vineyard, William Ames ...The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian catechisme in LII lectures on chosen texts of Scripture, for each Lords-day of the year, learnedly and perspicuously illustrated with doctrines, reasons, and uses / by that reverend and worthy laborer in the Lord's vineyard, William Ames ...
London: printed by T. Mabb for Thomas Davies, 1659
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Now the obedience of Christ in respect of our justification, hath 1. the place of a meriting cause, which obtains it for us, because it was the means that Gods justice required to be performed to him, before his grace could justify us. 2▪ It hath the place of the formal cause, in as much as it is so accepted and taken for ours, being given us by free-gift, and so made ours indeed, as that we are looked on by God, as truly clothed with it: when he pronounces the sentence of our justification: whence that phrase of the Apostle is, Not having mine own righteousness, but that which is Christs, Phil. 3. 9.
Now the obedience of Christ in respect of our justification, hath 1. the place of a meriting cause, which obtains it for us, because it was the means that Gods justice required to be performed to him, before his grace could justify us. 2▪ It hath the place of the formal cause, in as much as it is so accepted and taken for ours, being given us by free-gift, and so made ours indeed, as that we are lookt on by God, as truly clothed with it: when he pronounces the sentence of our justification: whence that phrase of the Apostle is, Not having mine own righteousnesse, but that which is Christs, Phil. 3. 9.
Reas. 1. Is, because this is most agreeable both to the justice and mercy of God, jointly: For if our justification had stood in the bare remission of sin, without the imputation of a sufficient righteousness, or obedience for satisfaction to justice, then only Gods mercy and favour had had place in this business, no regard being had of the justice of God, that satisfaction might be made.
Reas. 1. Is, because this is most agreeable both to the justice and mercy of God, joyntly: For if our justification had stood in the bare remission of sin, without the imputation of a sufficient righteousness, or obedience for satisfaction to justice, then onely Gods mercy and favour had had place in this businesse, no regard being had of the justice of God, that satisfaction might be made.