A44348:200
An exposition of the principles of religion by Tho. Hooker.
London: printed for R. Dawlman, 1645
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. A persuasion that they shall be fulfilled to us.
2. A perswasion that they shall be fulfilled to us.
Q. What is Justification?
Q. What is Iustification?
A. When a believing sinner is accounted just in Gods sight, through Christ, according to the Law.
A. When a beleeving sinner is accounted just in Gods sight, through Christ, according to the Law.
Q. Why say you accounted?
A. Because Justification puts nothing into us, nor finds nothing in us.
A. Because Justification puts nothing into us, nor findes nothing in us.
Q. Doth God justify wicked men as they are in themselves?
Q. Doth God justifie wicked men as they are in themselves?
A. God provided another to be their surety, for whose sake he accepts them.
Q. Can one mans wisdom, understanding and holiness be accounted to another?
Q. Can one mans wisedome, understanding and holinesse be accounted to another?
A. Yes, if one mans offence be imputed to another, then may one mans righteousness; but Adams sin was imputed to us, Rom. 5. therefore Christs Righteousness may be accounted ours. If the Law be, that the surety may be punished for the debt as well as the debtor, then may the sureties satisfaction be accounted to the debtor, both because the surety and the debtor took upon them the same thing, and subjected themselves to the same condition.
A. Yes, if one mans offence be imputed to another, then may one mans righteousnesse; but Adams sinne was imputed to us, Rom. 5. therefore Christs Righteousnesse may be accounted ours. If the Law be, that the surety may be punished for the debt as well as the debtor, then may the sureties satisfaction be accounted to the debtor, both because the surety and the debtor tooke upon them the same thing, and subjected themselves to the same condition.
Q. What do we learn out of these words, according to the Law?
Q. What doe we learn out of these words, according to the Law?
