A53686:669
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
The doctrine of justification by faith through the imputation of the righteousness of Christ, explained, confirmed, & vindicated by John Owen ...
London: printed for R. Boulter, 1677
Chapter 11: The nature of the Obedience that God requireth of us. The Eternal obligation of the Law…
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.
CHAP. XI. The nature of the Obedience that God requireth of us. The Eternal obligation of the Law thereunto.
Our second Argument shall be taken from the nature of that Obedience or Righteousness which God requireth of us, that we may be accepted of him and approved by him. This being a large subject if fully to be handled, I shall reduce what is of our present concernment in it, unto some special Heads or Observations.
OUr second Argument shall be taken from the nature of that Obedience or Righteousness which God requireth of us, that we may be accepted of him and approved by him. This being a large subject if fully to be handled, I shall reduce what is of our present concernment in it, unto some special Heads or Observations.
1. God being a most perfect, and therefore a most free Agent, all his actings towards mankind, all his dealings with them, all his Constitutions and Laws concerning them, are to be resolved into his own Sovereign will and pleasure. No other reason can be given of the Original, of the whole System of them. This the Scripture testifieth unto, Psal. 115.3.135.6. Prov. 16.4. Ephes. 1.9, 11. Rev. 4.11. The being, existence, and natural circumstances of all Creatures, being an effect of the free Counsel and pleasure of God, all that belongs unto them must be ultimately resolved thereinto.