A65285:1112
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Resp. It is verbum forense, a word borrowed from Law-courts, wherein a Person arraigned is pronounced Righteous, and is openly absolved in the Court. Thus God in justifying a Person, pronounceth him to be Righteous, and looks upon him as if he had not sinned.
Quest. What is the Ground of Justification?
Quest. What is the Ground of Iustification?
Resp. The Causa, [Greek or Hebrew], the inward impellent Motive or Ground of Justification is the Free-grace of God. So in the Text, Justified freely by his grace. Which Ambrose expounds, Not of the Grace wrought within us, but the Free-grace of God. The first Wheel that sets all the rest a running, is the Love and Favour of God. Being justified by his Grace; as a King freely Pardons a Delinquent. Justification is a Mercy spun out of the Bowels of Free-grace. God doth not justify us because we are worthy, but by justifying us makes us worthy.
Resp. The Causa, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the inward impellent Motive or Ground of Iustification is the Free-grace of God. So in the Text, Iustified freely by his grace. Which Ambrose expounds, Not of the Grace wrought within us, but the Free-grace of God. The first Wheel that sets all the rest a running, is the Love and Favour of God. Being justified by his Grace; as a King freely Pardons a Delinquent. Iustification is a Mercy spun out of the Bowels of Free-grace. God doth not justifie us because we are worthy, but by justifying us makes us worthy.