A65285:1130
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
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2. The Scripture confines Justification to those who believe and repent, Acts 3.19. Repent, that your sins may be blotted out. Therefore their sins were uncancelled and their Persons unjustified, till they did repent: though God doth not justify us for our Repentance, yet not without it. The Antinomians erroneously hold, That we are justified from Eternity. This Doctrine is a Key which opens the Door to all Licentiousness; what sins do they care they commit, so long as they hold they are ab Aeterno, justified whether they repent or no.
2. The Scripture confines Iustification to those who believe and repent, Acts 3.19. Repent, that your sins may be blotted out. Therefore their sins were uncanciled and their Persons unjustified, till they did repent: though God doth not justifie us for our Repentance, yet not without it. The Antinomians erroniously hold, That we are justified from Eternity. This Doctrine is a Key which opens the Door to all Licentiousness; what sins do they care they commit, so long as they hold they are ab Aeterno, justified whether they repent or no.
Before I come to the Uses, I shall lay down four Maxims or Positions about Justification:
Before I come to the Uses, I shall lay down four Maxims or Positions about Iustification:
Position 1. That Justification confers a real benefit upon the Person justified. The acquitting and discharging the Debtor by Virtue of the Satisfaction made by the Surety, is a real Benefit to the Debtor: A Robe of Righteousness, and a Crown of Righteousness are real Benefits.