A65285:1131
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.
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.
Position 1. That Iustification confers a real benefit upon the Person justified. The acquitting and discharging the Debtor by Vertue 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.
Position 2. All Believers are alike justified: Justificatio non recipit magis & minus: Though there are Degrees in Grace, yet not in Justification; one is not justified more than another. The weakest Believer is as perfectly justified, as the strongest: Mary Magdalen is as much justified as the Virgin Mary. This may be Cordial-water to a weak Believer. Though thou hast but a Dram of Faith, thou art as truly justified as he who is of the highest stature in Christ.
Position 2. All Believers are alike justified: Iustificatio non recipit magis & minus: Though there are Degrees in Grace, yet not in Iustification; one is not justified more than another. The weakest Believer is as perfectly justified, as the strongest: Mary Magdalen is as much justified as the Virgin Mary. This may be Cordial-water to a weak Believer. Though thou hast but a Dram of Faith, thou art as truly justified as he who is of the highest stature in Christ.