A65285:1139
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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Object. But doth not the Apostle James say, Abraham was justified by works?
Object. But doth not the Apostle Iames say, Abraham was justified by works?
Resp. The answer is easy, Works declare us to be righteous before Men, but they do not make us righteous before God. Works are Evidences of our Justification, not Causes. This Name only must be graven upon the Golden Plate of our High Priest Christ, The LORD our righteousness.
Resp. The answer is easie, Works declare us to be righteous before Men, but they do not make us righteous before God. Works are Evidences of our Iustification, not Causes. This Name only must be graven upon the Golden Plate of our High Priest Christ, The LORD our righteousness.
2. Use of Exhortation. Branch 1. Adore the infinite Wisdom and Goodness of God to find out such a way to justify us, by rich Grace and precious Blood. We were all involved in Guilt, none of us could plead, Not Guilty; and being Guilty we lay under a Sentence of Death; now that the Judge himself should find out a way to justify us, and the Creditor himself contrive a way to have the Debt paid, and not distress the Debtor; this may fill us with Wonder and Love. The Angels admire the Mystery of Free-grace in this new way of Justifying and Saving lost Man, 1 Pet. 1.12. and should not we who are nearly concerned in it, and on whom the Benefit is devolved, cry out with the Apostle, [Greek or Hebrew], O the depth of the riches both of the Wisdom and Knowledge of God! &c.
2. Use of Exhortation. Branch 1. Adore the infinite Wisdom and Goodness of God to find out such a way to justify us, by rich Grace and precious Bloud. We were all involved in Guilt, none of us could plead, Not Guilty; and being Guilty we lay under a Sentence of Death; now that the Judge himself should find out a way to justify us, and the Creditor himself contrive a way to have the Debt paid, and not distress the Debtor; this may fill us with Wonder and Love. The Angels admire the Mystery of Free-grace in this new way of Justifying and Saving lost Man,