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The fountain opened, or, The great gospel privilege of having Christ exhibited to sinful…The fountain opened, or, The great gospel priviledge of having Christ exhibited to sinfull…
The fountain opened, or, The great gospel privilege of having Christ exhibited to sinful men wherein also is proved that there shall be a national calling of the Jews from Zech. XIII. I. / by Samuel Willard ...The fountain opened, or, The great gospel priviledge of having Christ exhibited to sinfull men wherein also is proved that there shall be a national calling of the Jews from Zech. XIII. I. / by Samuel Willard ...
printed by B. Green for Samuel Sewall Junior, 1700
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.
2. The question is not with respect to our Justi•ation before God. The Justification of fallen •an hath not the least regard to any personal Obedience of theirs, as having an influence Causal into it; and consequently it can •ave no respect to any kind of perfection of • Gospel Justification cometh altogether by •e Imputation of the Righteousness of another • us; viz. that of Christ, which was for that •nd provided by God for us, and is called his ⟨p. 176⟩Righteousness, Phil. 3 9. The Righteousness that is of God by faith; and so it is not ours Personal or Inherent, but by acceptation for us. It is cal•ed the Justification of a Sinner, or of the Ungodly, Rom. 4. 5. And therefore must needs have a respect to that Law in relation whereto the man is a Sinner; which is the Moral Law, under obligation whereto all men do stand as they derive from the first Adam to whom it was given for himself and his posterity; and hence it must have a Righteousness to answer it, every way as perfect as that Law required, which no fallen man is able in himself to pay; nor can any offer it for him, but Christ only. They wholly mistake the very nature of Gospel Justification, who allow any Righteousness short of that, to have any concernment in it; and since by the fall man is become Guilty, and so subjected to the Curse of the Law, if he had a personal Righteousness, as broad as that which the Law required of m•n in integrity, yet that would not satisfy for the removal of his Guilt, without which he cannot be Justified. So that whether it be perfect or imperfect, it signifies nothing here▪
2. The question is not with respect to our Justi•ation before God. The Justification of fallen an hath not the least regard to any persoal Obedience of theirs, as having an influnce Causall into it; and consequently it can ave no respect to any kind of perfection of Gospel Justification cometh altogether by e Imputation of the Righteousness of another us; viz. that of Christ, which was for that nd provided by God for us, and is called his