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A brief discourse of justification. Wherein this doctrine is plainly laid down according to…
A brief discourse of justification. Wherein this doctrine is plainly laid down according to the Scriptures. : As it was delivered in several sermons on this subject. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Ten lines of quotations]
Boston: printed by S for Samuel Phillips, 1686
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2. There are two things required to the perfect Justification of a sinner, viz. There must be a remission of the guilt of his sins, and there must be the reputation of him as just before God: for it is before intimated, that Justification absolves a person from guilt, and declares him righteous, and that according to the Law: and these two are inseparable, as being essential parts of Justification; and there is reason for it, because by Gods Law, no man can be declared free from guilt, except ⟨p. 40⟩he be found perfectly righteous, and that because it necessarily involves a man in gui•• not to be so: For there is a guilt in omission […] w•ll as in commission; such are therefore pronounced accursed, Gal. 3.10. Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things that are written in the Book of the Law to do them.
2. There are two things required to the perfect Justification of a sinner, viz. There must be a remission of the guilt of his sins, and there must be the reputation of him as just before God: for it is before intimated, that Justification absolves a person from guilt, and declares him righteous, and that according to the Law: and these two are inseparable, as being essential parts of Justification; and there is reason for it, because by Gods Law, no man can be declared free from guilt, except ⟨p. 40⟩he be found perfectly righteous, and that because it necessarily involves a man in gui•• not to be so: For there is a guilt in omission 〈…〉 w•ll as in commission; such are therefore pronounced accursed, Gal. 3.10. Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things that are written in the Book of the Law to do them.