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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. This obedience of Christ is in the Scripture reckoned to be the matter of our Justification: those expressions do fully infer it, in Rom. 5.19. For as by one mans disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. How is it possible that one man can be made righteous by ⟨p. 45⟩the obedience of another, but only as his obedience is made ours in Law; or as when i• trieth us, it doth it by his obedience, and not by our own personal? like unto this in that 2 Cor. 5.21. He hath made him sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. How can we be made the righteousness of God, in him, but b••our having of his righteousness so looked upon as if we our selves had been the actual performers of it? and what else but this can the Apostle aim at in our Text, when he desires to be found in him, under the robe of his Righteousness, and not of his own, but that he would have that to cover his defects, and stand for him in the trial of the Law, and so become the matter upon which he is to be judged, and according to which the Sentence may pass?
2. This obedience of Christ is in the Scripture reckoned to be the matter of our Justification: those expressions do fully inferr it, in Rom. 5.19. For as by one mans disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. How is it possible that one man can be made righteous by ⟨p. 45⟩the obedience of another, but only as his obedience is made ours in Law; or as when i• trieth us, it doth it by his obedience, and not by our own personal? like unto this in that 2 Cor. 5.21. He hath made him sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. How can we be made the righteousness of God, in him, but bour having of his righteousness so looked upon as if we our selves had been the actual performers of it? and what else but this can the Apostle aim at in our Text, when he desires to be found in him, under the robe of his Righteousness, and not of his own, but that he would have that to cover his defects, and stand for him in the trial of the Law, and so become the matter upon which he is to be judged, and according to which the Sentence may pass?