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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. Hence man must of necessity have a righteousness to offer unto Gods Justice for his Justify […]; if ever be hopes to attain it; and not only so, but he must have such a righteousness […] may in all the parts of it answer to the demand of the Covenant. For, without a righteousness to look upon, and proceed according unto, the Justice of God can have nothing before it which it hath any any advantage to justify him by or for, and except this be […] large and full as the Law requires, it hath […] that in it which is sufficient […] end of it; as good none at all, as an imperfect one; for if it be found to have any flaw in it, then either Justice must connive, and give him some abatement, which it never will, nor were in Justice if it should; or else it must be rejected as a thing altogether insignificant; and so it shall, for not a jot or tittle of the Law shall pass, till all be fulfilled, Matth. 5.18.
2. Hence man must of necessity have a righteousness to offer unto Gods Justice for his Justify 〈…〉; if ever be hopes to attain it; and not only so, but he must have such a righteousness 〈…〉 may in all the parts of it answer to the demand of the Covenant. For, without a righteousness to look upon, and proceed according unto, the Justice of God can have nothing before it which it hath any any advantage to justifie him by or for, and except this be 〈…〉 large and full as the Law requires, it hath 〈…〉 that in it which is sufficient 〈…〉 end of it; as good none at all, as an imperfect one; for if it be found to have any flaw in it, then either Justice must connive, and give him some abatement, which it never will, nor were in Justice if it should; or else it must be rejected as a thing altogether insignificant; and so it shall, for not a jot or tittle of the Law shall pass, till all be fulfilled, Matth. 5.18.