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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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5. This surety, if he will take off mans guilt, and render him just, must be able to do and suffer all that the Law requires: If he will acquit guilty man from his condemnation under which he is detained, and procure for him Eternal Life, which he hath lost, he must fulfil all the Covenant Articles for him. Jesus Christ therefore assures us that this was his ⟨p. 51⟩Errand and work that he came into the world about, Mat. 5. 17. I came not to destroy the Law, but to fulfil it. Now this is a work that every person is not competent for, a province that any one cannot successfully undertake, it requires one that is of sufficient abilities, for it is not undertaking that will do, but it must be fulfilling: Justice is not so regardless of its own glory as not to be sure that the surety be sufficient and solvent, before it will indent for the delivering up of its Prisoner.
5. This surety, if he will take off mans guilt, and render him just, must be able to do and suffer all that the Law requires: If he will acquit guilty man from his condemnation under which he is detained, and procure for him Eternal Life, which he hath lost, he must fullfil all the Covenant Articles for him. Jesus Christ therefore assures us that this was his ⟨p. 51⟩Errand and work that he came into the world about, Mat. 5. 17. I came not to destroy the Law, but to fullfil it. Now this is a work that every person is not competent for, a province that any one cannot successfully undertake, it requires one that is of sufficient abilities, for it is not undertaking that will do, but it must be fullfilling: Justice is not so regardless of its own glory as not to be sure that the surety be sufficient and solvent, before it will indent for the delivering up of its Prisoner.