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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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4. In the next place I am to make it evident that this Righteousness of Christ is freely imputed of God. It hath already been made to appear, That there must be a Righteousness presented to Justice for the procuring of our Justification; That this cannot be out own personal; That there is both a complete sufficiency in the Righteousness of Christ for the bringing of this about, and that there was an actual intendment of it to this end: But still, except it had been so, ⟨p. 54⟩that all Adams lost Progeny had been equally advantaged by it, all that is hitherto said, is not enough to satisfy an inquisitive soul […] for the great enquiry yet remains, viz. how shall I come by it? in what way are any of the children of men made partakers of it […] Here therefore there is something done […] Gods part, and something on our part in order to this. The former of these, or what is done on Gods part is now under our consideration, and that is his gracious imputation of this Righteousness unto sinners. Here then there are two things that offer themselves to be made Good.
4. In the next place I am to make it evident that this Righteousness of Christ is freely imputed of God. It hath already been made to appear, That there must be a Righteousness presented to Justice for the procuring of our Justification; That this cannot be out own personal; That there is both a compleat sufficiency in the Righteousness of Christ for the bringing of this about, and that there was an actual intendment of it to this end: But still, except it had been so, ⟨p. 54⟩that all Adams lost Progeny had been equally advantaged by it, all that is hitherto said, is not enough to satisfie an inquisitive soul 〈…〉 for the great enquiry yet remains, viz. how shall I come by it? in what way are any of the children of men made partakers of it 〈…〉 Here therefore there is something done 〈…〉 Gods part, and something on our part in order to this. The former of these, or what is done on Gods part is now under our consideration, and that is his gracious imputation of this Righteousness unto sinners. Here then there are two things that offer themselves to be made Good.