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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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1. The Son of God assumed our nature, not for any perfection which it added unto him, but for the redemption and salvation of Gods Elect. His own divine Person was not any whit perfected, or made better or more complete and happy by this Assumption; for he had […] the fullness of Divine and Glorious perfections in himself, being God: and what addition of glory can such a thing be conceived to be capable of making to him, for the eternal King to take upon him the form of a Servant? no; if we had not been sold for Bond-slaves, and thereupon stood in need […] being Redeemed; if we had not been lost, & must either be recovered again, or undone the Son of God would have had no occasion for his incarnation: we stood in absolute need of it, and could not have been saved without it, and his great love to us put him upon such a thing: this business therefore ⟨p. 59⟩was engaged in for us, Isai. 9. 6. Unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given: and Paul plainly tells us what he came into the world for, 1 Tim. 1. 15. Jesus Christ came to save sinners.
1. The Son of God assumed our nature, not for any perfection which it added unto him, but for the redemption and salvation of Gods Elect. His own divine Person was not any whit perfected, or made better or more compleat and happy by this Assumption; for he had 〈…〉 the fulness of Divine and Glorious perfections in himself, being God: and what addition of glory can such a thing be conceived to be capable of making to him, for the eternal King to take upon him the form of a Servant? no; if we had not been sold for Bond-slaves, and thereupon stood in need 〈…〉 being Redeemed; if we had not been lost, & must either be recovered again, or undone the Son of God would have had no occasion for his incarnation: we stood in absolute need of it, and could not have been saved without it, and his great love to us put him upon such a thing: this business therefore ⟨p. 59⟩was engaged in for us,