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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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Philippians III. IX. And be found in him, not having mine own Righteousness, which is of the Law, but that which is through the Faith of Christ, the Righteousness which is of God by Faith.
Phillippians III. IX. And be found in him, not having mine own Righteousness, which is of the Law, but that which is through the Faith of Christ, the Righteousness which is of God by Faith.
The Justification of a Sinner before God, is (as one great mystery of the Gospel, and Wonderment of Angels; so) that after which every one of the posterity of fallen men hath great reason to be earnestly inquisitive; it being the foundation of our present peace with God, and the ground of our appearing before him with joy in the great day of Accounts. How much Pauls heart and thoughts were taken up with this solicitude, the Text and Context will make to ⟨p. 2⟩appear; for having told us how highly privileged he was, verse 4, 5, 6. and how willingly he parted with those privileges, verse 7. yea, and how resolutely he continued to despise every thing of his own, vers: 8. beginning: he proceeds to render the reason why he so did; and that is drawn up in several particulars, and all relating unto Christ: q. d. I do ask this for Christs sake: there are therefore three ends here specified.
THe Justification of a Sinner before God, is (as one great mystery of the Gospel, and Wonderment of Angels; so) that after which every one of the posterity of fallen men hath great reason to be earnestly inquisitive; it being the foundation of our present peace with God, and the ground of our appearing before him with joy in the great day of Accounts. How much Pauls heart and thoughts were taken up with this sollicitude, the Text and Context will make to