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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. They who have sin remaining in them after Justification, must needs be justified by imputation, ⟨p. 69⟩& so have the best believers, Paul himself complains of soul captivating sin, such as made him to cry out of his wretchedness, Rom. 7. and the wise man makes a challenge to all the holy men living, Prov. 20. 9. Who can say I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? satisfaction is but in part, there is something of the old man and his works; these things are obstructious to being justified for our own doings; the Psalmist cries out, Psal 141. 2. Enter no• into Judgment with thy servant, for in thy sight shall no flesh be justified, and Psal. 130. 3. If thou Lord shouldst mark iniquity, who could stand? and therefore there must needs be another's Righteousness reckoned to Gods people as their own, or else they would every day lay themselves open to be Condemned.
5. They who have sin remaining in them after Justification, must needs be justified by imputation, ⟨p. 69⟩& so have the best believers, Paul himself complains of soul captivating sin, such as made him to cry out of his wretchedness, Rom. 7. and the wise man makes a challenge to all the holy men living, Prov. 20. 9. Who can say I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? satisfaction is but in part, there is something of the old man and his works; these things are obstructious to being justified for our own doings; the Psalmist cries out, Psal 141. 2. Enter no• into Judgment with thy servant, for in thy sight shall no flesh be justified, and Psal. 130. 3. If thou Lord shouldst mark iniquity, who could stand? and therefore there must needs be anothers Righteousness reckoned to Gods people as their own, or else they would every day lay themselves open to be Condemned.