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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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2. That it doth not take from, but increase the greatness of the free grace of it, that the Righteousness which is imputed to us, was to Jesus Christ a costly Righteousness: the kindness of a benefactor discover it self, in his bestowing of that upon others for nothing but their accepting of it, which cost him a great sum to purchase for them, more than it would if he had only parted with that which stood him in nothing at all: The Doctrine of Christs Satisfaction for the working out of a Righteousness for us, by the which we might be justified, doth not derogate from, but greatly illustrate the Doctrine of the free grace of God: if a man Redeem a ⟨p. 74⟩captive, and set him at liberty without any Repayment, his kindness is valued according to his expense; and so it is in the present case, for though it cost Christ an unknown price to obtain it, yet all this cost is laid our upon the sinner gratis Now that this Righteousness of Christ is freely imputed to us, or is an act of rich and eminent grace, will appear, if we consider these things.
2. That it doth not take from, but encrease the greatness of the free grace of it, that the Righteousness which is imputed to us, was to Jesus Christ a costly Righteousness: the kindness of a benefactor discover it self, in his bestowing of that upon others for nothing but their accepting of it, which cost him a great summe to purchase for them, more than it would if he had only parted with that which stood him in nothing at all: The Doctrine of Christs Satisfaction for the working out of a Righteousness for us, by the which we might be justified, doth not derogate from, but greatly illustrate the Doctrine of the free grace of God: if a man Redeem a ⟨p. 74⟩captive, and set him at liberty without any Repayment, his kindness is valued according to his expense; and so it is in the present case, for though it cost Christ an unknown price to obtain it, yet all this cost is laid our upon the sinner gratis Now that this Righteousness of Christ is freely imputed to us, or is an act of rich and eminent grace, will appear, if we consider these things.