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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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He that doth not give credit to the truth of the promise, will never rely upon it for mercy and salvation; he that comes to God, (i. e, in Faith) must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him, Heb, 12.6. It is therefore one great part of Gospel work, to enlighten […] understandings in the knowledge of Christ, and of the▪ great things purchased by him to be conferred upon his people, Eph. 1. 18, 19. and if ever we come to take hold of the promise by Faith, and of Christ in it, we are to believe that God is true in all that he faith, that his Testimony carries its own credit with it, because it is the Word of God who cannot lye; and that this word of promise is his word; and that there is salvation ⟨p. 88⟩sufficient in Jesus Christ who is exhibited […] us in this promise, and that this salvation shall without fail be bestowed upon all such as do believe in him, according unto it: that he who hath promised is faithful, and will also perform: without a free and full assent to, & credit of all this, there is no hope that a soul should be persuaded really to adventure it self upon the word of promise.
He that doth not give credit to the truth of the promise, will never rely upon it for mercy and salvation; he that comes to God, (i. e, in Faith) must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him, Heb, 12.6. It is therefore one great part of Gospel work, to enlighten 〈…〉 understandings in the knowledge of Christ, and of the▪ great things purchased by him to be conferred upon his people, Eph. 1. 18, 19. and if ever we come to take hold of the promise by Faith, and of Christ in it, we are to believe that God is true in all that he faith, that his Testimony carries its own credit with it, because it is the Word of God who cannot lye; and that this word of promise is his word; and that there is salvation ⟨p. 88⟩sufficient in Jesus Christ who is exhibited 〈…〉 us in this promise, and that this salvation shall without fail be bestowed upon all such as do believe in him, according unto it: that he who hath promised is faithful, and will also perform: without a free and full assent to, & credit of all this, there is no hope that a soul should be perswaded really to adventure it self upon the word of promise.