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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. That Faith doth not justify us, as it hath any worth or merit of its own in it, to deserve or earn Justification for us: they do very grossly mistake themselves, who think that ⟨p. 95⟩Faith hath every way the same consideration in the new Covenant, which obedience or works had in the Old: It is true, it is the condition of this as obedience was the condition of the other: but yet there is this plain and manifest difference, that in the old Covenant God had a proper respect to the work of Obedience, as that which had a Covenant merit in it, or for which man was to have been justified, if he had continued in it, Rom 10. 5. Moses describeth the Righteousness, which is of the Law, that the man that doth these things shall live by them. But in the process of Gospel Justification, it is Christs Righteousness which stands to answer in the room of ours, and not our Faith: So that the merit of our Justification is in the object, viz. Christ; and not in the act of Faith: If we believe in him, he then stands to answer for us to our Judg, and all his earnings are made over to us upon our believing, and placed to our account.
1. That Faith doth not justifie us, as it hath any worth or merit of its own in it, to deserve or earn Justification for us: they do very grosly mistake themselves, who think that ⟨p. 95⟩Faith hath every way the same consideration in the new Covenant, which obedience or works had in the Old: It is true, it is the condition of this as obedience was the condition of the other: but yet there is this plain and manifest difference, that in the old Covenant God had a proper respect to the work of Obedience, as that which had a Covenant merit in it, or for which man was to have been justified, if he had continued in it, Rom 10. 5. Moses describeth the Righteousness, which is of the Law, that the man that doth these things shall live by them. But in the process of Gospel Justification, it is Christs Righteousness which stands to answer in the room of ours, and not our Faith: So that the merit of our Justification is in the object, viz. Christ; and not in the act of Faith: If we believe in him, he then stands to answer for us to our Judg, and all his earnings are made over to us upon our believing, and placed to our account.