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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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4. Neither doth Faith justify as the principal applier of the Justification which is procured by Christ, unto us; it is not to be looked upon as the highest cause of the application of the benefit to our persons: this also was to ⟨p. 98⟩exalt it above its place, and give it a preeminence beyond its due. It is before into mated, that in the application of the Righteousness of Christ unto us, there is something done by God, and something done by us: now that which God doth is the principal, viz. he takes this Righteousness of the hands of Christ, as done for us, and the• he gives it to us, or imputes it to our account of his own rich grace, and this imputation is the main efficient of our Justification; for it is God that justifies, Rom. 8. 23. i. e. principally, giving is more honourable than receiving, and we owe the acknowledgement of all the benefit we have in being enriched by such a gift, to him that conferred […] upon us, and nothing to our selves for taking it; although it be still a truth, that if we had not received it, we could not have been enriched by it.
4. Neither doth Faith justifie as the principal applier of the Justification which is procured by Christ, unto us; it is not to be looked upon as the highest cause of the application of the benefit to our persons: this also was to ⟨p. 98⟩exalt it above its place, and give it a preheminence beyond its due. It is before into mated, that in the application of the Righteousness of Christ unto us, there is something done by God, and something done by us: now that which God doth is the principal, viz. he takes this Righteousness of the hands of Christ, as done for us, and the• he gives it to us, or imputes it to our account of his own rich grace, and this imputation is the main efficient of our Justification; for it is God that justifies, Rom. 8. 23. i. e. principally, giving is more honourable than receiving, and we owe the acknowledgment of all the benefit we have in being enriched by such a gift, to him that conferred 〈…〉 upon us, and nothing to our selves for taking it; although it be still a truth, that if we had not received it, we could not have been enriched by it.