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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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Sometimes it ascribes it to the Blood of Christ, Rom. 15. Rom. 5. 9. much more than being now justified by his blood, and then it directs us to eye the meritorious cause his blood being put Metonymically; for his satisfaction; and that Synecdochically for […] whole Obedience by which be merited for us and therefore sometime it gives it to his Obedience in general, Rom. 15. 19. By the Obedience of one many shall be made righteous; and so it shows us the matter of our Justification. Sometimes it acknowledgeth it to God, Rom, 8. 33. It is God that justifieth: and so we ⟨p. 101⟩[…] given to discover the efficient of our Justification, for it is God who applying the righteousness of Christ to us, and covering […] with it, doth actually justify us, and sometimes Faith is honoured with having it ascribed to that, Rom. 5. 1. Being justified by faith; […] then it intends the instrument or hand which receives it, for when we have given to ••ch other that which is their due, what else […] their remain to be attributed to Faith […] only this? And this further serves to let […] understand, that our actual or personal justification, being one part of the work of application, wherein this fruit of Redemption is by the Spirit applied to us upon our believing, that therefore we are not Justified in a Gospel sense, before, but in and with our believing in Christ: for then only so that Justification which the Son of God hath procured for us, and received in our name, brought home to us, and conferred upon us, which is plainly included in our being said to be justified by Faith.
Sometimes it ascribes it to the Blood of Christ, Rom. 15. Rom. 5. 9. much more than being now justified by his blood, and then it directs us to eye the meritorious cause his blood being put Metonimically; for his satisfaction; and that Synechdochically for whole Obedience by which be merited for us and therefore sometime it gives it to his Obedience in general,