N00347:197
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. On the other hand, If your Cause shall be right and it shall be your happiness to receive a Sentence, of Justification at that Bar, you are then happy indeed, and may bless God with all your Souls that ever he gave you a Being, wherein you were made capable of being the Subjects of these infinite and indeterminable Glories, which that blessed Sentence shall invest you with; and your Judge shall upon the pronouncing of it, put you in possession of; who shall hereupon, not only deliver you for ever from the direful Curse of the Law, which contained all miseries in it, but also exalt you to a glorious Throne, and set a massy Crown of life upon your heads; entertain you in the everlasting embraces of his ravishing affection, and make you eternally to swim in bankless, boundless and bottomless ⟨p. 123⟩Ocean of pleasures, in the presence of God, and of the Lamb; where you shall be filled and run over with fullness of Joys: and what do you now say to these things? must these needs be the issues of this matter? and will you notwithstanding you are told of it, and strep of the truth and certainty of the thing, still be secure and careless about it? shall such a cause of so infinite moment, be slighted, and let run at uncertainty? are Salvation and Damnation things so indifferent, that it is no great matter whether of them be your Lot? however you may think of these things how, I am sure you will be another persuasion ere it be long.
2. On the other hand, If your Cause shall be right and it shall be your happiness to receive a Sentence, of Justification at that Bar, you are then happy indeed, and may bless God with all your Souls that ever he gave you a Being, wherein you were made capable of being the Subjects of these infinite and indeterminable Glories, which that blessed Sentence shall invest you with; and your Judge shall upon the pronouncing of it, put you in possession of; who shall hereupon, not only deliver you for ever from the direful Curse of the Law, which contained all miseries in it, but also exalt you to a glorious Throne, and set a massy Crown of life upon your heads; entertain you in the everlasting embraces of his ravishing affection, and make you eternally to swim in bankless, boundless and bottomless ⟨p. 123⟩Ocean of pleasures, in the presence of God, and of the Lamb; where you shall be filled and run over with fulness of Joyes: and what do you now say to these things? must these needs be the issues of this matter? and will you notwithstanding you are told of it, and ssrep of the truth and certainty of the thing, still be secure and careless about it? shall such a cause of so infinite moment, be slighted, and let run at uncertainty? are Salvation and Damnation things so indifferent, that it is no great matter whether of them be your Lot? however you may think of these things how, I am sure you will be another perswasion ere it be long.