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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. You are out of the danger of condemnation. Rom. 8.1. There is therefore no more condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. The Son of God in your nature, and standing in the place of a Surety for you, hath been arraigned, tried, condemned and slain, Justice hath done all to him which it had threatened you withal, so that you are now out of the danger of all the menaces of the Law, the accusations of Satan and whatever charge there may be brought in against you, Rom. 8. 33, 34. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods […] it is God that justifieth, who is he that […] it is Christ that died. Your condemnation is over, the punishment threatened you is past, and there now remains nothing but a glorious acquittance, and open declaration of the righteousness of your cause.
1. You are out of the danger of condemnation. Rom. 8.1. There is therefore no more condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. The Son of God in your nature, and standing in the place of a Surety for you, hath been arraigned, tried, condemned and slain, Justice hath done all to him which it had threatned you withal, so that you are now out of the danger of all the menaces of the Law, the accusations of Satan and whatever charge there may be brought in against you, Rom. 8. 33, 34. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods 〈…〉 it is God that justifieth, who is he that 〈…〉 it is Christ that died. Your condemnation is over, the punishment threatned you is past, and there now remains nothing but a glorious acquittance, and open declaration of the righteousness of your cause.
2. The world can do you no harm, nor all the changes that you lie liable to in it; they may give you a great deal of outward molestation; they may pervert Justice, and condemn you as wicked persons, they may rifle your houses, imprison your persons, take away your lives, and remove you from off the face of the earth, yea and make you the scorn of men, and expose your names to standers and obloquy; but here lies your comfort in the midst of all this, when they have done their worst, and vented their spleen