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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 need the greatness or numerousness of your former sins distract or affright you: these need not to make you afraid that God will reject you, if you have Christs Righteousness engaged for you, that is as big as your unrighteousness, look upon it with all the aggravations you can: and what need you then be terrified? God hath imputed it unto you, and in so doing, he hath made all your sins to be as if they had never been, they are concealed they are sunk into the depths, they are lost, and quite out of sight for ever doing you a displeasure any more: See how fully the Lord declares himself in his word, concerning all those that have betaken themselves to, and sought shelter under the Righteousness of Christ, Isa. 1. 18. though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow though they be ⟨p. 165⟩red like crimson, they shall be as wool, chap. 43. 25. I, even I am •e who blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and I will not remember thy sins, cap. 44.22. I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy Transgressions, and as a cloud thy sins, Jer. 50.10. In those days and at that time saith the Lord the iniquity of Jacob shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I restore: and what can be said more full to your comfort? they had great sins, and many sins; but they are all obliterated, the remembrance of them is lost; they stand as clear in Gods account as if they had never done any thing to his Just provocation.
4. Neither need the greatness or numerousness of your former sins distract or affright you: these need not to make you afraid that God will reject you, if you have Christs Righteousness engaged for you, that is as big as your unrighteousness, look upon it with all the aggravations you can: and what need you then be terrified? God hath imputed it unto you, and in so doing, he hath made all your sins to be as if they had never been, they are concealed they are sunk into the depths, they are lost, and quite out of sight for ever doing you a displeasure any more: See how fully the Lord declares himself in his word, concerning all those that have betaken themselves to, and sought shelter under the Righteousness of Christ,