N00347:26
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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2. As an Exposition of what he means by this option of his, so a reason given of this desire, in the sequel of the verse: It is, q. d. By being found in Christ. I intend being interested in his Righteousness; or the reason why I would be upon trial found united to Christ, is, that I may have his Righteousness reckoned to me as mine own; that I may be acquitted and justified in the great day upon his account. The words ⟨p. 4⟩therefore clearly held out unto us, the whole substance of the great point of Justification, or the way wherein a sinner comes to be Justified before God, viz.
2. As an Exposition of what he means by this option of his, so a reason given of this desire, in the sequel of the verse: It is, q. d. By being found in Christ. I intend being interested in his Righteousness; or the reason why I would be upon tryal found united to Christ, is, that I may have his Righteousness reckoned to me as mine own; that I may be acquitted and justified in the great day upon his account. The words ⟨p. 4⟩therefore clearly held out unto us, the whole substance of the great point of Justification, or the way wherein a sinner comes to be Justified before God, viz.
1. In general, he must be found in Christ:
2. More specially or explicitly: