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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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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.
1. Negatively, not mine own Righteousness, which is of the Law.
2. Affirmatively, but that, &c. i. e. The Righteousness of Christ, whose Righteousness is to be looked upon as the Meritorious and Material Cause of our Justification.
2. Affirmatively, but that, &c. i. e. The Righteousness of Christ, whose Righteousness is to be looked upon as the Mevitorious and Matertal Cause of our Jaustification.
3. The Author of this Righteousness is ⟨p. 5⟩here declared, viz. God, the Righteousness which is of God:
4. The instrument of our Justification by this Righteousness is declared; and that is Faith, which is of God by Faith, and the object of this Faith is also signified, viz. Christ, through the Faith of Christ.