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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
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.
By his own Righteousness of the Law, Paul intends his Personal Righteousness, performed by his own endeavours, and accommodated to the tenor of the Covenant of Works. By the Righteousness which is of God, he intends both that which God hath devised and procured for us, and confers upon us freely, and that also which was wrought by a Divine Person, even the Eternal Son of the Eternal Father: By the Faith of Christ, he intends not the Faith which Jesus Christ exerted, or his personal and inherent Faith, but the Faith which both hath the Lord Jesus Christ for its object, and also flows from or is wrought by Christ, as the efficient of it in us▪
By his own Righteousness of the Law, Paul intends his Personal Righteousness, performed by his own endeavours, and accommodated to the tenour of the Covenant of Works. By the Righteousness which is of God, he intends both that which God hath devised and procured for us, and confers upon us freely, and that also which was wrought by a Divine Person, even the Eternal Son of the Eternal Father: By the Faith of Christ, he intends not the Faith which Jesus Christ exerted, or his personal and inherent Faith, but the Faith which both hath the Lord Jesus Christ for its object, and also flows from or is wrought by Christ, as the efficient of it in us▪
What further explication the words may ⟨p. 6⟩require, will be taken notice of in the prosecution of the Subject.
I shall not take up all that might be observed from the words, but endeavour to pick up something out of them, which may lead us to that which I intend, viz. a little enquiry into the great article of Justification: Hence,