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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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I intend not here any Polemical, but only a Doctrinal Discourse.
The point of Justification is a main Article of the Christian Religion, and that which principally gives us light into (yea wherein mainly consists) the difference between the Law, and Gospel Covenant; one therefore calls it, Arti••lum […] cadentis Eccles••; and upon this account it hath been most of all battered by Satan and his Instruments, and made the apple of contention; and ball of controversy in many Ages; there is therefore need of the greater care to be well established it, and rightly ⟨p. 8⟩built upon it, and indeed I […] see how Christ can rightly be believed in unto Salvation, where this Article is either not at all known, or fundamentally mistaken:
The point of Justification is a main Article of the Christian Religion, and that which principally gives us light into (yea wherein mainly consists) the difference between the Law, and Gospel Covenant; one therefore calls it, Arti••lum 〈…〉 cadentis Eccles••; and upon this account it hath been most of all battered by Satan and his Instruments, and made the apple of contention; and ball of controversy in many Ages; there is therefore need of the greater care to be well established it, and rightly ⟨p. 8⟩built upon it, and indeed I 〈…〉 see how Christ can rightly be believed in unto Salvation, where this Article is either not at all known, or fundamentally mistaken: