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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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2 That in this Trial there is a question supposed: and this question must be, whether the man who comes upon his Trial, be guilty ⟨p. 10⟩of the breach of the Law by which he is to be tried, or no. For all judgments must have a relation to some Law, which is to be the Rule of Trial, and according unto which the man must be found guilty or not guilty. In order to such a process, it is requisite that there be a Case made, and this Case referred to, or examined and compared by the Law, and thus there must be an account taken of the person, and a distinct enquiry be made into all such matters as may be alleged either for or against him, hence that, 1 Pet. 4. 5. Who shall give account to him that is ready to judg both the quick and the dead. Giving an account, implies an examination of a case; and the question can be no other than this, Whether the man be under the guilt of a breach of Law, whether […] have any such hold of him as to condemn him; or any thing wherein he is guilty to lay to his Charge; or whether he stands clear of it, and it hath nothing whereof to accuse him.
2 That in this Tryal there is a question supposed: and this question must be, whether the man whocomes upon his Tryal, be guilty ⟨p. 10⟩of the breach of the Law by which he is to be tryed, or no. For all judgments must have a relation to some Law, which is to be the Rule of Tryal, and according unto which the man must be found guilty or not guilty. In order to such a process, it is requisite that there be a Case made, and this Case referred to, or examined and compared by the Law, and thus there must be an account taken of the person, and a distinct enquiry be made into all such matters as may be alledged either for or against him, hence that, 1 Pet. 4. 5. Who shall give account to him that is ready to judg both the quick and the dead. Giving an account, implies an examination of a case; and the question can be no other than this, Whether the man be under the guilt of a breach of Law, whether 〈…〉 have any such hold of him as to condemn him; or any thing wherein he is guilty to lay to his Charge; or whether he stands clear of it, and it hath nothing whereof to accuse him.