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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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3. That Justification is properly the act of the Judge of the Court. The mans clearing must proceed according to his Sentence, and none can do it authentically but he. It will […] profit the man that stands at the Bar, to have all the […] standers, when they hear ⟨p. 11⟩his Cause pleaded, to declare themselves for him, and to say that it is good, innocent and faultless; all this cannot justify him, but his case is still depending until the Judg himself speaks, and his Sentence only determines it. Justification is an act of authority, Pilate speaks in the quality of a Judg, John 19. 10. Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee? God only can justify a Sinner, for he is the mouth of his own Law, and reserves the dispensation of it to himself, and to his Son (who is also God) who acts by Commission from his Father, all Judgment therefore is given to Jesus Christ, and the exertion of it remains with him, John 5. 22 The Father hath committed all Judgment to the Son.
3. That Justification is properly the act of the Judge of the Court. The mans clearing must proceed according to his Sentence, and none can do it authentically but he. It will 〈…〉 profit the man that stands at the Bar, to have all the 〈…〉 standers, when they hear ⟨p. 11⟩his Cause pleaded, to declare themselves for him, and to say that it is good, innocent and faultless; all this cannot justify him, but his case is still depending until the Judg himself speaks, and his Sentence only determines it. Justification is an act of authority, Pilate speaks in the quality of a Judg, John 19. 10. Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee? God only can justify a Sinner, for he is the mouth of his own Law, and reserves the dispensation of it to himself, and to his Son (who is also God) who acts by Commission from his Father, all Judgment therefore is given to Jesus Christ, and the exertion of it remains with him,