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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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How much this manifestly differs from Sanctification, (though by some they are confounded) might largely be made to appear, but it is needless here to insist, only in brief, the one is imputed, the other is inherent; the Righteousness of the one is in Christ subjectively, of the other in the Believer; the one is an act, the other is a work; the one a judicial act, the other a Physical work, the one works a Relative, the other a substantial change; the one is perfect at once, the other gains its perfection by degrees; the one dischargeth a man from guilt, the other frees him from pollution; the one declares him righteous, the other makes him holy; and thus briefly for the thing which we are enquiring after, viz Justification, according to the right notion of it.
How much this manifestly differs from Sanctification, (though by some they are confounded) might largly be made to appear, but it is needless here to insist, only in brief, the one is imputed, the other is inherent; the Righteousness of the one is in Christ subjectively, of the other in the Believer; the one is an act, the other is a work; the one a judicial act, the other a Phisical work, the one works a Relative, the other a substantial change; the one is perfect at once, the other gains its perfection by degrees; the one dischargeth a man from guilt, the other frees him from pollution; the one declares him righteous, the other makes him holy; and thus briefly for the thing which we are enquiring after, viz Justification, according to the right notion of it.
2. It follows to make it to appear, that it is impossible that our Justification should flow from our legal Righteousness: and in order to the making out of this assertion, we may for an introduction, first enquire what is meant by our Righteousness of the Law, and then what it is for our Justification to flow from this Righteousness; And here,