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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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Now that this cannot justify us, or be the matter of our justification; or that our inherent Righteousness and good works proceeding from it, will not merit and procure this for us, is the thing to be evidenced and will appear if we lay together these conclusions following.
Now that this cannot justifie us, or be the matter of our justification; or that our inherent Righteousness and good works proceeding from it, will not merit and procure this for us, is the thing to be evidenced and will appear if we lay together these conclusions following.
1. That God in the Justification of a Sinner acts the part of a Judge, and Justifies the sinner judicially, or as a righteous judge, i. e. he doth it in the way of a process, and upon trial, and according unto equity: He doth not act the part of a Father in this case who may connive at, pity and overlook faults and weaknesses in his Child, but of a judge that takes the Law for his Rule, and clothes himself with Righteousness as a garment: Thus is the Relation which God stands in unto man according to the tenor of the first Covenant, and the respect which ⟨p. 17⟩condition bears unto it; for under that Covenant every sinner stands until he becomes a believer, and from which [believing] he must be delivered by this act of justification, and that in such a way as the Law may not be violated, or any injury be offered to it; but the sinner must be fairly discharged from it.
1. That God in the Justification of a Sinner acts the part of a Judge, and Justifies the sinner judicially, or as a righteous judge, i. e. he doth it in the way of a process, and upon tryal, and according unto equity: He doth not act the part of a Father in this case who may connive at, pity and overlook faults and weaknesses in his Child, but of a judge that takes the Law for his Rule, and cloaths himself with Righteousness as a garment: Thus is the Relation which God stands in unto man according to the tenour of the first Covenant, and the respect which ⟨p. 17⟩