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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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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⟩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.
Now in a Judge it is requisite.