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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 he be just and righteous in passing the sentence, after he hath taken an account of the whole case: That he condemn not the innocent, nor justify the wicked; Solomon acquaints us that both of these are an abomination unto him, Prov. 17.15. and if he hates these things in others, we may be sure that he will not do them himself; nor is he indeed worthy to be acknowledged a Judge, that doth not make it his business in matters of judgment to administer impartial Justice, hence that in Gen. 18.25. Shall not the Judg of all the Earth do right? and the conclusion that follows from hence is, that in a legal Justification, the person justified must be without fault; or he must be first justified by the Law, before he can be so by the Judge: all this therefore is requisite to the Justification ⟨p. 19⟩of a Sinner according to the Law of God.
3. That he be just and righteous in passing the sentence, after he hath taken an account of the whole case: That he condemn not the innocent, nor justifie the wicked; Solomon acquaints us that both of these are an abomination unto him, Prov. 17.15. and if he hates these things in others, we may be sure that he will not do them himself; nor is he indeed worthy to be acknowledged a Judge, that doth not make it his business in matters of judgment to administer impartial Justice, hence that in Gen. 18.25. Shall not the Judg of all the Earth do right? and the conclusion that follows from hence is, that in a legal Justification, the person justified must be without fault; or he must be first justified by the Law, before he can be so by the Judge: all this therefore is requisite to the Justification ⟨p. 19⟩of a Sinner according to the Law of God.