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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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2. Hence it follows, that if a man be justified by his own righteousness, there must necessarily be these two qualifications found in it, viz.
1. That the actions and works themselves by which he is judged be found perfect: not only to have some conformity to the Law, that will not be sufficient, but they must exactly and fully quadrate therewithal: they must be throughly righteous, and they must not be chargeable with any defect, they must not in the least point fall short; but being laid by the rule of trial, they must answer it in all its dimensions without any the least imperfection, for the Law will not lose one tittle of its own; Mat. 5 18. One jot or tittle of the Law shall not pass till all be fulfilled. that is accusation enough against any for God to have to say to us, Rev. 3.2. I have not found thy works perfect before God: There must therefore be discovered in them, not only the matter of a duty complete, but also that love to God in it which is required, and that is with all the heart, and soul, and strength and might; and the least degree wanting in it of this, will bring it under a censure, and make it, when weighed in the balance, be found too light.
1. That the actions and works themselves by which he is judged be found perfect: not only to have some conformity to the Law, that will not be sufficient, but they must exactly and fully quadrate therewithal: they must be throughly righteous, and they must not be chargeable with any defect, they must not in the least point fall short; but being laid by the rule of trial, they must answer it in all its dimensions without any the least imperfection, for the Law will not lose one tittle of its own; Mat. 5 18. One jot or tittle of the Law shall not pass till all be fulfilled. that is accusation enough against any for God to have to say to us,