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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. That the person thus tried, be not found guilty of transgression in any other points of the Law; or at least that full satisfaction hath been made by him for every such default: There must be no Debts standing out, no arrearages unpaid: for upon the presumption that there be many perfectly good deeds done, yet if there be other deeds that have been faults, o• faulty, the Law will not bate them: if a man hath kept the Law in every other point but one, and that one be alleged against him he cannot be justified; for if he have no persisted in all, it declares him to be accused, Gal. 3. 10. Cursed is every one that continue not in all things written in the book of the Law to do them: Hence we have that plain assertion of the Apostle James, Jam. 2. 10. Who soever shall keep the whole Law, and yet offence in one point, is guilty of all: and therefore […] no reparation be made he is unjustifiable.
2. That the person thus tried, be not found guilty of transgression in any other points of the Law; or at least that full satisfaction hath been made by him for every such default: There must be no Debts standing out, no arrearages unpaid: for upon the presumption that there be many perfectly good deeds done, yet if there be other deeds that have been faults, o• faulty, the Law will not bate them: if a man hath kept the Law in every other point but one, and that one be alledged against him he cannot be justified; for if he have no persisted in all, it declares him to be accused, Gal. 3. 10. Cursed is every one that continue not in all things written in the book of the Law to do them: Hence we have that plain assertion of the Apostle James, Jam. 2. 10. Who soever shall keep the whole Law, and yet offence in one point, is guilty of all: and therefore 〈…〉 no reparation be made he is unjustifiable.