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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. The severity of the Law: It is an unchangeable Rule of Gods proceeding with the reasonable Creature, it is that for obedience unto which (and thereby to glorify God) Man was made, and by which he must be judged at the last: Now this Law will have both Obedience and Satisfaction, or else it will never acquit and justify us: but man can do neither of these. That he cannot legally obey, hath been already made to appear; but the Law will not release him from that obligation: neither yet can he make satisfaction for his defaults; none of Adams race can clear themselves from having been Law-breakers, and they have no recompense to make for the wrongs done to it by this transgression of theirs; thousands of Rams will not do it; a whole World will not be taken in Exchange, Mat. 16. 26. and ⟨p. 24⟩as man is not able to satisfy, so till satisfaction be made, the Law cannot, will not give him an acquittance; if once it lays the Debtor in Prison, there is no hope of a Goal delivery till the last mite be paid, Luk. 11. ult.
2. The severity of the Law: It is an unchangeable Rule of Gods proceeding with the reasonable Creature, it is that for obedience unto which (and thereby to glorifie God) Man was made, and by which he must be judged at the last: Now this Law will have both Obedience and Satisfaction, or else it will never acquit and justifie us: but man can do neither of these. That he cannot legally obey, hath been already made to appear; but the Law will not release him from that obligation: neither yet can he make satisfaction for his defaults; none of Adams race can clear themselves from having been Law-breakers, and they have no recompence to make for the wrongs done to it by this transgression of theirs; thousands of Rams will not do it; a whole World will not be taken in Exchange, Mat. 16. 26. and ⟨p. 24⟩as man is not able to satisfie, so till satisfaction be made, the Law cannot, will not give him an acquittance; if once it layes the Debtor in Prison, there is no hope of a Goal delivery till the last mite be paid,