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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. Negatively, It doth not proceed from the Righteousness of Christ barely considered as the Obedience of a mere man to the Moral Law: For,
1. Negatively, It doth not proceed from the Righteousness of Christ barely considered as the Obedience of a meer man to the Moral Law: For,
1. If Christ's had been a mere man, or only an humane person, he had owed all his active Obedience to the Law for himself, or upon his own account. The law of nature obliged every mere Son of Adam to full, perfect constant obedience to all the commands of God and when he had done all, he had done but his duty, and could have challenged the Covenant reward for none but himself: It is but a just debt which every man owes to God, to love him with all his heart, Soul, strength and might, and his neighbour as himself, Mat. 22, 37, 38. and if Christs humane nature had been a person by it self, this had been his case, he would have had so much work to do upon his own score, that he would have had no room to have done any thing for any else besides himself.
1. If Chirsts had been a meer man, or onely an humane person, he had owed all his active Obedience to the Law for himself, or upon his own account. The law of nature obliged every meer Son of Adam to full, perfect constant obedience to all the commands of God and when he had done all, he had done but his duty, and could have challenged the Covenant reward for none but himself: It is but a just debt which every man ows to God, to love him with all his heart, Soul, strength and might, and his neighbour as himself, Mat. 22, 37, 38. and if Christs humane nature had been a person by it self, this had been his case, he would have had so much work to do upon his own score, that he would have had no room to have done any thing for any else besides himself.