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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. Neither could the passive obedience of a mere man be of virtue sufficient to satisfy for the offences of many. The eternity of sinners sufferings is a full proof for this, for eternal death is not a distinct sort of death contained in the curse, but only an accidental continuance of the other; for if Justice could take satisfaction of a mere creature in any measure of time, there would be good ground of hope that the damned might a• length have a Jail. Delivery; for Justice requires no more then satisfaction, though it will have that to the utmost, Luke 12 ult. and because it cannot take it in measure upon a finite creature, it is necessarily compensated by the duration; so that if Christ had been a mere man, though he should have died for our offences, yet he could never have risen again for our Justification, but must have been detained an eternal Prisoner, and never have crossed the accounts, or taken out the acquittance for his people.
2. Neither could the passive obedience of a meer man be of virtue sufficient to satisfie for the offences of many. The eternity of sinners sufferings is a full proof for this, for eternal death is not a distinct sort of death contained in the curse, but only an accidental continuane of the other; for if Justice could take satisfaction of a meer creature in any measure of time, there would be good ground of hope that the damned might a• length have a Jayl. Delivery; for Justice requires no more then satisfaction, though it will have that to the utmost, Luke 12 ult. and because it cannot take it in measure upon a finite creature, it is necessarily compensated by the duration; so that if Christ had been a meer man, though he should have died for our offences, yet he could never have risen again for our Justification, but must have been detained an eternal Prisoner, and never have crost the accounts, or taken out the acquittance for his people.