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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 person that did all this; and that was no other then the Eternal Son of God in our nature. If it had been any other kind of person, it would have yielded us no comfort; for what if his Obedience had been perfect; yet if not extensive, what advantage could there have accrued unto us from it? but when we look upon it as performed by such an one, that renders it not only right for the kind, but also valuable or of sufficient worth to answer the end for which it was done, and that will be evident if we consider what each nature contributed to it, and put both together; For,
1. The Humane Nature which was assumed by the Son of God, made him one answerable to the Law. The Covenant was made with man, the Obedience due to it was required of man; and therefore it must be a man that must do and die; no other kind of being, no not an Angel, would have sufficed or answered the Covenant, the Son of God ⟨p. 32⟩therefore became a man, assumed a true humane body, and a true reasonable soul, was the Son of David; the word was made flesh, John 1. 14. and by this way he was fitted to be under the Law, and responsible to it, upon our account, and therefore the Apostle puts them together as things inseparable. Gal. 4. 4. made of a woman, made under the Law for as if he had been a mere humane person he could not have sustained the place of a surety for us, so except he had taken out humane nature, he could not have done the work of a surety upon our account Paul therefore puts a great deal of weight up on this consideration, Heb 2. 16. for verily be took not on him the nature of Angels, but he took on him the seed of Abraham: we must therefore study the Incarnation of Christ if we would be clear in the nature of his merits.
1. The Humane Nature which was assumed by the Son of God, made him one answerable to the Law. The Covenant was made with man, the Obedience due to it was required of man; and therefore it must be a man that must do and die; no other kind of being, no not an Angel, would have sufficed or answered the Covenant, the Son of God