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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 Divine Nature which assumed the Humane into his Person, put an infinite virtue, and value into his Obedience; for the humane nature losing its Personality in the person of the Son of God, hereupon all the Righteousness which he performed is accounted (and that properly) the Righteousness of God, and that is one reason why it is so called in our Text, and 2 Cor 5. 21. it is not of God only ⟨p. 33⟩be ordained it, nor yet because he did accept it of his hands, but mainly because the person that did it was God: upon this score also is his blood called the blood of God, Acts 20. 28. The Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood, and hereby it came to pass that the Obedience of Christ was of greater worth by far, than the Obedience of all the world could have been, because he was a Divine Person that did it: and from hence it came to pass that there was enough in it to merit for a great many, even a whole world, the blood of Redemption is therefore called precious blood, 1 Pet. 1. 18. and there we have found a valuable price to merit, that which hath in it enough to answer for the Justification of Sinners, but still this added to the former yet falls short of the actual meriting of it, there is yet something more wanting, but that also is supplied by Christ, hence consider.
2. The Divine Nature which assumed the Humane into his Person, put an infinite vertue, and value into his Obedience; for the humane nature losing its Personality in the person of the Son of God, hereupon all the Righteousness which he performed is accounted (and that properly) the Righteousness of God, and that is one reason why it is so called in our Text, and 2 Cor 5. 21. it is not of God only ⟨p. 33⟩be ordaned it, nor yet because he did accept it of his hands, but mainly because the person that did it was God: upon this score also is his blood called the blood of God, Acts 20. 28. The Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood, and hereby it came to pass that the Obedience of Christ was of greater worth by far, than the Obedience of all the world could have been, because he was a Divine Person that did it: and from hence it came to pass that there was enough in it to merit for a great many, even a whole world, the blood of Redemption is therefore called precious blood,