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The law established by the Gospel or, A brief discourse, wherein is asserted and…
The law established by the Gospel or, A brief discourse, wherein is asserted and declared, the great honour which is put upon the law of God, in the Gospel way of justification be faith alone. Being the substance of a sermon preached on the lecture in Boston, September 20. 1694. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church there. ; [Three lines from Matthew]
printed by Bartholomew Green for Michael Perry, 1694
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Hence there is a double Righteousness requisite for the Justification of fallen man. There are two things requisite for the entire Justification of one who stands upon his trial, Viz. The acquittance of him from Condemnation, and the declaring of him to be a Righteous Person; that so he may both escape the misery he was in hazard of, and be invested with happiness according to the Law: and in the declaration of both these, the Law of Righteousness must be regarded, otherwise the sentence cannot be righteous; to this end there must be a perfect active Obedience to it, every way Commensurate to all the Commands of it, or else he is not righteous: and there must be a full Satisfaction given for all the Offence that hath been given by any Prevarication or departure from it, else he remains under the Condemnation of it: and if there be not both of these found for him, and belonging to him, before, ⟨p. 16⟩or in order to his being Justified, the Law is superseded, and trampled upon; it is neglected and so made void, which must not be, for so Justice would suffer, which it ought not to do. We shall therefore find both of these put together, Rom. 3.26. That he may be just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus Christ.
2. Hence there is a double Righteousness requisite for the Justification of fallen man. There are two things requisite for the entire Justification of one who stands upon his trial, Viz. The acquittance of him from Condemnation, and the declaring of him to be a Righteous Person; that so he may both escape the misery he was in hazard of, and be invested with happiness according to the Law: and in the declaration of both these, the Law of Righteousness must be regarded, otherwise the sentence cannot be righteous; to this end there must be a perfect active Obedience to it, every way Commensurate to all the Commands of it, or else he is not righteous: and there must be a full Satisfaction given for all the Offense that hath been given by any Prevarication or departure from it, else he remains under the Condemnation of it: and if there be not both of these found for him, and belonging to him, before, ⟨p. 16⟩or in order to his being Justified, the Law is superseded, and trampled upon; it is neglected and so made void, which must not be, for so Justice would suffer, which it ought not to do. We shall therefore find both of these put together,