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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.
4. Jesus Christ is to this and made our Sanctification. These two therefore are put together, 1 Cor. 1.30. Who is of God made to us, our Righteousness, our Sanctification: and they are evermore inseparable, wherever Christ is one he is also the other: he therefore not only came to save us from Hell, but from our Sins two; hence he is said to take them away, Joh. 1.29. Behold▪ the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world. And this is the reason rendered why he was called Jesus, Matt. 1.21. Thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his People from their sins. He is not our Sanctification by way of imputation, as he is our Righteousness, but as he is the Author of our Holiness in us, and the Subject in whom all those graces are laid up which are requisite for our Sanctification, as in a Treasury, from whom they are to derive unto us, that so we may be Sanctified by them; so that virtue proceeds from him to us for this end, hence that, Joh. 1.16. Of his fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. And what is this ⟨p. 29⟩Communicated unto us for, but that we may hereby be enabled again to perform true Obedience to the Law or Command of God, which we were before altogether incapable of doing? And this is by restoring of the Image of God again to us, which we had forfeited and lost in the Apostasy. This is called the new man, because it contains in it a whole body of grace; and it is said to be renewed after God, Eph. 4.24. Now if God had not designed to have Obedience to his Law paid him by those who are redeemed by Christ, this had not been necessary; the restoring of it then evidently declares what it is that he expects of us, Viz. that we should regulate our lives according to this principle.
4. Jesus Christ is to this and made our Sanctification. These two therefore are put together,