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Walking with God, the great duty and privilege of true Christians. In two sermons,…Walking with God, the great duty and priviledge of true Christians. In two sermons,…
Walking with God, the great duty and privilege of true Christians. In two sermons, preached on the lecture, in the year 1700. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Four lines from Micah]Walking with God, the great duty and priviledge of true Christians. In two sermons, preached on the lecture, in the year 1700. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Four lines from Micah]
Boston: printed by B. Green, 1701
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5. This imperfect Obedience, when sincere, is rendered acceptable to God through Christ. God, out of Christ, is a severe Judge, and condemns men for the least defect in what they do: whereas believers have hope of acceptance, notwithstanding they find so much of a body of death mixing with their duties: and whence is this? not because God likes sin in his own, when he cannot endure it in others; his Holiness forbids that: But it is, because he looks upon them in Christ, and having covered them under the robe of his Righteousness, he will not see, so as to judge them for their frailties, according to, Numb. 23.21. He hath seen no iniquity in Jacob, nor perverseness in Israel; but we have all our acceptance in the beloved, Eph. 1.6.
5. This imperfect Obedience, when sincere, is rendred acceptable to God through Christ. God, out of Christ, is a severe Judge, and condemns men for the least defect in what they do: whereas believers have hope of acceptance, notwithstanding they find so much of a body of death mixing with their duties: and whence is this? not because God likes sin in his own, when he cannot endure it in others; his Holiness forbids that: But it is, because he looks upon them in Christ, and having covered them under the robe of his Righteousness, he will not see, so as to judge them for their frailties, according to, Numb. 23.21. He hath seen no iniquity in Jacob, nor perverseness in Israel; but we have all our acceptance in the beloved, Eph. 1.6.
6 It is only by faith that we apply this perfect Righteousness of Christ by which we are thus accepted Hence that title is put upon it, Phil 3.9. The Righteousness which is of God by faith. If we confide in our own works, and expect to be accepted for the worthiness of them, God will despise us, and wholly reject our services as things which he can take no delight in: but when we utterly renounce our affiance in them, and resolve our whole hope, after all, into Christ, and him alone,