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Discourses on various important subjects, nearly concerning the great affair of the soul's eternal…
Discourses on various important subjects, nearly concerning the great affair of the soul's eternal salvation, viz. I. Justification by faith alone. II. Pressing into the Kingdom of God. III. Ruth's resolution. IV. The justice of God in the damnation of sinners. V. The excellency of Jesus Christ. : Delivered at Northampton, chiefly at the time of the late wonderful pouring out of the spirit of God there. / By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the Church of Christ in Northampton. ; [Three lines from Deuteronomy]
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland and T. Green, 1738
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v Not for thy Righteousness, for thou art a stiffnecked People. Their stiffneckedness was their moral Wickedness, Obstinacy, and perverseness of Heart: By Righteousness, therefore, on the contrary, is meant their moral Virtue, and rectitude of Heart, and Life.—This is what I would argue from hence, That the Expression of our own Righteousness, when used in Scripture, with Relation to the favour of God, and when we are warned against looking upon it as that by which that Favour, or the Fruits of it are obtained, don't signify only a ceremonial Righteousness, but all manner of Goodness of our own.
v Not for thy Righteousness, for thou art a stiffnecked People. Their stiffneckedness was their moral Wickedness, Obstinacy, and perverseness of Heart: By Righteousness, therefore, on the contrary, is meant their moral Vertue, and rectitude of Heart, and Life.—This is what I would argue from hence, That the Expression of our own Righteousness, when used in Scripture, with Relation to the favour of God, and when we are warned against looking upon it as that by which that Favour, or the Fruits of it are obtained, don't signify only a ceremonial Righteousness, but all manner of Goodness of our own.
The Jews also in the New Testament are condemned for trusting in their own Righteousness in this Sense; Luke 18. 9 &c.—And he spake this Parable unto certain that trusted in themselves that they were Righteous.—This intends chiefly a moral Righteousness, as appears by the Parable it self, in which we have an Account of the Prayer of the Pharisee, wherein the Things that he mentions, as what he trusts in, are chiefly moral Qualifications and Performances, viz. That he was not an Extortioner, unjust, nor an Adulterer, &c.—
The Jews also in the New Testament are condemned for trusting in their own Righteousness in this Sense; Luke 18. 9 &c.—And he spake this Parable unto certain that trusted in themselves that they were Righteous.—This intends chiefly a moral Righteousness, as appears by the Parable it self, in which we have an Account of the Prayer of the Pharise, wherein the Things that he mentions, as what he trusts in, are chiefly moral Qualifications and Performances, viz. That he was not an Extortioner, unjust, nor an Adulterer, &c.—