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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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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 Pharis•e, 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.—
But we need not go to the Writings of other Penmen of the Scripture; but if we will allow the Apostle Paul to be his own Interpreter, he when he speaks of our own Righteousness as that which we are not justified or saved by, don't mean only a ceremonial Righteousness, nor does he only intend a Way of Religion, and serving God▪ of our own choosing and fixing on, without divine Warrant or Prescription; but by our own Righteousness he means the same as a Righteousness of our own doing, whether it be a Service or Righteousness of God's prescribing, or our own unwarranted performing: Let it be an Obedience to the ceremonial Law, or a Gospel Obedience, or what it will, if it be a Righteousness of our own doing, it is excluded by the Apostle in this Affair, as is evident by Titus 3, 5