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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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Fourth Argument for the Truth of the Doctrine, That to suppose that a Man is justified by his own Virtue or Obedience, derogates from the Honour of the Mediator, and ascribes that to Man's Virtue, that belongs only to the Righteousness of Christ: It puts Man in Christ stead, and makes him his own Saviour, in a respect, in which Christ only is his Saviour: And so 'tis a Doctrine contrary to the Nature, and Design of the Gospel which is to abase Man, and to ascribe all the Glory of our Salvation to Christ the Redeemer.—It is inconsistent with the Doctrine of the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness, which is a Gospel Doctrine.
Fourth Argument for the Truth of the Doctrine, That to suppose that a Man is justified by his own Vertue or Obedience, derogates from the Honour of the Mediator, and ascribes that to Man's Vertue, that belongs only to the Righteousness of Christ: It puts Man in Christ stead, and makes him his own Saviour, in a respect, in which Christ only is his Saviour: And so 'tis a Doctrine contrary to the Nature, and Design of the Gospel which is to abase Man, and to ascribe all the Glory of our Salvation to Christ the Redeemer.—It is inconsistent with the Doctrine of the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness, which is a Gospel Doctrine.
Here I would 1. Explain what we mean by the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness. 2. Prove the Thing intended by it to be true. 3. Show that this Doctrine is utterly inconsistent with the Doctrine of our being justified by our own Virtue, or sincere Obedience.
Here I would 1. Explain what we mean by the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness. 2. Prove the Thing intended by it to be true. 3. Shew that this Doctrine is utterly inconsistent with the Doctrine of our being justified by our own Vertue, or sincere Obedience.