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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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Secondly, To prove that the Righteousness of Christ is thus imputed.
1. There is the very same need of Christ's obeying the Law in our stead, in order to the Reward, as of his suffering the Penalty of the Law, in our stead, in order to our escaping the Penalty; and the same Reason why one should be accepted on our Account, as the other▪ There is the same need of one as the other, that the Law of God might be answered: One was as requisite to answer the Law as the other, This is certain, that that was the Reason why there was need that Christ suffer the Penalty for us, even that the Law might be answered; for this the Scripture plainly teaches: This is given as the Reason why Christ was made a curse for us, that the Law threatened a curse to us, Gal. 3, 10, 13. But the same Law that fixes the curse of God, as the consequent of not continuing in all Things written i• the Law to do them, (v. 10.) has as much fixed doing those Things as an antecedent of living in them, (as v. 1. the next Verse but one;) There is as much of a Co• nection established in one Case as in the other. The•• is therefore exactly the same need from the Law of perfect Obedience being fulfilled, in order to our obtaining the Reward, as there is of Death's being suffered, in order to our escaping the Punishment, or the same Necessity by the Law, of perfect Obedience preceding Life, as there is of Disobedience being succeeded by Death: The Law is without doubt, as much of an established Rule in one Case as in the other.
1. There is the very same need of Christ's obeying the Law in our stead, in order to the Reward, as of his suffering the Penalty of the Law, in our stead, in order to our escaping the Penalty; and the same Reason why one should be accepted on our Account, as the other▪ There is the same need of one as the other, that the Law of God might be answered: One was as requisite to answer the Law as the other, This is certain, that that was the Reason why there was need that Christ suffer the Penalty for us, even that the Law might be answered; for this the Scripture plainly teaches: This is given as the Reason why Christ was made a curse for us, that the Law threatned a curse to us,