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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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As there is the same need that Christ's Obedience should he reckoned to our Account, as that his Atonement should; so there is the same Reason why it should. As if Adam had persevered, and finished his course of Obedience, we should have received the Benefit of his Obedience, as much as now we have the Mischief of his Disobedience; so in like Manner, there is Reason that we should receive the Benefit of the second Adam's Obedience, as of his Atonement of our Disobedience: Believers are represented in Scripture as being so in Christ, as that they are legally one, or accepted as one, by the supreme Judge: Christ has assumed our Nature, and has so assumed all, in that Nature, that belong to him, into such an Union with himself, that he is become their Head, and has taken them to be his Members: And therefore what Christ has done in our Nature, whereby he did honour to the Law and Authority of God by his Acts, as well as the Reparation to the honour of the Law, by his sufferings, is reckoned to the believers Account; so as that the believer should be made happy, because it was so well, and worthily done by his Head, as well as freed from being miserable, because he has suffered for our ill and unworthy doing.
As there is the same need that Christ's Obedience should he reckon'd to our Account, as that his Atonement should; so there is the same Reason why it should. As if Adam had persevered, and finished his course of Obedience, we should have received the Benefit of his Obedience, as much as now we have the Mischief of his Disobedience; so in like Manner, there is Reason that we should receive the Benefit of the second Adam's Obedience, as of his Atonement of our Disobedience: Believers are represented in Scripture as being so in Christ, as that they are legally one, or accepted as one, by the supreme Judge: Christ has assumed our Nature, and has so assumed all, in that Nature, that belong to him, into such an Union with himself, that he is become their Head, and has taken them to be his Members: And therefore what Christ has done in our Nature, whereby he did honour to the Law and Authority of God by his Acts, as well as the Reparation to the honour of the Law, by his sufferings, is reckon'd to the believers Account; so as that the believer should be made happy, because it was so well, and worthily done by his Head, as well as freed from being miserable, because he has suffered for our ill and unworthy doing.