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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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3. Justification by the Righteousness and Obedience of Christ, is a Doctrine that the Scripture teaches in very full Terms. Rom. 5. 18, 19. By the Righteousness of one, the free Gift came upon all Men unto Justification of Life. For as by one Man's Disobedience many were made Sinners, so by the Obedience of one shall many be made Righteous. Here in one verse we are told that we have Justification by Christ's Righteousness; and that there might be no room to understand the Righteousness spoken of merely of Christ's Atonement, by his suffering the Penalty, in the next verse, 'tis put in other Terms, and asserted that 'tis by Christ's Obedience that we are made Righteous. 'Tis scarce possible any Thing should be more full and determined: The Terms, taken singly, are such as do fix their own meaning, and taken together, they fix the meaning of each other: The Words show that we are justified by that Righteousness of Christ, that consists in his Obedience, and that we are made righteous or justified ⟨p. 65⟩by that Obedience of his, that is his Righteousness, or moral Goodness before God.
3. Justification by the Righteousness and Obedience of Christ, is a Doctrine that the Scripture teaches in very full Terms. Rom. 5. 18, 19. By the Righteousness of one, the free Gift came upon all Men unto Justification of Life. For as by one Man's Disobedience many were made Sinners, so by the Obedience of one shall many be made Righteous. Here in one verse we are told that we have Justification by Christ's Righteousness; and that there might be no room to understand the Righteousness spoken of meerly of Christ's Atonement, by his suffering the Penalty, in the next verse, 'tis put in other Terms, and asserted that 'tis by Christ's Obedience that we are made Righteous. 'Tis scarce possible any Thing should be more full and determined: The Terms, taken singly, are such as do fix their own meaning, and taken together, they fix the meaning of each other: The Words shew that we are justified by that Righteousness of Christ, that consists in his Obedience, and that we are made righteous or justified ⟨p. 65⟩by that Obedience of his, that is his Righteousness, or moral Goodness before God.