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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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One would wonder what Arminians mean by Christ's Merits: They talk of Christ's Merits as much as any Body, and yet deny the Imputation of Christ's positive Righteousness: What should there be that any one should merit or deserve any Thing by, besides Righteousness or Goodness? If any Thing that Christ did or suffered, merited or deserved any Thing▪ it was by Virtue of the Goodness, or Righteousness, or Holiness of it: If Christ's Sufferings and Death merited Heaven, it must be because there was an excellent Righteousness, and transcendent moral Goodness in that Act of laying down his Life: And if by that excellent Righteousness he merited Heaven for us, then surely that Righteousness is reckoned to our Account, that we have the Benefit of it, or which is the same Thing, it is imputed to us.
One would wonder what Arminians mean by Christ's Merits: They talk of Christ's Merits as much as any Body, and yet deny the Imputation of Christ's positive Righteousness: What should there be that any one should merit or deserve any Thing by, besides Righteousness or Goodness? If any Thing that Christ did or suffered, merited or deserved any Thing▪ it was by Virtue of the Goodness, or Righteousness, or Holiness of it: If Christ's Sufferings and Death merited Heaven, it must be because there was an excellent Righteousness, and transcendent moral Goodness in that Act of laying down his Life: And if by that excellent Righteousness he merited Heaven for us, then surely that Righteousness is reckon'd to our Account, that we have the Benefit of it, or which is the same Thing, it is imputed to us.
Thus I hope I have made it evident, that the Righteousness of Christ is indeed imputed to us. I proceed now to the
Third, and last Thing under this Argument, That this Doctrine of the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness is utterly inconsistent with the Doctrine of our being