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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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Moreover, The Apostle Paul in the third Chapter of Philippians, tells us how earnestly he sought Justification by Faith, or to win Christ and obtain that Righteousness which was by the Faith of him, in what he did after his Conversion. Verses 8, 9 For whom I have suffered the loss of all Things, and do count them but, Dung that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having on mine own Righteousness, which is of the Law, but that which is through the Faith of Christ, the Righteousness which is of God by Faith. And in the two next Verses he expresses the same Thing in other Words, and tells us how •e went through Sufferings, and became conformable to Christ's Death, that he might be a Partaker with Christ in the Benefit of his Resurrection; which the same Apostle elsewhere teaches us, is especially Justification: Christ's Resurrection was his Justification; in this, he that was put to Death in the Fl•sh, was justified by the Spirit, and he that was delivered for our Offences, rose again for our Justification. And the Apostle tells us in the Verses that follow, in that third Chapter of Philippians, that he thus fought to attain the Righteousness which is through the Faith of Christ, and so to partake of the Benefit of his Resurrection, still, as tho' he had not already attained, but that he continued to follow after it.
Moreover, The Apostle Paul in the third Chapter of Philippians, tells us how earnestly he sought Justification by Faith, or to win Christ and obtain that Righteousness which was by the Faith of him, in what he did after his Conversion. Verses 8, 9 For whom I have suffered the loss of all Things, and do count them but, Dung that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having on mine own Righteousness, which is of the Law, but that which is through the Faith of Christ, the Righteousness which is of God by Faith. And in the two next Verses he expresses the same Thing in other Words, and tells us how •e went through Sufferings, and became conformable to Christ's Death, that he might be a Partaker with Christ in the Benefit of his Resurrection; which the same Apostle elsewhere teaches us, is especially Justification: Christ's Resurrection was his Justification; in this, he that was put to Death in the Fl•sh, was justified by the Spirit, and he that was delivered for our Offences, rose again for our Justification. And the Apostle tells us in the Verses that follow, in that third Chapter of Philippians, that he thus fought to attain the Righteousness which is through the Faith of Christ, and so to partake of the Benefit of his Resurrection, still, as tho' he had not already attain'd, but that he continued to follow after it.