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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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So that we see that no Argument can be drawn from hence against the Doctrine of Justification by Faith alone. And there is that in the Nature of Repentance, which peculiarly tends to establish the Contrary of Justification by Works: for nothing so much renounces our own Worthiness and Excellency, as Repentance; the very Nature of it is to acknowledge our own utter Sinfulness and Unworthiness, and to renounce our own Goodness, and all Confidence in self; and so to trust in the Propitiation of the Mediator, and ascribe all the Glory of Forgiveness to him.
So that we see that no Argument can be drawn from hence against the Doctrine of Justification by Faith alone. And there is that in the Nature of Repentance, which peculiarly tends to establish the Contrary of Justification by Works: for nothing so much renounces our own Worthiness and Excellency, as Repentance; the very Nature of it is to acknowlege our own utter Sinfulness and Unworthiness, and to renounce our own Goodness, and all Confidence in self; and so to trust in the Propitiation of the Mediator, and ascribe all the Glory of Forgiveness to him.
Object. 6 The last Objection I shall mention, is that Paragraph in the second Chapter of James, where Persons are said expressly to be justified by Works; Verse 21. Was not Abraham our Father justified by Works? Verse 24. Ye see then how that by Works a Man is justified ⟨p. 115⟩and not by Faith only. Verse 25. Was not Raha• the Harlot justified by Works?
Object. 6 The last Objection I shall mention, is that Paragraph in the second Chapter of James, where Persons are said expresly to be justified by Works; Verse 21. Was not Abraham our Father justified by Works? Verse 24. Ye see then how that by Works a Man is justified ⟨p. 115⟩and not by Faith only. Verse 25. Was not Raha• the Harlot justified by Works?