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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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That the Apostle speaks of Works justifying only as a Sign, or Evidence, and in God's declarative Judgment, is further confirmed by Verse 21. Was not Abraham our Father justified by Works, when he had offered up Isaac his Son upon the Altar? Here the Apostle seems plainly to refer to that declarative Judgment of God, concerning Abraham▪ Sincerity, manifested to him, for the ⟨p. 121⟩Peace and Assurance of his own Conscience, after his offering up Isaac his Son on the Altar, that we have Account of, Gen 22. 12 Now I know that thou fearest God; seeing thou hast not withheld thy Son, thine only Son from me. But here it is plain, and expressed in the very Words of Justification or Approbation, that this Work of Abraham's, his offering up his Son on the Altar, justified him as an Evidence. When the Apostle James says we are justified by Works, he may, and ought to be understood in a Sense agreeable to the Instance he brings for the Proof of it: But Justification in that Instance appears by the Words of Justification themselves referred to, to be by Works as an Evidence And where this Instance of Abraham's Obedience is elsewhere mentioned, in the New Testament, 'tis mentioned as a Fruit and Evidence of his Faith. Heb. 11. 17. By Faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac, and he that had received the Promises, offered up his only begotten Son.
That the Apostle speaks of Works justifying only as a Sign, or Evidence, and in God's declarative Judgment, is further confirmed by Verse 21. Was not Abraham our Father justified by Works, when he had offered up Isaac his Son upon the Altar? Here the Apostle seems plainly to refer to that declarative Judgment of God, concerning Abraham▪ Sincerity, manifested to him, for the ⟨p. 121⟩Peace and Assurance of his own Conscience, after his offering up Isaac his Son on the Altar, that we have Account of, Gen 22. 12 Now I know that thou fearest God; seeing thou hast not withheld thy Son, thine only Son from me. But here it is plain, and expressed in the very Words of Justification or Approbation, that this Work of Abraham's, his offering up his Son on the Altar, justified him as an Evidence. When the Apostle James says we are justified by Works, he may, and ought to be understood in a Sense agreeble to the Instance he brings for the Proof of it: But Justification in that Instance appears by the Words of Justification themselves refer'd to, to be by Works as an Evidence And where this Instance of Abraham's Obedience is elsewhere mention'd, in the New Testament, 'tis mention'd as a Fruit and Evidence of his Faith.