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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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and therefore when it is said that we are Justified BY Faith, what else can be understood by it than that Faith is that BY which we are rendered approvable, fitly so, and indeed, as the Case stands, proper Subjects of this Benefit?
and therefore when it is said that we are Justified BY Faith, what else can be understood by it than that Faith is that BY which we are render'd approvable, fitly so, and indeed, as the Case stands, proper Subjects of this Benefit?
This is something different from Faith's being the Condition of Justification, only so as to be inseparably connected with Justification; so are many other Things besides Faith, and yet nothing in us, but Faith, renders it meet that we should have Justification assigned to us; as I shall presently show how, in answer to the next Enquiry, viz.
This is something different from Faith's being the Condition of Justification, only so as to be inseparably connected with Justification; so are many other Things besides Faith, and yet nothing in us, but Faith, renders it meet that we should have Justification assigned to us; as I shall presently shew how, in answer to the next Enq••ry, viz.
2. How this is said to be by Faith alone, without any manner of Virtue or Goodness of our own. This may seem to some to be attended with two difficulties, viz. How this can be said to be by Faith alone, without any Virtue or Goodness of ours, when Faith it self is a Virtue, and one Part of our Goodness, and is not only some manner of goodness of ours, but is a very excellent Qualification, and one chief Part of the inherent Holiness of a Christian? And if it be a part of our inherent Goodness or Excellency, (whether it be this Part or any other,) that renders it a condecent or congruous Thing that we should have this Benefit of Christ assigned to us, what this is less than what they mean that talk of a Merit of Congruity? And moreover, if this Part of our Christian Holiness qualifies us in the Sight of