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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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When it is said that we are not justified by any Righteousness or Goodness of our own, what is meant is that it is not out of Respect to the Excellent or Goodness of any Qualifications, or Acts, in us whatsoever, that God judges it meet that this Benefit of Christ should be ours; and it is not, in any wise, on Account of any Excellency, or Value that there […] in Faith, that it appears, in the Sight of God, a me•• Thing, that […] •hat believes should have this Benefit […] Christ assigned to him, but purely from the Relation Faith has to the Person in whom this Benefit is to be had, or as it unites to that Mediator, in and by whom we are justified. Here for the greater Clearness, I would particularly explain my self under several Propositions.
When it is said that we are not justified by any Righteousness or Goodness of our own, what is meant is that it is not out of Respect to the Excellent or Goodness of any Qualifications, or Acts, in us whatsoever, that God judges it meet that this Benefit of Christ should be ours; and it is not, in any wise, on Account of any Excellency, or Value that there 〈…〉 in Faith, that it appears, in the Sight of God, a me•• Thing, that 〈…〉 •hat believes should have this Benefit 〈…〉 Christ assigned to him, but purely from the Relation Faith has to the Person in whom this Benefit is to be had, or as it unites to that Mediator, in and by whom we are justified. Here for the greater Clearness, I would particularly explain my self under several Propositions.
1. It is certain that there is some Union or Relation that the People of Christ, stand in to him, that is expressed in Scripture, from time to time, by being in Christ, and is represented frequently by those Metaphors of being Members of Christ, or being united to him as Members to the Head, and Branches to the Stock,