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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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2. This Relation or Union to Christ, whereby Christians are said to be in Christ, (whatever it be,) is the Ground of their Right to his Benefits. This needs no Proof; the Reason of the Thing, at first Blush, demonstrates it: but yet 'tis exceeding evident also by Scripture, 1 John 5. 12. He that hath the Son hath Life, and he that hath not the Son hath not Life. 1 Cor. 1. 3. Of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us—Righteousness. First we must be in him, and then he will be made Righteousness, or Justification to us. Eph. 1. 6. Who hath made us accepted ⟨p. 14⟩in the Beloved. Our being in him is the Ground of our being accepted. So it is in those Unions which the Holy Ghost has thought fit to compare this Union to; the Union of the Members of the Body with the Head is the Ground of their partaking of the Life of the Head; 'tis the Union of the Branches to the Stock, which is the Ground of their partaking of the Sap & Life of the Stock; 'tis the Relation of the Wife to the Husband, that is the Ground of her joint Interest in his Estate, they are looked upon, in several Respects, as one in Law: so there is a legal Union between Christ and true Christians; so that (as all except Socinians allow,) one, in some respects, is accepted for the other, by the supreme Judge.
2. This Relation or Union to Christ, whereby Christians are said to be in Christ, (whatever it be,) is the Ground of their Right to his Benefits. This needs no Proof; the Reason of the Thing, at first Blush, demonstrates it: but yet 'tis exceeding evident also by Scripture, 1 John 5. 12. He that hath the Son hath Life, and he that hath not the Son hath not Life. 1 Cor. 1. 3. Of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us—Righteousness. First we must be in him, and then he will be made Righteousness, or Justification to us. Eph. 1. 6