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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 thus it is that Faith justifies, or gives an Interest in Christ's Satisfaction and Merits, and a Right to the Benefits procured thereby, viz. as it thus makes Christ and the Believer one in the Acceptance of the supreme Judge. 'Tis by Faith that we have a Title to eternal Life, because, tis by Faith that we have the Son of God, by whom Life is. The Apostle John in those Words, 1 John 5. 12. He that hath the son hath Life, seems evidently to have respect to those Words of Christ that he gives an Account of in his Gospel, Chap. 3. 36. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting Life, and he that believeth not the Son shall not see Life. And in the same Places that the Scripture speaks of Faith as the Soul's receiving, or coming to Christ, it also speaks of this receiving, or coming to, or joining with Christ, as the Ground of an Interest in his Benefits: To as many as received him, to them gave he Power to become the Sons of God. Ye will not come unto me that ye might have Life, And there is a wide Difference between its being looked on suitable that Christ's Satisfaction and Merits should be theirs that believe, because an Interest in that Satisfaction and Merit is but a fit Reward of Faith, or a suitable Testimony of God's Respect to the Amiableness and Excellency of that Grace, and it's only being looked on suitable that Christ's Satisfaction and Merits should be theirs, because Christ and they are so united, that in the Eyes of the Judge they may suitably be looked upon, and taken, as one.
And thus it is that Faith justifies, or gives an Interest in Christ's Satisfaction and Merits, and a Right to the Benefits procured thereby, viz. as it thus makes Christ and the Believer one in the Acceptance of the supreme Judge. 'Tis by Faith that we have a Title to eternal Life, because, tis by Faith that we have the Son of God, by whom Life is. The Apostle John in those Words, 1 John 5. 12. He that hath the son hath Life, seems evidently to have respect to those Words of Christ that he gives an Account of in his Gospel, Chap. 3. 36. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting Life, and he that believeth not the Son shall not see Life. And in the same Places that the Scripture speaks of Faith as the Soul's receiving, or coming to Christ, it also speaks of this receiving, or coming to, or joyning with Christ, as the Ground of an Interest in his Benefits: To as many as received him, to them gave he Power to become the Sons of God. Ye will not come unto me that ye might have Life, And there is a wide Difference between its being looked on suitable that Christ's Satisfaction and Merits should be theirs that believe, because an Interest in that Satisfaction and Merit is but a fit Reward of Faith, or a suitable Testimony of God's Respect to the Amiableness and Excellency of that Grace, and it's only being looked on suitable that Christ's Satisfaction and Merits should be theirs, because Christ and they are so united, that in the Eyes of the Judge they may suitably be looked upon, and taken, as one.