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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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From these Things we may learn in what manner Faith is the only Condition of Justification and Salvation; for tho' it be not the only Condition, so as alone truly to have the Place of a Condition in an hypothetical Proposition, in which Justification and Salvation are the Consequent, yet it is the Condition of Justification in a ⟨p. 20⟩Manner peculiar to it, and so that nothing else has a parallel Influence with it; because Faith includes the whole Act of Unition to Christ as a Saviour: The entire active uniting of the Soul, or the whole of what is called coming to Christ, and receiving of him, is called Faith in Scripture; and however other Things may be no less excellent than Faith, yet 'tis not the nature of any other Graces or Virtues directly to close with Christ as a Mediator, any further than they enter into the Constitution of justifying Faith, and do belong to its Nature.
From these Things we may learn in what manner Faith is the only Condition of Justification and Salvation; for tho' it be not the only Condition, so as alone truly to have the Place of a Condition in an hypothetical Proposition, in which Justification and Salvation are the Consequent, yet it is the Condition of Justification in a ⟨p. 20⟩Manner peculiar to it, and so that nothing else has a parallel Influence with it; because Faith includes the whole Act of Unition to Christ as a Saviour: The entire active uniting of the Soul, or the whole of what is called coming to Christ, and receiving of him, is called Faith in Scripture; and however other Things may be no less excellent than Faith, yet 'tis not the nature of any other Graces or Vertues directly to close with Christ as a Mediator, any further than they enter into the Constitution of justifying Faith, and do belong to its Nature.
Thus I have explained my meaning, in asserting it as a Doctrine of the Gospel, that we are justified by Faith only, without any manner of Goodness of our own.