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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. In the third Chapter of Romans, our having been guilty of Breaches of the moral Law, is an Argument that the Apostle uses why we cannot be justified by the Works of the Law; Beginning with the 9th v There he proves out of the Old Testament, that all are under Sin; There is none righteous, no not one•. Their Throat is an open Sepulchre: With their Tongues they have used deceit: Their Mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; and their Feet swift to shed Blood. And so he▪ goes on mentioning only those Things that are Breaches of the moral Law, and then when he has done, his Conclusion is, in the ⟨p. 34⟩19th, and 20th ver. Now we know that whatsoever Things the Law saith, it saith to them that are under the Law, that every Mouth may be stopped, and all the World may become guilty before God. Therefore by the Deeds of the Law, shall no Flesh be justified in his Sight. This is most evidently his Argument, because all had sinned, (as it was said in the 9th ver.) and been guilty of those Breaches of the moral Law, that he had mentioned, (and it is repeated over again, afterward ver. 23.) For all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God. Therefore none at all can be justified by the Deeds of the Law: Now if the Apostle meant only that we are not justified by the Deeds of the ceremonial Law, what kind of arguing would that be, Their Mouth is full of• cursing and bitterness, their Feet are swift to shed Blood, therefore, They can't be justified by the Deeds of the Mosaic Administration▪ They are guilty of the Breaches of the moral Law, and therefore they can't be justified by the Deeds of the ceremonial Law? Doubtless the Apostle's Argument is, that the very same Law that they have broken and sinned against, can never justify 'em as Observers of it, because every Law don't justify, but necessarily condemns it's Violators: And therefore our Breaches of the moral Law, argue no more, than that we can't be justified by that Law that we have broken.
2. In the third Chapter of Romans, our having been guilty of Breaches of the moral Law, is an Argument that the Apostle uses why we cannot be justified by the Works of the Law; Beginning with the 9th v There he proves out of the Old Testament, that all are under Sin; There is none righteous, no not one. Their Throat is an open Sepulchre: With their Tongues they have used deceit: Their Mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; and their Feet swift to shed Blood. And so he goes on mentioning only those Things that are Breaches of the moral Law, and then when he has done, his Conclusion is, in the