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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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Therefore when the Apostle argues that by the Deeds of the Law no Flesh living shall be justified, because by the Law is the knowledge of Sin, his Argument proves, (unless he was mistaken as to the force of his Argument,) that we can't be justified by the Deeds of the Moral Law.
Therefore when the Apostle argues that by the Deeds of the Law no Flesh living shall be justifyed, because by the Law is the knowledge of Sin, his Argument proves, (unless he was mistaken as to the force of his Argument,) that we can't be justifyed by the Deeds of the Moral Law.
5. 'Tis evident that the Apostle don't mean only the ceremonial Law, because he gives this Reason why we have Righteousness, and a Title to the Privilege of God's Children, not by the Law, but by Faith, that the Law worketh Wrath, Rom. 4. 13, 14, 15, 16. For the promise that he should be the Heir of the World, was not to Abraham, or to his Seed through the Law, but through the Righteousness of Faith: For if they which are of the Law be Heirs, Faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: Because the Law worketh Wrath; for where no Law is there is no Transgression. Therefore it is of Faith that it might be by Grace. Now the way in which the Law works Wrath, by the Apostles own Account, in the Reason he himself annexes, is by forbidding Sin, and aggravating the Guilt of the Transgression; for, says he, where no Law is there is Transgression: And so, Chap 7 13. That Sin by the Commandment might become exceeding sinful.—If therefore this Reason of the Apostle be good, it is much stronger against Justification by the moral Law, than the ceremonial Law; for 'tis by Transgressions of th• moral Law chiefly that there comes Wrath; for they are most strictly forbidden, and most terribly threatened.
5. 'Tis evident that the Apostle don't mean only the ceremonial Law, because he gives this Reason why we have Righteousness, and a Title to the Privilege of God's Children, not by the Law, but by Faith, that the Law worketh Wrath,