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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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6. 'Tis evident that when the Apostle says, we be•• justified by the Works of the Law, that he excludes all our own Virtue, Goodness, or Excellency, by that Reason that he gives for it, viz. That boasting might be excluded. Rom. 3. 26, 27, 28. To declare I say at this Time his Righteousness, that he might be just, and the justifier of him that believes in Jesus. Where is boas• ing then? It is excluded. By what Law? of Works Nay; but by the Law of Faith. Therefore, We conclude that a Man is justified by Faith without the Deeds of the Law, Eph. 2. 8. 9. For by Grace are we saved through ⟨p. 38⟩Faith; and that not of your selves, it is the Gift of God: Not of Works left any Man should boast.—Now what are Men wont to boast of, but what they esteem their own Goodness, or Excellency?—If we are not justified by Works of the ceremonial Law, yet how does that exclude boasting, as long as we are justified by our own Excellency, or Virtue and Goodness of our own, or Works of Righteousness which we have done?
6. 'Tis evident that when the Apostle says, we be•• justified by the Works of the Law, that he excludes all our own Vertue, Goodness, or Excellency, by that Reason that he gives for it, viz. That boasting might be excluded. Rom. 3. 26, 27, 28. To declare I say at this Time his Righteousness, that he might be just, and the justifier of him that believes in Jesus. Where is boas• ing then? It is excluded. By what Law? of Works Nay; but by the Law of Faith. Therefore, We conclude that a Man is justified by Faith without the Deeds of the Law, Eph. 2. 8. 9. For by Grace are we saved through ⟨p. 38⟩Faith; and that not of your selves, it is the Gift of God: Not of Works left any Man should boast.—Now what are Men wont to boast of, but what they esteem their own Goodness, or Excellency?—If we are not justified by Works of the ceremonial Law, yet how does that exclude boasting, as long as we are justified by our own Excellency, or Vertue and Goodness of our own, or Works of Righteousness which we have done?