Twenty-eight years
And this is the doctrine which I have constantly believed and taught for nearly twenty-eight years. This I published to all the world in the year 1738, and ten or twelve times since, in those words, and many others to the same effect, extracted from the homilies of our church. "These things must necessarily go together in our justification. On God's part, his great mercy and grace. On Christ's part, the satisfaction of God's justice. And on our part, faith in the merits of Christ. So that the grace of God does not shut out the righteousness of God in our justification, but only shuts out the righteousness of man, as to deserving our justification."
1771 text
6. And this is the doctrine, which I have constantly believed and taught, for near eight and twenty years. This I published to all the world in the year 1738, and ten or twelve times since, in those words, and many others to the same effect, extracted from the homilies of our church. “These things must necessarily go together in our justification, upon God’s part his great mercy and grace, upon Christ’s part, the satisfaction of God’s justice, and on our part, faith in the merits of Christ. So that the grace of God doth not shut out the righteousness of God in our justification, but only shutteth out the righteousness of man, as to deserving our justification.”
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 20 in the 1771 Works. Jeremiah 23:6.
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