The sermon on justification
In the sermon on justification, published nineteen years ago, and again seven or eight years ago, I express the same thing in these words. "In consideration of this, that the Son of God has tasted death for every man (Hebrews 2:9), God has now reconciled the world to himself, not imputing to them their former trespasses (2 Corinthians 5:19). So that for the sake of his well-beloved Son, of what he has done and suffered for us, God now vouchsafes, on one only condition, which he himself also enables us to perform, both to remit the punishment due to our sins, to reinstate us in his favor, and to restore our dead souls to spiritual life, as the earnest of life eternal."
1771 text
8. In the sermon on justification published nineteen, and again seven or eight years ago, I express the same thing in these words, p. 87. “In consideration of this, that the Son of God hath tasted death for every man, God hath now reconciled the world unto himself, not imputing to them their former trespasses. So that for the sake of his well-beloved Son, of what he hath done and suffered for us, God now vouchsafes on one only condition (which himself also enables us to perform) both to remit the punishment due to our sins, to re-instate us in his favour, and to restore our dead souls to spiritual life, as the earnest of life eternal.”
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Sermon 20 in the 1771 Works. Jeremiah 23:6.
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