A confession of faith made by common consent of divers reformed churches beyond the…A confession of fayth made by common consent of diuers reformed churches beyonde the…

TO Justify (according to the ¹Apostles meaning, in his disputation of Justification) is to forgive since, to absolve from the fault, and punishment also dew for the same, to receive into favour, and to pronounce just: for the Apostle to the Romans writeth: It is God that justifieth, who is it that condemneth: To justify and to condemn are here put as contraries. In Acts xiij. he sayeth: By Christ remission of sin is preached unto us, and from all things, from the which ye could not by the law of God be justified, by him every one that believeth, is justified. We also read in the law, and in the Prophets thus: If any strife arise ⟨p. 41⟩between men, and they come unto ²judgement, let the Judges judge them but let the righteous be justified, and ³the wicked condemned: And Isaiah. v. Woe be to them that justify the impious man, for any bribe. It is most certain, that we all are by nature impious sinners, and before the Judgement seat of God, convicted of impiety, and guilty of death: howbeit we believe, that we are justified, that is to say, pardoned of our since, and delivered from death by God (who is our Judge) and that only for Christ his sake, without any respect of our own merits. For what can be more plain then that, which Paul sayeth: All ⁴have sinned, and are deprived of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace, and through the redemption, that is in Christ Jesus.

TO Iustifie (according to the ¹Apostles meanyng, in his disputacion of Iustificaciō) is to forgiue synnes, to absolue from the faulte, and punishment also dewe for the same, to receiue into fauour, and to pronounce iuste: for the Apostle to the Romanes writeth: It is God that iustifieth, who is it that condemneth: To iustifie and to condemne are here putte as contraries. In Actes xiij. he saieth: By Christe remission of synne is preached vnto vs, and from all thynges, from the whiche ye could not by the lawe of God be iustified, by hym euery one that beleueth, is iustified. We also reade in the lawe, and in the Prophetes thus: If any strief arise