A30136:42
A confession of my faith and a reason of my practice
A confession of my faith and a reason of my practice, or, With who, and who not, I can hold church-fellowship, or the communion of saints
London: printed for Francis Smith, 1672
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3. I believe, that the offer of this righteousness, as tendered in the Gospel, is to be received by faith: ⟨p. 21⟩we still in the very act of receiving it, judging our selves sinners in our selves. Oh wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death. I thank God through Jesus Christ. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. The Gospel is preached in all nations for the obedience of faith. Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ; whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation (a sacrifice to appease the displeasure of God) through faith in his blood. To declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past through the forbearance of God; to declare I say, at this time his righteousness; that he might be just, and the justifier of him that believeth on Jesus. Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins; And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which they could not ⟨p. 22⟩be justified by the law of Moses. Rom, 7.24. Act. 16.31. Rom 3.24.25. Act. 13.38, 39.
3. I believe, that the offer of this righteousness, as tendered in the Gospell, is to be received by faith: ⟨p. 21⟩we still in the very act of receiving it, judging our selves sinners in our selves. Oh wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death. I thank God through Jesus Christ. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. The Gospel is preached in all nations for the obedience of faith. Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ; whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation (a sacrifice to appease the displeasure of God) through faith in his blood. To declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past through the forbearance of God; to declare I say, at this time his righteousness; that he might be just, and the justifyer of him that believeth on Jesus. Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins; And by him all that believe are justifyed from all things, from which they could not