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The Confession of Faith, and the Larger and Shorter Catechism
The confession of faith ; and, The larger and shorter catechism first agreed upon by the Westminster Assembly of Divines at Westminster, and now approved by the General Assembly of the kirk of Scotland to be a part of uniformity in religion between the kirks of Christ in the three kingdoms.
Edinbourg: printed by George Swinton and Thomas Brown, 1671
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Q. 73. How doth Faith justify a sinner in the sight of God?
Q. 73. How doth Faith justifie a sinner in the sight of God?
A. Faith justifies a sinner in the sight of God, not because of these other graces which do always accompany it, or of good works that are the ⟨p. 102⟩fruits of itq, nor as if the grace of Faith, or any act thereof, were imputed to him for his justificationr, but only as it is an instrument, by which he receiveth and applieth Christ & his righteousnesss.
A. Faith justifies a sinner in the sight of God, not because of these other graces which do alwaies accompany it, or of good works that are the ⟨p. 102⟩fruits of itq, nor as if the grace of Faith, or any act thereof, were imputed to him for his justificationr, but only as it is an instrument, by which he receiveth and applieth Christ & his righteousnesss.
- qGal. 3.11.
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