The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

§. 1. The General Nature of Justification. State of the Person to be justified antecedently thereunto. Rom. 4.5. Chap. 3.19. Chap. 1.32. Gal. 3.10. Joh. 3.18, 36. Gal. 3.22. The sole Inquiry on that state. Whether it be any thing that is our own inherently, or what is only imputed unto us, that we are to trust unto for our Acceptance with God. The sum of this Inquiry. The proper ends of Teaching and Learning the Doctrine of Justification. Things to be avoided therein. Pag. 1. §. 2. A due consideration of God, the Judge of all, necessary unto the right stating and apprehension of the Doctrine of Justification, Rom. 8.33. Isa. 43.25.45.23. Psal. 145.2. Rom. 3.20. What thoughts will be ingenerated hereby in the minds of Men. Isai. 33.14. Mic. 6.7. Isa. 6.5. The Plea of Job against his friends, and before God not the same. Job 40.3, 4, 5. Chap. 42.4, 5, 6. Directions for visiting the sick given of old. Testimonies of Jerome and Ambrose. Sense of Men in their Prayers. Dan. 9.7, 18. Psal. 143.2.130.3, 4. Paraphrase of Austine on that place. Prayer of Pelagius. Public Liturgies. Pag. 8. §. 3. A due sense of our Apostasy from God, the Depravation of our Nature thereby, with the power and guilt of Sin, the holiness of Law, necessary unto a right understanding of the Doctrine of Justification. Method of the Apostle to this purpose,