The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

So those unto whom the Apostle Peter proposed the Promise of the Gospel with the pardon of sin thereby as the Object of Gospel Faith, were pricked to the Heart upon the conviction of their sin, and cried what shall we do; Act. 2.37, 38, 39. Such also was the state of the Jailer unto whom the Apostle Paul proposed Salvation by Christ, as what he was to believe for his Deliverance, Act. 16.30, 31.

So those unto whom the Apostle Peter proposed the Promise of the Gospel with the pardon of sin thereby as the Object of Gospel Faith, were pricked to the Heart upon the conviction of their sin, and cried what shall we do; Act. 2.37, 38, 39. Such also was the state of the Jaylor unto whom the Apostle Paul proposed Salvation by Christ, as what he was to believe for his Deliverance, Act. 16.30, 31.

4ly. The state of Adam and Gods dealing with him therein, is the best Representation of the order and method of these things. As He was after the Fall, so are we by nature in the very same state and condition. Really he was utterly lost by sin, and convinced he was both of the nature of his sin, and of the effects of it in that Act of God by the Law on his mind, which is called the the opening of his Eyes. For it was nothing but the communication unto his mind by his conscience of a sense of the nature, guilt, effects, and consequents of sin, which the Law could then teach him, and could not do so before. This fills him with shame and fear; against the former whereof he provided by Fig-leaves, and against the latter by hiding himself among the Trees of the Garden. Nor, however they may please themselves with them, are any of the contrivances of men, for freedom and safety from sin, either wiser or more likely to have success. In this ⟨p. 101⟩