The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

I have therefore given the entire Object of Faith as Justifying, or in its Work and Duty with respect unto our Justification, ⟨p. 119⟩in compliance with the Testimonies of the Scripture, and the Experience of them that believe.

Allowing therefore their proper place unto the Promises, and unto the Effect of all in the pardon of sins and Eternal Life; that which I shall farther confirm is, That the Lord Christ in the Work of his Mediation, as the Ordinance of God for the Recovery and Salvation of lost sinners, is the proper adequate Object of Justifying Faith. And the true nature of Evangelical Faith consisteth in the Respect of the Heart (which we shall immediately describe) unto the Love, Grace, and Wisdom of God, with the Mediation of Christ, in his Obedience, with the Sacrifice, Satisfaction, and Atonement for sin which he made by his Blood. These things are impiously opposed by some as inconsistent. For the second Head of the Socinian Impiety is, That the Grace of God, and Satisfaction of Christ are opposite and inconsistent, so as that if we allow of the one we must deny the other. But as these things are so proposed in the Scripture, as that without granting them both, neither can be believed; so Faith which respects them as subordinate, namely, the Mediation of Christ unto the Grace of God, that fixeth it self on the Lord Christ and that Redemption which is in his blood, as the Ordinance of God, the Effect of his Wisdom, Grace and Love, finds rest in both, and in nothing else.

Allowing therefore their proper place unto the Promises, and unto the Effect of all in the pardon of sins and Eternal Life; that which I shall farther confirm is, That the Lord Christ in the Work of his Mediation, as the Ordinance of God for the Recovery and Salvation of lost sinners, is the proper adequate Object of Justifying Faith. And the true nature of Evangelical Faith consisteth in the Respect of the Heart (which we shall immediately describe) unto the Love, Grace, and Wisdom of God, with the Mediation of Christ, in his Obedience, with the Sacrifice, Satisfaction, and Attonement for sin which he made by his Blood. These things are impiously opposed by some as inconsistent. For the second Head of the Socinian Impiety is, That the Grace of God, and Satisfaction of Christ are opposite and inconsistent, so as that if we allow of the one we must deny the other. But as these things are so proposed in the Scripture, as that without granting them both, neither can be believed; so Faith which respects them as subordinate, namely, the Mediation of Christ unto the Grace of God, that fixeth it self on the Lord Christ and that Redemption which is in his blood, as the Ordinance of God, the Effect of his Wisdom, Grace and Love, finds rest in both, and in nothing else.