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The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
The doctrine of justification by faith through the imputation of the righteousness of Christ, explained, confirmed, & vindicated by John Owen ...
London: printed for R. Boulter, 1677
Chapter 1: Justifying Faith, the Causes, Object, and Nature of it, declared.
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3. Those which give us such a description of the Acts of Faith, as make him the direct and proper Object of it. Such are they wherein it is called a receiving of him, Joh. 1.12. To as many as received him, Col. 2.6. As you have received Christ Jesus the Lord. That which we receive by Faith is the ⟨p. 122⟩proper Object of it. And it is represented their looking unto the Brazen Serpent when it was lifted up, who were stung by fiery Serpents, Joh. 3.14, 15. chap. 12. 32. Faith is that Act of the Soul whereby Convinced sinners, ready otherwise to perish, do look unto Christ as he was made a Propitiation for their sins; and who so do shall not perish but have Everlasting Life. He is therefore the Object of our Faith.
2ly. He is so as he is the Ordinance of God unto this End, which consideration is not to be separated from our Faith in him. And this also is confirmed by several sorts of Testimonies.
1. All Those wherein the Love and Grace of God are proposed as the only Cause of giving Jesus Christ to be the way and means of our Recovery and Salvation, whence they become, or God in them, the supreme Efficient Cause of our Justification, Joh. 3.16. God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have Everlasting Life, So