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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.
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.
2. All those, wherein God is said to set forth and propose Christ, and to make him be for us, and unto us, what he is so, unto the Justification of Life, Rom. 3.25. Whom God hath proposed to be a Propitiation, 1. Cor. 1.30. Who of God is made unto us Wisdom and Righteousness, and Sanctification and Redemption, 2 Cor. 5.21. He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the Righteousness of God in him. Act. 5.35. &c. Wherefore in the acting of Faith in Christ unto Justification, we can no otherwise consider him but as the Ordinance of God to that End; he brings nothing unto us, does nothing for us, but what God appointed, designed, ⟨p. 123⟩and made him to be. And this must diligently be considered, that by our regard by Faith unto the Blood, the Sacrifice, the Satisfaction of Christ, we take off nothing from the free Grace, Favour and Love of God.
3. All those wherein the Wisdom of God, in the contrivance of this way of Justification and Salvation is proposed unto us; Ephes. 1.7, 8. In whom we have Redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the Riches of his Grace, wherein he hath abounded towards us in all Wisdom and Understanding. See chap. 3.10, 11. 1 Cor. 1.24.
3. All those wherein the Wisdom of God, in the contrivance of this way of Justification and Salvation is proposed unto us;