The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

The whole is comprised in that of the Apostle; God was in Christ reconciling the World unto himself, not imputing their Trespasses unto them, 2 Cor. 5.19. All that is done in our Reconciliation unto God, as unto the pardon of our sins, and Acceptance with him unto Life, was by the presence of God in his Grace, Wisdom, and Power in Christ, designing and effecting of it.

The whole is comprized in that of the Apostle; God was in Christ reconciling the World unto himself, not imputing their Trespasses unto them, 2 Cor. 5.19. All that is done in our Reconciliation unto God, as unto the pardon of our sins, and Acceptance with him unto Life, was by the presence of God in his Grace, Wisdom, and Power in Christ, designing and effecting of it.

Wherefore the Lord Christ proposed in the Promise of the Gospel as the Object of our Faith unto the Justification of Life, is considered as the Ordinance of God unto that End. Hence the Love, the Grace, and the Wisdom of God in the sending and giving of him, are comprised in that Object; and not only the Actings of God in Christ towards us, but all his Actings towards the Person of Christ himself unto the same End belong thereunto. So as unto his Death; God set him forth to be a Propitiation; Rom. 3.24. He spared him not, but delivered, him up for us all, Rom. 8.32. And therein laid all our sins upon him, Isa. 53.6. So he was raised for our Justification, Rom. 4.25. And our Faith is in God who raised him from the dead, Rom. 10.9. And in his Exaltation,