The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

Particularly, He designed herein the Glory of his Righteousness. To declare his Righteousness; Rom. 3.25. Of his Love; God so loved the world, Joh. 3.16. Herein we perceive the Love of God that he laid down his life for us, 1 Joh. 3.16. Of his Grace; accepted to the praise of the Glory of his Grace, Ephes. 1.5, 6. Of his Wisdom; Christ Crucified, the Wisdom of God, 1 Cor. 1.24. might be known by the Church the manifold wisdom of God, Ephes. 3.10. Of his Power; It is the Power of God unto Salvation, Rom. 1.16. Of his Faithfulness, Rom. 4.16. For God designed herein, not only the Reparation of all that Glory, whose Declaration was impeached and obscured by the Entrance of sin, but also a farther Exaltation and more eminent Manifestation of it, as unto the Degrees of its Exaltation, and some especial Instances before concealed, Ephes. 3.9. And all this is called the Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, whereof Faith is the beholding, 2 Cor. 4.6.

3. This being the principal Design of God in the way of Justification and Salvation by Christ proposed in the Gospel, that which on our part is required unto a participation of the Benefits of it, is the Ascription of that Glory unto God which he designs so to Exalt. The Acknowledgement of all these glorious properties of the Divine Nature, as manifested in the provision and proposition of this way of life, Righteousness and Salvation, with an Approbation of the way it self as an effect of them, and that which is safely to be trusted unto, is that which is required of us; and this is Faith or Believing. Being strong in Faith he gave Glory to God,