The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

No man therefore is to be considered as a person to be Justified, but he who is actually under the power of the Conviction of sin, with all the necessary consequents thereof. Suppose therefore any sinner in this Condition, as it is described by the Apostle, Rom. 3. Guilty before God, with his mouth stopped as unto any pleas, defences or excuses; suppose him to seek after a Relief and Deliverance out of ⟨p. 163⟩this estate, that is to be justified according to the Gospel; he neither doth, nor can wisely take any other course than what he is there directed unto by the same Apostle, ver. 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25. Therefore by the Deeds of the Law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for by the Law is the knowledge of sin. But now the Righteousness of God without the Law is manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets. Even the Righteousness of God, which is by Faith of Jesus Christ unto all, and upon all them that believe, for there is no difference; For all have sinned, and come short of the Glory of God, Being justified freely by his Grace, through the Redemption that is in Jesus Christ; whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through Faith in his Blood, to declare his Righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God. Whence I argue;

That which a Guilty condemned sinner finding no hope, nor Relief from the Law of God the sole Rule of all his Obedience, doth betake himself unto by Faith that he may be delivered or justified, that is the especial Object of Faith as Justifying. But this is the Grace of God alone through the Redemption that is in Christ, or Christ proposed as a Propitiation through Faith in his Blood. Either this is so, or the Apostle doth not aright guide the Souls and Consciences of men in that condition wherein he himself doth place them. It is the Blood of Christ alone that he directs the Faith unto of all them that would be justified before God. Grace, Redemption, Propitiation, all through the Blood of Christ, Faith doth peculiarly respect and fix upon. This is that, if I mistake not, which they will confirm by their Experience, who have made any distinct observation of the actings of their Faith in their Justification before God.