The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

There is also a twofold Justification before God mentioned in the Scripture. (1) By the works of the Law. Rom. 2.13. chap. 10.5. Matth. 19.15, 16, 17, 18, 19. Hereunto is required an absolute conformity unto the whole Law of God in our natures, all the faculties of our Souls, all the principles of our moral operations, with perfect actual Obedience unto all its commands, in all instances of Duty, both for matter and manner. For he is cursed who continueth not in all things that are written in the Law to do them. And he that breaks any one Commandment is guilty of the breach of the whole Law. Hence the Apostle concludes, that none can be Justified by the Law, because all have sinned. (2) There is a Justification by Grace through Faith in the Blood of Christ, whereof we treat. And these ways of Justification are contrary, proceeding on terms directly contradictory, and cannot be made consistent with, or subservient one to the other. But as we shall manifest afterwards the confounding of them both, by mixing them together, is that which is aimed at in this distinction of a first and second Justification. But whatever respects it may have, that Justification which we have before God, in his sight through Jesus Christ, is but one, and at once full and complete, and this distinction is a vain and fond invention: For

There is also a twofold Justification before God mentioned in the Scripture. (1) By the works of the Law. Rom. 2.13. chap. 10.5. Matth. 19.15, 16, 17, 18, 19. Hereunto is required an absolute conformity unto the whole Law of God in our natures, all the faculties of our Souls, all the principles of our moral operations, with perfect actual Obedience unto all its commands, in all instances of Duty, both for matter and manner. For he is cursed who continueth not in all things that are written in the Law to do them. And he that breaks any one Commandment is guilty of the breach of the whole Law. Hence the Apostle concludes, that none can be Justified by the Law, because all have sinned. (2) There is a Justification by Grace through Faith in the Blood of Christ, whereof we treat. And these ways of Justification are contrary, proceeding on terms directly contradictory, and cannot be made consistent with, or subservient one to the other. But as we shall manifest afterwards the confounding of them both, by mixing them together, is that which is aimed at in this distinction of a first and second Justification. But whatever respects it may have, that Justification which we have before God, in his sight through Jesus Christ, is but one, and at once full and compleat, and this distinction is a vain and fond invention: For