The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

3. This Distinction of two Justifications as used and improved by those of the Roman Church, leaves us indeed no Justification at all. Something there is in the branches of it, of Sanctification, but of Justification nothing at all. Their first Justification in the infusion of an habit or principle of Grace, unto the expulsion of all habits of Sin, is Sanctification and nothing else. And we never did contend that our Justification in such a sense, if any will take it in such a sense, doth consist in the Imputation of the Righteousness of Christ. And this Justification, if any will needs call it so, is capable of degrees, both of increase in its self, and of exercise in its fruits, as was newly declared. But not only to call this our ⟨p. 196⟩Justification, with a general respect unto the notion of the word, as a making of us personally and inherently Righteous, but to plead that this is the Justification through Faith in the Blood of Christ, declared in the Scripture, is to exclude the only true Evangelical Justification from any place in Religion. The second Branch of the distinction hath much in it like unto Justification by the Law, but nothing of that which is declared in the Gospel. So that this Distinction instead of coining us two Justification according to the Gospel, hath left us none at all. For

3. This Distinction of two Justifications as used and improved by those of the Roman Church, leaves us indeed no Justification at all. Something there is in the branches of it, of Sanctification, but of Justification nothing at all. Their first Justification in the infusion of an habit or principle of Grace, unto the expulsion of all habits of Sin, is Sanctification and nothing else. And we never did contend that our Justification in such a sense, if any will take it in such a sense, doth consist in the Imputation of the Righteousness of Christ. And this Justification, if any will needs call it so, is capable of degrees, both of encrease in its self, and of exercise in its fruits, as was newly declared. But not only to call this our ⟨p. 196⟩Justification, with a general respect unto the notion of the word, as a making of us personally and inherently Righteous, but to plead that this is the Justification through Faith in the Blood of Christ, declared in the Scripture, is to exclude the only true Evangelical Justification from any place in Religion. The second Branch of the distinction hath much in it like unto Justification by the Law, but nothing of that which is declared in the Gospel. So that this Distinction instead of coyning us two Justification according to the Gospel, hath left us none at all. For