The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

It is therefore by some apprehended that there is an Evangelical Justification, upon our Evangelical Personal Righteousness. This they distinguish from that Justification which is by Faith through the Imputation of the Righteousness of Christ, in the sense wherein they do allow it. For the Righteousness of Christ is our Legal Righteousness, whereby we have pardon of sin, and acquitment from the sentence of ⟨p. 213⟩the Law, on the account of his satisfaction and merit. But moreover they say, that as there is a Personal inherent Righteousness required of us, so there is a Justification by the Gospel thereon. For by our Faith and the plea of it, we are justified from the charge of Unbelief; by our sincerity and the plea of it, we are justified from the charge of Hypocrisy; and so by all other Graces and Duties from the charge of the contrary sins in Commission or Omission, so far as such sins are inconsistent with the Terms of the Covenant of Grace. How this differeth from the second Justification before God, which some say we have by works on the supposition of the pardon of sin for the satisfaction of Christ, and the infusion of an habit of Grace enabling us to perform those Works, is declared by those who so express themselves.

It is therefore by some apprehended that there is an Evangelical Justification, upon our Evangelical Personal Righteousness. This they distinguish from that Justification which is by Faith through the Imputation of the Righteousness of Christ, in the sense wherein they do allow it. For the Righteousness of Christ is our Legal Righteousness, whereby we have pardon of sin, and acquitment from the sentence of ⟨p. 213⟩the Law, on the account of his satisfaction and merit. But moreover they say, that as there is a Personal inherent Righteousness required of us, so there is a Justification by the Gospel thereon. For by our Faith and the plea of it, we are justified from the charge of Unbelief; by our sincerity and the plea of it, we are justified from the charge of Hypocrisie; and so by all other Graces and Duties from the charge of the contrary sins in Commission or Omission, so far as such sins are inconsistent with the Terms of the Covenant of Grace. How this differeth from the second Justification before God, which some say we have by works on the supposition of the pardon of sin for the satisfaction of Christ, and the infusion of an habit of Grace enabling us to perform those Works, is declared by those who so express themselves.