The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

Under the new Testament there was a necessity of a more full and clear Declaration of the Doctrine of it. For it is among the first and most principal parts of that Heavenly mystery of Truth which was to be brought to light by the Gospel. And besides there was from the first a strong and ⟨p. 227⟩Dangerous Opposition made unto it. For this matter of Justification, the Doctrine of it, and what necessarily belongs thereunto, was that whereon the Jewish Church broke off from God, refused Christ and the Gospel, perishing in their sins; as is expressly declared, Rom. 9.31, 10.3, 4. And in like manner a dislike of it, an Opposition unto it, ever was and ever will be a principle and cause of the Apostasy of any professing Church, from Christ and the Gospel, that falls under the power and deceit of them; as it fell out afterwards in the Churches of the Galatians. But in this state the Doctrine of Justification was fully declared, stated, and vindicated by the Apostle Paul in a peculiar manner. And he doth it especially by affirming and proving that we have the Righteousness whereby and wherewith we are justified by Imputation; or that our Justification consists in the non-Imputation of sin, and the Imputation of Righteousness.

Under the new Testament there was a necessity of a more full and clear Declaration of the Doctrine of it. For it is among the first and most principal parts of that Heavenly mystery of Truth which was to be brought to light by the Gospel. And besides there was from the first a strong and ⟨p. 227⟩Dangerous Opposition made unto it. For this matter of Justification, the Doctrine of it, and what necessarily belongs thereunto, was that whereon the Jewish Church broke off from God, refused Christ and the Gospel, perishing in their sins; as is expresly declared, Rom. 9.31, 10.3, 4. And in like manner a dislike of it, an Opposition unto it, ever was and ever will be a principle and cause of the Apostasie of any professing Church, from Christ and the Gospel, that falls under the power and deceit of them; as it fell out afterwards in the Churches of the Galatians. But in this state the Doctrine of Justification was fully declared, stated, and vindicated by the Apostle Paul in a peculiar manner. And he doth it especially by affirming and proving that we have the Righteousness whereby and wherewith we are justified by Imputation; or that our Justification consists in the non-Imputation of sin, and the Imputation of Righteousness.