The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

This is the general Thesis the Apostle proposeth unto Confirmation, and he seems therein to exclude from Justification every thing but the Righteousness of God and the Faith of Believers. And to this purpose he considers all Persons that did or might pretend unto Righteousness or seek after it, and all ways and means whereby they hoped to attain unto it, or whereby it might most probably be obtained, declaring the failing of all persons, and the insufficiency of all means as unto them, for the obtaining a Righteousness of our own before God. And as unto Persons.

1. He considers the Gentiles with all their notions of God, their Practice in Religious Worship, with their Conversation thereon. And from the whole of what might be observed amongst them, he concludes that they neither were, nor could be justified before God, but that they were all, and that most deservedly, obnoxious unto the sentence of Death. And whatever men may discourse concerning the Justification and Salvation of any, without the Revelation of the Righteousness of God by the Gospel from Faith to Faith, it is expressly ⟨p. 27⟩contradictory to his whole Discourse, chap. 1. from ver. 19. to the End.

1. He considers the Gentiles with all their notions of God, their Practice in Religious Worship, with their Conversation thereon. And from the whole of what might be observed amongst them, he concludes that they neither were, nor could be justified before God, but that they were all, and that most deservedly, obnoxious unto the sentence of Death. And whatever men may discourse concerning the Justification and Salvation of any, without the Revelation of the Righteousness of God by the Gospel from Faith to Faith, it is expresly ⟨p. 27⟩contradictory to his whole Discourse, chap. 1. from ver. 19. to the End.