The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

There are also sundry other mistakes that concur unto that part of the Charge against the Imputation of the Righteousness of Christ unto us, which we have now considered. I say of his Righteousness; for the Apostle in this case useth those two words [Greek or Hebrew], and [Greek or Hebrew] Righteousness and Obedience, as [Greek or Hebrew], of the same signification, Rom. 5.18, 19. such are those, that Remission of Sin and Justification are the same, or that Justification consisteth only in the Remission of Sin; that Faith it self as our Act and Duty, being it is the Condition of the Covenant, is imputed unto us for Righteousness or that we have a personal inherent Righteousness of our own, that one way or other is our Righteousness before God unto Justification; either a Condition it is, or a Disposition unto it; or hath a congruity in deserving the Grace of Justification, or a down-right merit of Condignity thereof. For all these are but various expressions of the same thing, according unto the Variety of the Conceptions of the Minds of men about it. But they have been all considered and removed in our precedent Discourses.

There are also sundry other mistakes that concur unto that part of the Charge against the Imputation of the Righteousness of Christ unto us, which we have now considered. I say of his Righteousness; for the Apostle in this case useth those two words 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Righteousness and Obedience, as 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, of the same signification, Rom. 5.18, 19. such are those, that Remission of Sin and Justification are the same, or that Justification consisteth only in the Remission of Sin; that Faith it self as our Act and Duty, being it is the Condition of the Covenant, is imputed unto us for Righteousness or that we have a personal inherent Righteousness of our own, that one way or other is our Righteousness before God unto Justification; either a Condition it is, or a Disposition unto it; or hath a congruity in deserving the Grace of Justification, or a down-right merit of Condignity thereof. For all these are but various expressions of the same thing, according unto the Variety of the Conceptions of the Minds of men about it. But they have been all considered and removed in our precedent Discourses.