The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

These and the like Testimonies are express, and in positive Terms assert all that we contend for. And I am persuaded, that no unprejudiced person, whose mind is not prepossessed with notions and distinctions whereof not the least Title is offered unto them from the Texts mentioned nor elsewhere, can but judg that the Law in every sense of it, and all sorts of Works whatever, that at any time, or by any means Sinners or Believers, do or can perform, are not in this or that sense; but every way and in all senses, excluded from our Justification before God. And if it be so, it is the Righteousness of Christ alone that we must betake our selves unto, or this matter must cease for ever. And this Inference the Apostle himself makes from one of the Testimonies before-mentioned, namely that of Gal. 2.16. for he adds upon it; I through the Law am dead to the Law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the Faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the Grace of God; for if Righteousness come by the Law, then is Christ dead in vain.

These and the like Testimonies are express, and in positive Terms assert all that we contend for. And I am perswaded, that no unprejudiced person, whose mind is not prepossessed with notions and distinctions whereof not the least Title is offered unto them from the Texts mentioned nor elsewhere, can but judg that the Law in every sense of it, and all sorts of Works whatever, that at any time, or by any means Sinners or Believers, do or can perform, are not in this or that sense; but every way and in all senses, excluded from our Justification before God. And if it be so, it is the Righteousness of Christ alone that we must betake our selves unto, or this matter must cease for ever. And this Inference the Apostle himself makes from one of the Testimonies before-mentioned, namely that of Gal. 2.16. for he adds upon it; I through the Law am dead to the Law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the Faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the Grace of God; for if Righteousness come by the Law, then is Christ dead in vain.