The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

(1.) By a declaration of the causes of the necessity of it unto our Justification. This is done in the account given of our Apostasy from God, of the loss of his Image, and the state of sin that ensued thereon. For hereby an end was put unto ⟨p. 445⟩all possibility and hope of acceptance with God, by our own Personal Righteousness. By the entrance of sin, our own Righteousness went out of the World; so that there must be another Righteousness prepared and approved of God, and called The Righteousness of God, in opposition unto our own, or all Relation of Love and Favour between God and Man, must cease for ever.

(1.) By a declaration of the causes of the necessity of it unto our Justification. This is done in the account given of our Apostasie from God, of the loss of his Image, and the state of sin that insued thereon. For hereby an end was put unto ⟨p. 445⟩all possibility and hope of acceptance with God, by our own Personal Righteousness. By the entrance of sin, our own Righteousness went out of the World; so that there must be another Righteousness prepared and approved of God, and called The Righteousness of God, in opposition unto our own, or all Relation of Love and Favor between God and Man, must cease for ever.

(2.) In the way of recovery from this state, generally declared in the first Promise of the Blessed Seed, by whom this Righteousness of God was to be wrought and introduced; for he alone was to make an end of sin, and to bring in Everlasting Righteousness, [Greek or Hebrew] Dan. 9.24. That Righteousness of God, that should be the means of the Justification of the Church in all ages, and under all dispensations.

(2.) In the way of recovery from this state, generally declared in the first Promise of the Blessed Seed, by whom this Righteousness of God was to be wrought and introduced; for he alone was to make an end of sin, and to bring in Everlasting Righteousness,