The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

1. That Boasting is excluded; [Greek or Hebrew], ver. 27. Apparent it is from hence, and from what he affirms concerning Abraham, Chap. 4. v. 2. that a great part, at least, of the controversy he had about Justification, was whether it did admit of any [Greek or Hebrew] or [Greek or Hebrew] in those that were justified. And it is known that the Jews placed all their Hopes in those things whereof they thought they could boast, namely their Privileges and their Righteousness. But from the declaration made of the Nature and Causes of Justification, the Apostle infers that all Boasting whatever is utterly shut out of doors; [Greek or Hebrew]. Boasting, in our language is the name of a vice; and is never used in a good sense. But [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew], the words used by the Apostle, are [Greek or Hebrew] of an indifferent signification, and as they are applied may denote a Virtue as well as a Vice. So they do, Heb. 3.6.

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