The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

The Enquiry therefore is upon the consideration of the state of the Person to be justified before mentioned and described, and the proposal of the Reliefs in our Justification as now expressed; whether it be the wisest and safest course for such a Person seeking to be justified before God, to betake himself absolutely, his whole Trust and Confidence, unto Sovereign Grace and the Mediation of Christ, or to have some reserve for, or to place some confidence in his own Graces, Duties, Works and Obedience? In putting this great Difference unto Umpirage, that we may not be thought to fix on a partial Arbitrator, we shall refer it to one of our ⟨p. 36⟩greatest and most learned Adversaries in this cause. And he positively gives us in his Determination and Resolution in those known words. In this case; Propter incertitudinem propriae justitiae, & periculum inanis gloriae, Tutissimum est fiduciam totam in sola misericordia Dei &: benignitate reponere, Bellar. de Justificat. lib. 5. cap. 7. prop. 3. By reason of the uncertainty of our own Righteousness, and the danger of vain Glory, it is the safest course to repose our whole Trust in the mercy and kindness or Grace of God alone.

The Enquiry therefore is upon the consideration of the state of the Person to be justified before mentioned and described, and the proposal of the Reliefs in our Justification as now expressed; whether it be the wisest and safest course for such a Person seeking to be justified before God, to betake himself absolutely, his whole Trust and Confidence, unto Soveraign Grace and the Mediation of Christ, or to have some reserve for, or to place some confidence in his own Graces, Duties, Works and Obedience? In putting this great Difference unto Ʋmpirage, that we may not be thought to fix on a partial Arbitrator, we shall refer it to one of our ⟨p. 36⟩greatest and most learned Adversaries in this cause. And he positively gives us in his Determination and Resolution in those known words. In this case; Propter incertitudinem propriae justitiae, & periculum inanis gloriae, Tutissimum est fiduciam totam in sola misericordia Dei &: benignitate reponere, Bellar. de Justificat. lib. 5. cap. 7. prop. 3. By reason of the uncertainty of our own Righteousness, and the danger of vain Glory, it is the safest course to repose our whole Trust in the mercy and kindness or Grace of God alone.