The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

For he says not, he made him a sinner, but sin, that we might be made not merely Righteous but Righteousness, and that the Righteousness of God, when we are justified not by works, (for if we should, there must be no spot found in them) but by Grace, whereby all sin is blotted out. So Bernard also Epist. 190. ad Innocent. Homo qui debuit, homo qui solvit. Nam si unus, inquit, pro omnibus mortuus est, ergo omnes mortui sunt; ut videlicet satisfactio unius omnibus imputetur, sicut omnium peccata unus ille portavit. Nec alter jam inveniatur qui for as fecit, alter qui satisfecit; quia Caput & Corpus unus est Christus. And many more speak unto the same purpose. Hence Luther before he engaged in the Work of Reformation, in an Epistle to one George Spenlein a Monk, was not afraid to write after this manner; Mi dulcis frater, disce Christum & hunc crucifixum, disce ei cantare, & de teipso desperans dicere ei; Tu Domine Jesus es justitia mea, ego autem sum peccatum tuum; tu assumpsisti meum, & dedisti mihi tuum, assumpsisti quod non eras, & dedisti mihi quod non eram. Ipse suscepit te & peccata tua fecit sua, & suam justitiam fecit tuam; maledictus qui haec non credit. Epist. An. 1516. Tom. 1.

For he says not, he made him a sinner, but sin, that we might be made not meerly Righteous but Righteousness, and that the Righteousness of God, when we are justified not by works, (for if we should, there must be no spot found in them) but by Grace, whereby all sin is blotted out. So Bernard also Epist. 190. ad Innocent. Homo qui debuit, homo qui solvit. Nam si unus, inquit, pro omnibus mortuus est, ergo omnes mortui sunt; ut videlicet satisfactio unius omnibus imputetur, sicut omnium peccata unus ille portavit. Nec alter jam inveniatur qui for as fecit, alter qui satisfecit; quia Caput & Corpus unus est Christus. And many more speak unto the same purpose. Hence Luther before he engaged in the Work of Reformation, in an Epistle to one George Spenlein a Monk, was not afraid to write after this manner; Mi dulcis frater, disce Christum & hunc crucifixum, disce ei cantare, & de teipso desperans dicere ei; Tu Domine Jesu es justitia mea, ego autem sum peccatum tuum; tu assumpsisti meum, & dedisti mihi tuum, assumpsisti quod non eras, & dedisti mihi quod non eram. Ipse suscepit te & peccata tua fecit sua, & suam justitiam fecit tuam; maledictus qui haec non credit. Epist. An. 1516. Tom. 1.