A65285:1121
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Quest. What is the Means or Instrument of our Justification?
Quest. What is the Means or Instrument of our Iustification?
Resp. Faith, Rom. 5.1. Being justified by faith. The Dignity is not in Faith as a Grace, but relatively, as it lays hold on Christ's Merits.
Quest. What is the Efficient Cause of our Justification?
Quest. What is the Efficient Cause of our Iustification?
Resp. The whole Trinity, all the Persons in the Blessed Trinity have an Hand in the Justification of a Sinner: Opera Trinitatis ad extra sunt indivisa. God the Father is said to justify, Rom. 8.33. It is God that justifieth. God the Son is said to justify, Acts 13.39. By him all that believe are justified. God the Holy Ghost is said to justify,