Marrowmen: Our Good Works Are Not Instrumental Or Causal In Our Justification...
“If a sinner, being justified, has all things at once that are necessary for salvation? And if personal holiness, and progress in holy obedience, is not necessary to a justified persons’s possession of...
View ArticleCalvin: Sinners Are Justified Only By Free Acceptance Is The Forgiveness Of...
To be justified in the sight of God, to be Justified by faith or by works. A man is said to be justified in the sight of God when in the judgment of God he is deemed righteous, and is accepted on . . ....
View ArticleNew: Resources On The Doctrine Of Justification
According to J. H. Alsted (1588–1638), “the article justification is said to be the article of the standing or falling of the church.” It was said to be such by the confessionally Reformed and Lutheran...
View ArticlePerkins: Justification Is The Foundation Of The House
A man breaks down the windows of his house. The house stands. He breaks down the roof or the walls. The house yet stands, though deformed. He pulls up the foundation— the house itself falls and ceases...
View ArticleJustification And Sanctification: The Twofold Grace Of Salvation
It’s not uncommon to hear some people appeal to James 2:24 in order to argue that God saves people by faith plus works. In particular, some argue against the doctrine of justification by faith alone by...
View ArticleAre Good Works Enough?
Good works proceed from saving faith; faith that does not bear fruit is not saving faith (see James 2:19). James 2:24 is talking about works as fruit and evidence of saving faith, not meritorious works...
View ArticleThis Is Entirely Incorrect And Here Is Why
I stumbled upon this passage whilst looking for something else. It is an excellent summary of what was widely held and taught from the first half of the 19th century through the first half of the 20th...
View ArticleWhy Caution About Jonathan Edwards Is In Order
Jonathan Edwards (1703–58) is America’s most famous theologian and perhaps its most famous philosopher too. He is an important and influential figure and worth seeking to understand for those reasons...
View ArticleWalter Marshall’s Antidote To Nomism
“[T]hat we must be reconciled to God, and justified by the remission of our sins, and imputation of righteousness, before any sincere obedience to the law; that we may be enabled for the practice of...
View ArticleWilliam Perkins: Both Justification And Salvation Are Through Faith Alone
“Faith therefore justifies because it is an instrument to apprehend and apply that which justifies, namely, Christ and His obedience. As the Israelites stung of fiery serpents were cured, so are we...
View ArticleCultural Transformation Is Not The Article Of The Standing Or Falling Of The...
Within the last two weeks or so it has been asserted by some, in a letter to a congregation, that the doctrine of cultural transformation is a matter of Reformed orthodoxy and that anyone who dissents...
View ArticleOwen: In Order To Appreciate The Glory Of Christ’s Righteousness Imputed We...
The deformity of soul which came upon us in the loss of the image of God, wherein in beauty and harmony of all our faculties, in all their actings in order unto their utmost end, did consist; that...
View ArticleMarshall: The Moralists Try To Put Us Back Under The Covenant Of Works...
“[T]hat we must be reconciled to God, and justified by the remission of our sins, and imputation of righteousness, before any sincere obedience to the law; that we may be enabled for the practice of...
View ArticlePerkins: Your Good Works Are All Imperfect And Mixed With Corruption
The child of God is like a lame man that goes the right way, but yet halts at every step. Abraham and Sarah desire issue, that is from the Spirit; but they desire issue by Hagar their handmaid, that is...
View ArticleIn The Law-Court Of God The Christian Is Accounted Righteous Only On The...
In the law-court of God, then, the justification of man as sinner is the judgment of God whereby He pronounces righteous the person who is unholy and of himself a sinner subject to God’s wrath. He does...
View ArticleGouge: In The Order Of The Application Of Redemption Justification Precedes...
Justification in order goeth before sanctification…Sanctification presupposeth justification: they who are sanctified may rest upon it, that they are cleansed and justified. For sanctification is a...
View ArticlePerkins: We Are Not Justified By Our Works Either Before Or After Our...
“[I] answer, that not only works done before faith are excluded, but also works that follow faith and are done in the estate of grace. For Paul here reasons thus: If no flesh be justified by works,...
View ArticleCulture Is Important But It Is Not The Most Important Thing
Culture is important but it is not the most important thing. Humans will have a culture. The only question is what sort of culture. Christians will exist in a broader culture. Because they are...
View ArticleChrist Is The Firm Foundation For Your Assurance
I would fain leave every one of you upon a good bottom, built upon the rock, that ‘sure foundation,’ Isa. xxviii. 16, which will stand firm and steady in all winds and weather, having that anchor-hold...
View ArticleSproul: Christ Does Not Wait For Us To Become Holy Before He Declares Us...
Justification stands at the beginning of the Christian life, at the moment we truly believe in Christ. At that instant, God reckons to us the righteousness of Christ, and we are declared just. Martin...
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