446 The nature of Yuflifccation, as declared all that have this Faith, and only unto them, and that with- out difference on the confederation of any thing elfe beides. And although Faith taken abfolutely, may be ufed in various fences, yet as thus fpecified and limited, the Faith of Christ yefur, or as he calls it, the Faith that is in me. Ads 26. 18. It can intend nothing but the reception of him , and truft in him, as the Ordinance of God for Righteoufnefs and Salvation. This defcription of The Righteoufnefs of God revealed in the Gofpel, which the Apoftle aíferts as the only means and caufe of our Juftification before God, with the only way of its participation and communication unto us by the Faith of Chrift Jens, fully confirms the truth we plead for. For if the Righteoufnefs wherewith we muff be juflified before God be not our own, but the Righteoufnefs of God, as there things are direaly oppofed, Phil. 3. 9. And the only way whereby it comes upon us, or we are made partakers of it, is by the Faith of yefus Chrift, then our own perfonal inherent Righteoufnefs or Obedience, bath no intereff in our Juftifi- cation before God ; which Argument is infoluble, nor is the force of it to be waved by any diftinCtions whatever , if we keep our hearts unto a due reverence of the Authority of God in his Word. Having fully proved, That no Men living have any Righ- teoufnefs of their own, whereby they may be juffified, but are all 'hut up under the guilt of fin; and having declared, That there is a Righteoufnefs of God now fully revealed in the Gofpel, whereby alone we may be fo; leaving all Men in themfelves unto their own lot, In as much as all have finned and come fhort of the glory of God, he proceeds to declare the nature of our Juftification before God in all the caufes of it. Ver. 24, 25, 26. Being jufl fed freely by his Grace through the Redemption that is in ye* Chrift, whom God bath fit forth to be a propitiation through Faith in his Blood, to declare his Righ.
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