— Paragraph 1 Good works are only such as God has commanded in his Holy Word,1 and not such as without the warrant thereof are devised by men out of blind…
Chapter 15 Paragraph 3 This saving repentance is an evangelical grace,4 whereby a person, being by the Holy Spirit made sensible of the manifold evils of his sin, does, by faith…
Paragraph 3 This faith, although it be in different stages, and may be weak or strong,11 yet it is in the least degree of it different in the kind or nature…
Paragraph 1 The grace of faith, whereby the elect are enabled to believe to the saving of their souls, is the work of the Spirit of Christ in their hearts,1 and…
An Exposition of the 2nd (1689) London Baptist Confession Chapter 13.1-3: Of Sanctification 13.1 They who are united to Christ, effectually called, and regenerated, having a new heart and a…
Paragraph 1 All those that are justified, God conferred, in and for the sake of his only Son Jesus Christ, to make partakers of the grace of adoption,1 by which they…
— Paragraph 4 God did from all eternity decree to justify all the elect,11 and Christ did in the fullness of time die for their sins, and rise again for their…
Paragraph 2 Faith thus receiving and resting on Christ and his righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification;6 yet is not alone in the person justified, but is ever accompanied with…
Is the Roman Catholic Doctrine of Justification Orthodox?
Paragraph 1 Those whom God effectually calls, he also freely justifies,1 not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous;2 not…