Confession Library / 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith
6 paragraphs
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 for anything wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone; 3 not…
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Faith thus receiving and resting on Christ and his righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification; 1 yet is not alone in the person justified, but is ever accompanied with all other saving graces, and is no dead faith, but works by love. 2
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Christ, by his obedience and death, did fully discharge the debt of all those who are justified; and did, by the sacrifice of himself in the blood of his cross, undergoing in their stead the penalty due to them, make a proper, real, and full satisfaction to God’s justice in their…
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God did from all eternity decree to justify all the elect, 1 and Christ did in the fullness of time die for their sins, and rise again for their justification; 2 nevertheless, they are not justified personally, until the Holy Spirit in time does actually apply Christ to them. 3
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God continues to forgive the sins of those that are justified, 1 and although they can never fall from the state of justification, 2 yet they may, by their sins, fall under God’s fatherly displeasure; 3 and in that condition they usually do not have the light of his countenance r…
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The justification of believers under the Old Testament was, in all these respects, one and the same with the justification of believers under the New Testament. 1
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