Confession Library / Westminster Confession of Faith
6 paragraphs
Those whom God effectually calleth he also freely justifieth; 1 not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous: not for anything wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christ’s sake alone; nor by…
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Faith, thus receiving and resting on Christ and his righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification; 1 yet is it not alone in the person justified, but is ever accompanied with all other saving graces, and is no dead faith, but worketh by love. 2
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Christ, by his obedience and death, did fully discharge the debt of all those that are thus justified, and did make a proper, real, and full satisfaction to his Father’s justice in their behalf. 1 Yet inasmuch as he was given by the Father for them, 2 and his obedience and satisf…
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God did, from all eternity, decree to justify all the elect, 1 and Christ did, in the fulness of time, die for their sins, and rise again for their justification: 2 nevertheless, they are not justified until the Holy Spirit doth, in due time, actually apply Christ unto them. 3
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God doth continue 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, and not have the light of his countenance restored unto them, until they humb…
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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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