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; ;OUR STATUS365of living with the reformers by faith, he tries to livefoundby the thingsin himself.And fromthismen mustMuch more thangrace.return.forsake justification by faiththis is toThis ...
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JUSTIFICATION366came upon Him, and as such His Father forsook Him, and gave Him over to bitterest death. In the Resurrection alone He was restored to the status of the righteous, and thus He was raised for our justification. Oh, this matter goes so deep When to the Lord God is again ...
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XXXII. from Eternity.Justification"Therighteousness whichby faith."— /'/it/,It hascerns usbecome evidentis,that the question whichwenot whetheraremore orless holy,iii.isof ...
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JUSTIFICATION370 himself limited to themomentof his conversion, but feels that thisblessedness flows to him from the eternal depths of the hiddenlifeof God. Itshould therefore openly be confessed, and without any abbre-viation, that justific ...
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1JUSTIFICATION FROM ETERNITY ticularly theabout37Son who in His Incarnation and Resurrection brings is, in more limited sense, the Holy Spiritjustification, so itparticularlywhoreveals this justification to the persons of theand cause ...
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JUSTIFICATION FROM ETERNITY be declared just by his God,in order to transact the369 honorablebusiness of sanctification.To prove that this is effected absolutely without our own merit, doing or not doing, and entirely without our actual condition, we refer to the royal ...
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JUSTIFICATION368justification is effected outside of us, irrespective ofwhat weare,dependent only upon the decision of God, our Judge and Sovereign in such a way that justification precedes sanctification, the latter proceeding from the former as a necessary res ...
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—XXXIII. Certainty ofOur ••The thatJustification. Being justified freely by His grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus." Rom. iii. 24.foregoing illustrations shed unexpected light upon the factGodjustifies the ungodly,and not ...
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:CERTAINTY OF OUR JUSTIFICATION373by His grace, through the redemption that is " Whom He called, them He also justified; and whom He justified, them He also glorified." For this reason the Reformation made justification by faith the starting-point for the conscience, and by t ...
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JUSTIFICATION374And, since the Lord God is a Judge who trieth the reins and all our ways, in whom there can be no failure or mistake or ignorance, it is not thinkable, it is impossible, it is inconsistent with God's Being, that as the just Judge He ever could pronounce a judgment th ...