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Justification
A forensic act of God's free grace, in which he pardons all the sins of the justified and accepts their persons as righteous in his sight, not for …
Saving Faith
… of the Word. By faith a Christian receives and rests upon Christ alone for justification, sanctification, and eternal life (WCF XIV).
Cruxes
The Imputation of Christ's Active Obedience
Is Christ’s law-keeping, as well as his suffering, imputed to the justified believer?
Justification and the Antinomian Crisis
How do you secure sola fide without letting the law fall away?
Divines
George Walker
1581–1651
St John Evangelist Watling Street; doctrinal controversialist against the antinomians.
Anthony Burgess
d. 1664
*Vindiciae Legis* (1646); the Assembly’s great writer on the third use of the law.
Ralph Brownrig
1592–1659
Bishop of Exeter; Master of Catharine Hall; moderate Calvinist Episcopalian.
Schools & traditions
The Savoy Declaration (1658)
… the Savoy Declaration adopted the Westminster Confession nearly verbatim on doctrine (including the decree, justification, the law, and the sacraments) but rewrote the polity chapters to replace presbyterianism with …
The Second London Confession (1689)
… Confession adopted Westminster's language de novo on virtually every doctrinal locus — the decree, justification, sanctification, the law, the last things — but departed sharply on baptism (believers only, …