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7 results for “justification”, plus 9 in the Atlas

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WCF Westminster Confession of Faith
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11.3
Of Justification
… satisfaction accepted in their stead; and both freely, not for anything in them; their justification is only of free grace; that both the exact justice, and rich grace of …
 11.6
Of Justification
The justification of believers under the old testament was, in all these respects, one and the …
 11.2
Of Justification
… thus receiving and resting on Christ and His righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification; yet is it not alone in the person justified, but is ever accompanied with …
 11.4
Of Justification
… in the fulness of time, die for their sins, and rise again for their justification: nevertheless, they are not justified, until the Holy Spirit doth, in due time, actually …
 11.5
Of Justification
… those that are justified: and although they can never fall from the state of justification; yet they may, by their sins, fall under God’s fatherly displeasure, and not have …
 11.1
Of Justification
Those whom God effectually calleth, He also freely justifieth; not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as …
 14.2
Of Saving Faith
… principal acts of saving faith are accepting, receiving, and resting upon Christ alone for justification, sanctification, and eternal life, by virtue of the covenant of grace.
Also in the Atlas Divines, cruxes, schools, and heads of doctrine
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Heads of doctrine
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, …