Lutherus redivivus, or, The Protestant doctrine of justification by Christ's righteousness imputed to believers, explained and vindicated. Part II: by John Troughton, Minister of the Gospel, sometimes Fellow of S. John's Coll. in Oxon ... [quotation, Augustine. Epist. 105].

Argument 5.

We are justified freely by Gods grace, therefore by faith as a trust in the Promise: The Antecedent is the Apostles, Rom. 3.24. Being justified freely by his grace, through the Redemption that is in Jesus Christ: the Con∣sequence is his also, for he adds, God hath set forth him to be a Propitiation through Faith in his Bloud: likewise Rom. 4.16. It is by Faith, that it may be by Grace. If we are justified by Obedience to any Commands, as Obedience, then may we be justified by grace in part, there may be some mercy in it, but not freely by his grace. Faith only accepteth Salvation as a gift of meer grace, pleading nothing but the free Promise of God, in which it trusts, and Faith only applyeth the Righteousness of God by trusting in it: but Obedience, be it what

it will, provides a Righteousness of our own; and hereby only is all the glory of our Salvation ascribed to God when we trust to no∣thing of our own in any sort: But Christ is Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption to us, which is by Faith only, 1 Cor. 1.30, 31. For obedience, as obedience, brings something to God, and doth not receive from him, and some of the Glory is due to it.