Romans 3

Faith glories in the cross of Christ (Galatians 6:14). To consider Christ as he is crowned with all manner of excellencies, does rather stir up admiration and wonder; but Christ looked upon as bleeding and dying is the proper object of our faith: therefore it is called faith in…

Romans 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace. Quest. 21. What is Justification?

And thus Christ has taken away from believers the curse of the law, by being made a curse for them. But though the moral law is thus far abolished, yet it remains as a perpetual rule to believers: though the moral law be not their Savior, yet it is their guide: though it be not…

Election is free (Ephesians 1:4): He has chosen us in him, [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], according to the good pleasure of his will. Justification is free (Romans 3:24): Being justified freely by his grace. Say not then, I am unworthy, for mercy is free.

The more peaceable the more like God. It is a bad sign God is not their Father: 1. Who are fierce and cruel, as if with Romulus they had sucked the milk of a wolf (Romans 3:17). The way of peace have they not known, they sport in mischief; these are they who are of a persecuting…

They raised a slander of Paul, that he should preach men might do evil that good might come of it. We are slanderously reported, and some affirm that we say, Let us do evil that good may come (Romans 3:8). Eminency is commonly blasted by slander.

Answ. Faith in Jesus Christ, repentance to life, with the diligent use of all the outward means, whereby Christ communicates to us the benefits of redemption. I begin with the first, faith in Jesus Christ (Romans 3:25): Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith i…

Election is free (Ephesians 1:4): He has chosen us in him [illegible], according to the good pleasure of his will. Justification is free (Romans 3:24): Being justified freely by his grace. Salvation is free (Titus 3:5): According to his mercy he saved us.

O let us labor for faith: Christ is a propitiation or atonement, to take away sin, but how? Through faith in his blood (Romans 3:25). 6. Means, Pray much for pardon (Hosea 14:2): Take away all iniquity.

If still he pursues you and his wrath lies heavy on you, ask him what he aims at. Is it to have the victory and to overcome when he judges — as Romans 3:4 says, which David also knew when he humbled himself (Psalm 51:4)? Freely tell him that you are willing to give it to him, to…

Sin is anything whatever is against the will and word of God: as Saint John says, Sin is the transgression of the law (1 John 3:4). And this definition Paul confirms when he says, that by the law comes the knowledge of sin, and, where no law is there is no transgression: and, si…

Basil on humility: Let man acknowledge himself to lack true justice, and that he is justified only by faith in Christ. Origen on Romans 3: We think that a man is justified by faith without the works of the law: and he says that justification by faith alone suffices, so as a man…

1. That the Father should be satisfied, that he that was wronged should have his honor restored, that the threatening given out in his law should light and take effect; that the soul that sins, should in his own, or in the surety's person, die; and that a suitable recompense sho…

And in this respect it is said (Genesis 6:8) that all the imaginations of the thoughts of the heart in man are only evil continually; and (Ephesians 2:1) they are said to be dead in sin, not only in respect of their being subject to God's curse, but in respect of their natural d…

So, having shown how it comes to pass that Christ suffered and suffered so much, and was brought so low under suffering; and having told that he was engaged to pay the Elect's debt, and that the Father had laid their iniquities on him; lest any might think that the Father would…

And if his strokes were procured by our sins, then the desert of them was laid on him, and his sufferings behooved to be the curse that we elect sinners should have suffered; so when he is called their guarantor, it tells that he undertook their debt, and his laying down of his…

1. He purchases redemption and pardon of sin meritoriously, or He merits it by His death; this regards the value of Christ's sufferings and satisfaction: so that if we consider Christ in Himself, and the elect in themselves, His death and these sufferings are more than if all th…

In every thing He was put to pay the equivalent, for making up the satisfaction due to justice, and these two being put together — that elect sinners were subject to wrath, and that our Lord came in their room — He behooved to be put to sad and sore soul-travail and suffering. 3…

For, though He has sufficient righteousness, and though the Covenant gives warrant to take hold of it, yet, if there is not an actual taking hold of it, it will not profit us. Therefore, in Romans 3:22 and 9:30, it is called "the righteousness which is by faith in him." And in R…

Many of us, alas, live as if we were never to be called to an account, and as if there were no tribunal that we were to appear before. Secondly, observe that all men and women, even the elect themselves, are naturally, and as in themselves obnoxious to condemnation, and liable t…

Look to the epistles, especially those written to the Romans and Galatians, where this question about justification is expressly, and of purpose handled, and we will find, that it is the sum of both. As, (Romans 3), where having said (verse 23) that all have sinned, and come sho…

And so He shows Himself to be infinitely just, gracious, wise and holy, in the justification of sinners. These we may see, (Romans 3:24-26) "Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ." There justice and grace shine clearly, justification…

1. That by knowledge here is meant, that by which justification is made ours, or applied to us; and that which entitles us to it; now mere speculative knowledge does not that; but it's faith embracing Him, who is made known. 2. If we compare that which is attributed to knowledge…

So, (Romans 1:17) The righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, the just shall live by faith. (Romans 3:24-25) Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through f…

And it's on this ground, that faith sometimes looks on God as able, sometimes as faithful; therefore it's said, (Hebrews 7:25) He is able to save to the uttermost; and (Hebrews 11) Sarah judged Him faithful who had promised: whereupon there is a closing with the offer in the pro…

For clearing of this, take these grounds. 1. The Scripture speaks of, and points Christ out in His sufferings, as the object of justifying faith (Romans 3:25), where God has set forth for a propitiation through faith in his blood: where the blood of Christ, and He as suffering i…

5. Follows God's imputing to that sinner, that receives Christ as He is offered, and rests upon Him by faith, His righteousness, and Christ's payment and satisfaction to justice is counted his, and according to this, his sins are pardoned, for the merit of that righteousness, an…

2. Consider the peculiar phrases, that the Scripture uses to this purpose, and where we are said to be justified by faith; there is a sort of causality attributed to faith, that can be attributed to no other grace, nor works; hence the righteousness of Christ is called the right…

2. That a believer who is justified should be very humble, for he was a sinner as well as others, and is still a sinner in part; therefore it becomes him to walk [reconstructed: softly], with a stopped mouth, and to be tender and compassionate towards other sinners; there is not…

Indeed, the law was a severer teacher to awe the saints, in regard of the outward dispensation of ceremonies and legal strictness, keeping men as criminals in close prison until Christ should come. But imputation of Christ's righteousness, and blessedness in the pardon of sin, a…

Now Peter (Acts 2) poured vinegar and wine at first on the wounds of his hearers, when he said, 'You murdered the Lord of glory'; and they were pricked in their heart. This is the law's work (Romans 3), to condemn and stop the sinner's mouth. And you cannot say that Peter failed…

For Christ rebukes the Sadducees, You err not knowing the Scriptures, etc., because they believed not the consequences of Scripture as Scripture, and made not the like discourse, for the building of themselves in the faith. 3. The searching of the Scriptures is life eternal, the…

All these and many other places show the contrary. And the redemption that is in Jesus Christ (Romans 3:24) is not a redemption which might have been confined within Christ to reconcile God to himself, and which might consist with the final, total and utter perishing of all mank…

It is Christ that paid the price, that performed the righteousness by which we are justified, and it is God that accepts of it and imputes it to us; therefore justification is ascribed to both. And this we have, Romans 3:24, where it is attributed to them both together: 'Being j…

And thus also do the seals of the promises (the sacraments) present Christ to a believer's eye: as they hold forth Christ (as was in the former direction observed), so Christ as crucified, their scope being to show forth his death till he come (1 Corinthians 11:26), the bread si…

Justice will be known to be justice and dealt with upon its own terms, and grace will be acknowledged to be free grace throughout the accomplishment of our salvation. You have both these joined in Romans 3:23–25: 'Being justified freely through his grace by the redemption that i…

As the Apostle tells you, we none of us do good, and which is worse, we can do no good; indeed, and still, which is worse, we would do no good if we could; this is the estate of us all by nature. The Lord looked down from heaven, to see if any of them did good, but they are alto…

Well then the books of the Old Testament are frequently and solemnly thus called, Law and Prophets; the Messiah was spoken of and foretold in both, and the godly before his coming waited for him as such. One place I had almost forgotten, (Romans 3:21) the righteousness of God wi…

He paid a perfect ransom for us, besides or above which he craved no more, but rested fully content in it; for the other, the renovation of man's nature, to put him into a capacity to serve and please God, for God would not admit us to privileges without change of heart, and dis…

I conclude therefore that faith only justifies and brings life without works. Paul cannot suffer this addition: faith joined with works justifies: but he proceeds simply by the negative (Romans 3) and before in the second chapter: Therefore by the works of the law (says he) shal…

It is not without cause then, that Paul calls it the yoke of bondage. For as we have often said before, the law does but reveal, increase and aggravate sin, accuse, terrify, condemn, and generate wrath, and finally it drives poor consciences into desperation, which is the most m…

By his own blood has he entered into the holy place once for all, and obtained eternal redemption for us (Hebrews 9). Also (Romans 3): And we are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God has set forth to be a reconciliation to us thr…

Phil 1:29. justification is freely by Grace. Rom 3:24. Loue is by grace. 1.

And the office of the Church, is no more but to gather, declare, testifie, and pronounce this sentence. It is obiected, that when a question is propounded, the scripture cannot speake, nor Christ in the Scripture, but the Church onely: I answer againe, that God ascribes to the w…

Justification before men, is, when such as profess faith in Christ, are reputed just of men. By this distinction, Paul who says, that a man is justified by faith without works (Romans 3:28), and James, who says, that Abraham was justified by faith, and works (James 2:24), are re…

In the old testament, they which sought to God, came to the Arke or Propitiatorie, and there were they heard, and received the blessings of God. Now Christ, God and man, is in stead of the Arke, Rom 3:25. and therefore we must come to him, if we would receive any good thing of G…

But this interpretation is against the whole scope of this Epistle, in which Paul proves that there is no justification by the law (chapter 5, verse 4), and therefore no justification by love. Again, Paul says (Romans 3:21), that righteousness is revealed without the law: and th…

4. The law promises eternal life upon condition of works: Do this, and live: If you will enter into life, keep the commandments. The Gospel promises eternal life freely without any condition of works (Romans 4:5), To him that works not, but believes in him that justifies the ung…

Of works? No, but by the law of faith (Romans 3:27). Also, if Abraham were justified by works, he had wherein to glory, but not with God (Romans 4:2).

God forbid. Romans 3:3. Indeed, let God be true, and every man a liar. And to say the truth, if he did not overcome men's stubbornness by his goodness, we should incontinently perish.