If you ask the last question concerning a man's faith, you must resolve it into the word of God: there are, indeed, many questions that go before it, but this must be the last. If you ask, How may a sinner be saved? The answer is, By the righteousness of Christ. If you ask again, Who is this Jesus Christ, whose righteousness will be the salvation of all them that have it? He is the great Son of God, that took our sins on him. Well, but how shall this righteousness be mine? By faith alone: if I lay hold of it, and venture my soul on it, it is mine! Aye, but the last question is, How do you know that it shall be so? God hath said it in his word. Acts x. 43, "To him give all the prophets witness, that, through his name, whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins."
Robert Traill — Sermon II on Galatians 2:21, in Select Practical Writings of Robert Traill (Edinburgh: Printed for the Assembly's Committee of the Free Church of Scotland, 1845), pp. 39-40
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