A true and genuine faith, is the root and principle of all evangelical repentance; it is the instrumental cause of a sinner’s justification, by which he yields his assent to this true and faithful saying, “That Jesus Christ came to save the chief of sinners.” “Who loved me, and gave himself for me.” So that as I elsewhere told you, we can have no idea of a saving repentance without faith; nor a saving faith, without taking into our consideration Christ and him crucified; dying, to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself—In a word, faith and repentance have no share in the purchase of redemption: We are not redeemed, because we repent and believe; but because Christ died.

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