"Where is boasting then?" the Apostle asks. "It is excluded. By what law? Of works? Nay, but by the law of faith." Faith would not exclude boasting, if it justified us as itself a work, or as the root and foundation of all works. It is both indeed; but yet it is not in either of these characters that it justifies us; but because it sends us straight to Christ, that we may be found in Him, not having our own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.

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