We cannot preach the righteousness of Christ, for justification, with any propriety, unless, as the first thing, to show the sinner's need thereof, we preach the righteousness of the law in the condemnation of every soul that sinneth. No more can we preach the righteousness of Christ, for justification, with any justice, unless, beside its need and nature, we preach its fruits, and trace them out in all their branches, and show how they all spring out only and necessarily of a true and lively faith. Thus does the doctrine of faith embrace, on one hand, the righteousness of the law in the condemnation of the sinner, bringing him to Christ that he may be justified by faith; and on the other, that same righteousness, in the sanctification of the believer, witnessing that he is in Christ, and is justified by faith.

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