The source from which our justification springs is grace, God’s love—“being justified freely by his grace.” The ground upon which it is based, is the sacrifice of Christ, “whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood.” The medium by means of which it is received is faith; a faith that procures the possession of the Holy Spirit, and involves repentance. The declared purpose of this grace is, “that God might be just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus.” The result is, “we are found in him, not having our own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, even the righteousness of God by faith.”

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