The faith demanded of you by the Gospel is not only to believe the testimony of God concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, but is also a reliance of soul upon his satisfaction for life and salvation. We are not justified for faith, as if it were of itself a sufficient righteousness; but by grace, through faith in Messiah. Those who believe in Christ, receive Christ; and faith is the act by which they receive him. It is the hand extended to take the gift which Jehovah freely bestows. The sole office of faith therefore, so far as justification is concerned, is to put us in possession of a righteousness by which we are accounted righteous.

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