by George Stanley Faber
originally published in 1868
paperback; 336 pages
How does a guilty sinner find favor with and gain right standing before a holy God? Claiming her doctrine to be that of the Apostles, the Church of Rome announces that justification consists of an infusion of righteousness into the soul wherein it becomes inherent to the converted sinner. Primitive Christianity, on the other hand, is discovered to differ greatly from Rome in founding justification upon a righteousness that is utterly alien to and external to the sinner, and therefore imputed, not infused. In the one system, justification is never certain, for it must be maintained by good works; in the opposing system, justification is a gracious act of God from which good works necessarily flow, though never contributing thereunto.
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