Note 9 — A Confession of Faith.

This doctrine of a Sinner’s justification before God, as exprest in this Article, is held forth in almost every part of God’s Word that relates to our Salvation. This doctrine, however despised in our day by modern Pharisees, is a glorious and a precious truth: it was received by our Reformers, as noted in the Eleventh Article of the Church of England, on the justification of Man. “We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, by faith, and not for our own works or deservings: Wherefore, that we are justified by faith only, is a most wholesome doctrine, and very full of comfort, as more largely is expressed in the Homily of justification.” See also, the Thirty-third Article in the Assembly’s Catechism: “Justification is an act of God’s free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous in his sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone.” Happy Believer, that can say in sweet assurance,