The only condition
And first, how are we justified by faith? In what sense is this to be understood? I answer: Faith is the condition, and the only condition, of justification. It is the condition: no one is justified but he who believes. Without faith no one is justified. And it is the only condition: this alone is sufficient for justification. Everyone who believes is justified, whatever else he has or has not. In other words: no man is justified till he believes. Every man when he believes is justified.
1771 text
III. 1. And first, how are we justified by faith? In what sense is this to be understood? I answer, faith is the condition, and the only condition of justification. It is the condition: none is justified but he that believes; without faith no man is justified. And it is the only condition; this alone is sufficient for justification. Every one that believes is justified, whatever else he has or has not. In other words: no man is justified, ’till he believes: every man when he believes is justified.
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Sermon 43 in the 1771 Works. Ephesians 2:8.
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