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“The authority of God is the reason for our believing. Our faith is not nor can be as large as God's mouth. "Whatever He bids you do, do it," said our Savior's mother to the waiters at the feast (John 2). So whatever God speaks, we must believe. It is impossible that God should lie (Hebrews 6:18).”

“The papists will not deny all imputed righteousness; but then they say that the righteousness which God imputes to us is inherent righteousness, grace within us. But how then does He justify the ungodly? How does He justify the sinner who has no grace? As I have before proved, justification finds men ungodly, though it does not leave them so…herein they confound justification and sanctification, faith and works.

“Witness [Cardinal, Robert] Bellarmine's final statement:
him, "It is the safest way to trust only to the merits of Christ for life and salvation." He said as much in a clause in his will. Cardinal Poole rigorously contended at the council of Trent (though in vain) for justification to be determined by faith alone. The theology in these mens' consciences was purer than that in their heads.”

“What is the reason that many Christians are so unfixed in their thoughts of themselves and their conditions, and are at such ebbs and flows in their opinion of their estates, but because their eye is more upon what is in them and what is done by them than what is in Christ and what He did for them; it is good to look at home, but not to rest here.”