or prepared and adapted for justification; he believes in the revelation and promises of God, especially in the truth “that a sinner is justified by God’s grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;” he fears the justice, hopes in the mercy, of God, trusts that God will be merciful to him for Christ’s sake, begins “to love God as the fountain of all justice, hates and detests his sins.” “This disposition or preparation is followed by justification itself, which justification consists,
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