CHAPTER VII NOT FAITH, BUT CHRIST OUR justification is the direct result of our believing the gospel; our knowledge of our own justification comes from our believing God’s promise of justification to every one who believes these glad tidings. For there is not only the divine testimony, but there is the promise annexed to it, assuring eternal life to every one who receives that testimony. There is first, then, a believed gospel, and then there is a believed promise. The latter is the ‘appropriation,’