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Volume Eight includes Goodwin’s work on justification. He acknowledges the theological truth that we are saved by grace through faith—but how does that inform the life and thought of believers? Goodwin writes extensively the nature and object of faith, and the relationship between grace and faith. He also explores the ways in which faith is represented in the lives of believers, and concludes...

sense we are only said to be justified by faith, then it is evident that faith by apprehending these, and by no other act, is said to justify us. Therefore, do but see the mystery of other opinions. What is the reason that the papists say, that faith alone in Christ doth not justify? This is the true mystery of it, they do not hold that the grace of God is the justifier of us, nor the righteousness of Christ the matter of our justification, therefore faith doth not justify in respect of its object
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