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The Doctrine of Justification: An Outline of Its History in the Church and of its Exposition from Scripture is unavailable, but you can change that!

Has the doctrine of justification always been held by the church, or was it a product of the Reformation? Was it clearly recognized prior to the Reformation? In the pages of our current title, James Buchanan answers: “The question, therefore is not,—Whether all the Fathers taught the doctrine of justification in its original purity, nor even whether any one of the Fathers was entirely exempt...

us, must still retain its forensic and judicial character, even while it is also an act of grace. For this reason Protestant divines have been careful to combine, in their definitions or descriptions of it, both its judicial and its gracious aspect, and to show that, according to the scheme of the Gospel, ‘He is faithful and just,’ while He is also ‘merciful and gracious’ ‘to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.’ ‘Justification,’ says Bishop Downhame, ‘is a most gracious
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