justification by faith alone.2144 He continued it as the central doctrine of Christianity and American Protestantism, affirming it in “God Glorified in Man’s Dependence” (1731), proving it in “Justification by Faith” (1734), establishing its metaphysical foundation in Freedom of the Will (1754), and expounding it in numerous published and unpublished sermons. He connected it inseparably with the covenant of grace, showing that covenant theology so far from being “incipient Arminianism” was the antithesis