1689 LBCF ch. 11: Of Justification
Source: 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith (Chapter 11) · creed
Those whom God effectually calls, he also freely justifies — not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins and accounting their persons righteous, not for anything wrought in them, but for Christ's sake alone.
Witnesses (Deuteronomy 19:15)
- manuscript_tradition: Rufinus of Aquileia, Commentary on the Apostles' Creed (c. AD 404)
- manuscript_tradition: Pirminius, De singulis libris canonicis scarapsus (c. AD 750) — earliest received form
- translation: Latin (Symbolum Apostolicum) — Western Church
- citation_tradition: Cited by every major catechism since 8th century
- republication: CCEL — Creeds of Christendom (Schaff)
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