The Justification of a Sinner: A Treatise on Justification by Faith Alone : Wherein the Truth of That Point Is Fully Cleared, and Vindicated from the Cavils of Its Adversaries

by Pemble, William; Kistler, Don

• ISBN13: 9781573581295
• ISBN10: 1573581291
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Reformation Heritage Books
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Table of Contents

Dedication	vii
To the Christian Reader	ix
Section I
The explication of the terms: justice, righteousness, and sanctification	1	(7)
In what sense the word ``justification'' ought to be taken in the present controversy, and the difference between us and our adversaries therein	8	(10)
Refuting our adversaries' civil against our use of the word ``justification''	18	(5)
Section II
The orthodox opinion concerning the manner of justification by faith, and the refutation of popish errors in this point	23	(13)
Refuting the Arminian error, showing that faith does not justify in a proper sense, as it is an act of ours	36	(9)
Refuting the popish doctrine that other graces justify us and not faith alone	45	(24)
Section III
The righteousness whereby a man is justified before God is not his own or inherent in himself, and in this life no man has perfection of holiness inherent in him	69	(18)
No man can perfectly fulfill the law in performing all such works, both inward and outward, as each commandment requires, against which truth popish objections are answered	87	(22)
No man in this life can perform any particular good work so exactly that in every point it shall answer the rigor of the law, provedby conscience, Scriptures, and reason. Also, popish objections are answered	109	(26)
Three objections to the truth answered	135	(19)
Section IV
Justification by works makes void the covenant of grace; the difference between the law and the gospel, the use of the law, and the erroneous thinking of our adversaries in this point	154	(17)
Bellarmine's erroneous distinction of the word ``gospel''	171	(7)
Section V
Justification by fulfilling the law overthrows Christian liberty	178	(6)
Justification by works subjects us to the rigor and curse of the law	184	(11)
Section VI
The reconciliation of that seeming opposition between St. Paul and St. James in this point of justification	195	(10)
The confirmation of the orthodox reconciliation of St. James and St. Paul by a logical analysis of James 2	205	(29)
Section VII
None can be justified by their own satisfaction for the transgression of the law; also, a brief summary of popish doctrine concerning human satisfaction for sin	234	(14)
All sin is remitted unto us wholly in the fault and punishment for the satisfaction of Jesus Christ alone	248