JUSTIFICATION

Lat. transl. of the Greek word Kaiuats.) In Theology, men are said to be justified when accounted just or righteous in the sight of God, or placed a state of salvation. Justification is used of the state Christians in the present life only; as in Rom., v., 9, ing justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him." The doctrine of justification through or rather by faith (tic m^rto)?, 6ia mom for or by reason faith) is set out with peculiar distinctne in the whole Epistle to the Romans. According to the eleventh article of the Church of England, we are justified "by faith, not of our works or deservings." The twelfth declares, that " although good works, which are the fruits of faith, and follow after justification, cannot put away our sins endure the severity of God's judgment, yet are they pleasing and acceptable to God In Christ, and spring nece arily of a true and lively faith, insomuch that by them a lively faith may be as evidently known as a tree is discerned the fruit"623 The first of these articles is chiefly directed [s. 642]