Doctrine of Justification by Faith
Owen's comprehensive treatise on justification by faith alone, defending the Reformed doctrine that sinners are declared righteous before God solely through faith in Christ's imputed righteousness, against both Roman Catholic and Socinian challenges.
19 Chapters
Table of Contents
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Chapter I. Justifiying faith; the causes and object of it
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Chapter II. The nature of justifying faith
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Chapter III. The use of faith in justification; its especial
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Chapter IV. Of justification; the notion and signification
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Chapter V. The distinction of a first and second
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Chapter VI. Evangelical personal righteousness, the
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Chapter VII. Imputation, and the nature of it; with the
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Chapter VIII. Imputation of the sins of the church unto
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Chapter IX. The formal cause of justification, or the
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Chapter X. Arguments of justification by the imputation
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Chapter XI. The nature of the obedience that God requires of us. The eternal obligation of the law thereunto.
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Chapter XIII. The nature of justification proved from the
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Chapter XIV. The exclusion of all sorts of works from
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Chapter XV. Faith alone
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Chapter XVI. The truth pleaded farther confirmed by
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Chapter XVII. Testimonies out of the evangelists
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Chapter XVIII. The nature of justification as declared in
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Chapter XIX. Objections against the doctrine of justification by the imputation of righteousness of Christ. Personal holiness and obedience not obstructed, but furthered by it.
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Chapter XX. The doctrine of the apostle James