Exposition of the Canons, Second Head of Doctrine, Of the Death of Christ, and the Redemption of Men Thereby: Rejection of Errors, Article 4

Article IV. Who teach: That the new covenant of grace, which God the, Father, through the mediation of the death of Christ, made with man, does not herein consist, that we by faith, in as much as it accepts the merits of Christ, are justified before God and saved, but in the fact that- God having revoked the demand of perfect obedience of the law, regards faith itself and the obedience of faith, although imperfect, as the perfect obedience of then law, and does esteem it worthy of the reward of...