Lord’s Day 23, Chapter 1: The Idea of Justification (2) / Chapter 2: The Ground of Justification (1)

1. The Idea Of Justification, (cont.) It should be plain, then, that, in this life, when the grace of justification is applied to the sinner, so that he hears the justifying verdict of God, and appropriates it unto himself, he finds within himself a double testimony, the one condemning, the other acquitting, the one accusing him that he has transgressed and still transgresses all the commandments of God, the other justifying him, and declaring him so perfectly righteous in the sight of God, as...