"Although therefore, we fully admit, that the obedience of Christ merited inherent righteousness for us, as Adam transfused inherited sin into his offspring; yet, at the same time, we affirm, that his obedience also is imputed to us, as though it were our personal obedience; as the very disobedience of Adam, in eating the forbidden fruit, is imputed to his posterity also, as though it had been actually and wilfully committed by them in person. And, in this sense, the obedience or righteousness of Christ is called the formal cause of our justification; because it is accepted by God, on our behalf, just as if it were our own."

— John Davenant

"The doctrine of both damnation in Adam and justification in Christ is very necessary, both so that we may worship God in this life with a peaceful conscience, and so that we may arm ourselves against various temptations of Satan and terrors of conscience."

— Michel Bérault

"Now what greater comfort is there than this, that there is one presides in the world who is so wise he cannot be mistaken, so faithful he cannot deceive, so pitiful he cannot neglect his people, and so powerful that he can make stones even to be turned into bread if he please!"

— Stephen Charnock

"Furthermore, all who are disposed to betake themselves to God, under the crook in their lot may take comfort in this, let them know that there is no crook in their lot but they may be made straight; for God made it, surely then He can mend it. He himself can make straight what He has made crooked, though none other can."

— Thomas Boston

"Justification is a gracious action of God, by His mercy toward the Elect, without any work or merit of their own, on account of the satisfaction of Christ, apprehended by true faith, remitting sins and imputing the actual obedience and righteousness of Christ, and therefore absolving us and regarding us as righteous, to this end: that God's glory may be illuminated, that we may have peace in our consciences, and that with Him guiding, we may attain eternal life."

— Franciscus Junius

"Man is justified by faith alone; because faith is that alone instrument created in the heart by the Holy Ghost, whereby a sinner lays hold of Christ his righteousness, and applies the same unto himself. There is neither hope, nor love, nor any other grace of God within man, that can do this, but faith alone."

— William Perkins

"The things that we have to choose between, are an atonement of high value, or an atonement of wide extension. The two cannot go together. And this is the real objection of Calvinism to this compromise scheme which presents itself as an improvement on its system: it universalizes the atonement at the cost of its intrinsic value, and Calvinism demands a really substitutive atonement which actually saves."

— B. B. Warfield

"Prayer is the most important subject in practical religion. All other subjects are second to it. Reading the Bible, listening to sermons, attending public worship, going to the Lord's Table—all these are very important matters. But none of them are so important as private prayer."

— J. C. Ryle

"Though the pardon of sin was bought with a more valuable price than ever anything else was, or can be bought; yet in that God accepted such a price at the hands of His only begotten Son—in whom He was well pleased—for them that were His enemies, and in whose eternal confusion He might have glorified Himself, He does therein as graciously and mercifully pardon us, as if He had done it freely, without any price at all. Yea, the greater the satisfaction was, the more was His mercy and grace in pardoning by such a means."

— William Bradshaw

"The foundation of God’s command unto men to use the means granted them is not Christ’s dying for them in particular, but the connection which himself, by his decree, hath fixed between these two things, faith and salvation; the death of Christ being abundantly sufficient for the holding out of that connection unto all, there being enough in it to save all believers."

— John Owen

Yes, we would.

Yes, we would.

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