Praise God—it is almost Sunday! We get to go back to church again! In order to help us get ready, here is Thomas Watson, as he elucidates the great doc-trine of Justification, as he wrote of it in his classic book, "A Body of Divinity."
"What is meant by justification?"It is a word borrowed from law courts, wherein a person arraigned is pro-nounced righteous, and is openly absolved. God, in justifying a person, pro-nounces him to be righteous, and looks upon him as if he had not sinned.
"What is the source of justification?
"The cause, the inward impellant motive or ground of justification, is the free grace of God: 'being justified freely by His grace.' Ambrose expounds this, as 'not of the grace wrought within us, but the free grace of God.' The first wheel that sets all the rest running is the love and favor of God; as a king freely par-dons a delinquent. Justification is a blessing spun out of the heart of free grace. God does not justify us because we are worthy, but by justifying us makes us worthy."
