# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_August 1861_S226
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226 Theological Axioms.

Justification admits of no more and no less.

11. Justificatio fit in instanti. (Kromayer.)

Justification takes place in an instant.

12. Apostolus particulam gratis (δωρεὰν) addit, quando ex gratia nos
justificari pronuntiat; ergo per gratiam non potest intelligi donum aliquod
nobis inhaerens, infusus quidam habitus, quo formaliter coram Deo simus
justi, sed notatur gratuitus Dei favor, in Christo et propter Christum nos
acceptans. (Gerhard.)

The apostle adds the particle "freely" (Romans 3:24, "without merit")
when he says that we are justified by grace; therefore by grace there cannot be
understood a gift inhering in us, an infused disposition
by which we should be essentially righteous before God, but there
is thereby designated the gracious good pleasure of God, which accepts us in
Christ and for Christ's sake.

13. Verbum tum ἀκουστόν, tum ὁρατόν est causa instrumentalis justificationis. (Gerhard.)

Both the audible and the visible Word is the instrumental cause of justification.

14. Promissio non accipitur, nisi fide. (Concordia.)

A promise is received only by faith.

15. Deus est noster debitor non ex commisso, sed promisso. (Kromayer.)

God is our debtor not in that we have earned anything from Him,
but in that He has promised us something.

16. Da tua, sed quae non debes, proportio et adsit,
Non aliter meritum dixeris esse tuum.

Give what is your own, but what you do not already owe; and there must also be
proportion, otherwise you cannot speak of your merit.

17. Verbum et sacramenta sunt justificationis ὄργανα δοτικὰ, fides
ληπτικόν. (Quenstedt.)

Word and sacrament are the giving, and faith the receiving,
means of justification.

18. Fides non propterea justificat, quod ipsa tam bonum opus, tamque
praeclara virtus sit, sed quia in promissione evangelii meritum Christi apprehendit. (Concordia.)

"Faith justifies not for this reason and on this account, that it is so good a
work and so fine a virtue, but because it lays hold of and receives the merit of Christ in the promise of the holy gospel."

19. Fides non ut meritum, sed ut instrumentum apprehendens ad justificationem concurrit. (Gerhard.)

Faith is active in justification not as something meritorious,
but as the apprehending instrument.

20. Aliud est διὰ τὴν πίστιν, aliud διὰ τῆς πίστεως justificari; non
justificamur propter fidem, sed per fidem. (Id.)