When We Were Without Strength
Ryan Bush:
Justification is an act of God's free grace unto sinners, in which He pardoneth all their sin, accepteth and accounteth their persons righteous in His sight. Not for anything wrought in them or done by them, but only for the perfect obedience and full satisfaction of Christ. By God imputed to them, and received by faith alone. This is true and clear. God alone justifies. None else can do it. None has power to do it. It is one of God's highest rights. It is his peculiar privilege. He is the justifier. Man's justification is all of grace, undeserved kindness, unmerited mercy. When we were yet without strength, in due time, Christ died for the ungodly. William Swan Plummer.