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IV.Union with God through faith is followed by EVANGELICAL JUSTIFICATION: an act of free grace by which God absolves the sinner from guilt and reckons him righteous solely for Christ's merit apprehended by faith.
In the act of justification one's own merit and working are opposed.
Latin
IV. Unionem cum Deo per fidem sequitur IUSTIFICATIO EVANGELICA, quae est actus gratuitae gratiae, qua Deus peccatorem propter solum Christi meritum fide apprehensum a reatu absolvit et iustum reputat (Rom. 3:24-28; 4:5; 5:1; 2 Cor. 5:21). Opponitur in actu iustificationis proprium meritum et operatio.