| Paras | |
| 1 | I. The defined nature of justification |
| A. The essence of justification: pardon and acceptance | |
| 1. Negatively: it is not a moral transformation | |
| 2. Positively: it is a legal transaction | |
| B. The basis of justification | |
| 1. Negatively: not from us | |
| 2. Positively: but from Christ | |
| C. The method of justification: imputation | |
| 1. Negatively: not by imputing faith itself or evangelical obedience to us as our righteousness | |
| 2. Positively: but by imputing Christ's active and passive obedience | |
| 2 | II. Instrumental means of justification |
| A. The uniqueness of faith | |
| B. The accompaniment of faith | |
| 3 | III. The regulating design of justification |
| 4 | IV. The specified occasion of justification |
| 5 | V. The balancing reality to justification |
| 6 | VI. The unchanging uniformity of justification |
From: Samuel E. Waldron, A Modern Exposition of the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith, (Evangelical Press, 1989), p155-156. Used by permission.