Justification

I’ve been going through this book called Justification Vindicated by Robert Traill.  It’s been a good read and has actually been challenging me a bit on various points he makes throughout the book.  It’s a pretty short read and broken down well.  Here a little snippet from a chapter I recently finished.

Context
The chapter is called Advantages of the True Doctrine of Justification.  In it he has several subtitles that he then elaborates on.  The one I wanted to share with you comes from the subtitle called ‘It (justification) is that doctrine only by which a convinced sinner can be dealt with effectually’.  In it he is explaining an interaction you might have with a person who asks the question “what must I do to be saved”.  

Quote: 
“If he should say, ‘What is it to believe on Jesus Christ?’, I find no such question in the Word.  All did in some way understand the notion of it: the Jews that did not believe on him (John 6:28-30); the chief priests and Pharisees (John 7:48); the blind man (John 10:35).  When Christ asked him, “Believest thou on the Son of God?”. he answered, ‘Who is he, Lord, that I may believe on him?’  Immediately, when Christ told him, verse 37, he does not say, ‘What is it to believe on him?’ but, ‘Lord, I believe’, and worshipped him.  And so he both professed and put into practice faith in him.  So the father of the lunatic (Mark 9:23-24), and the eunuch (Acts 8:37).  They all, both Christ’s enemies and his disciples, knew that faith in him was a believing that the man Jesus of Nazareth was the Son of God, the Messiah, the Saviour of the world, so as to receive, and look for salvation in his name (Acts 4:12).  This was the common report, published by Christ and his apostles and disciples, and known by al that heart it.
If he still asks what he is to believe, tell him that he is not called to believe that he is in Christ, that his sins are pardoned, and he is a justified man; but that he is to believe God’s report concerning Christ (1 John 5:10-12), and this record is that God gives (that is, offers) to us eternal life in his Son Jesus Christ, and that all that with the heart believe this report, and rest their souls on these glad tidings, shall be saved (Rom. 10:9-10).  And thus he is to believe that he may be justified (Gal. 2:16).”

Here are some videos that are along this same line.