John Clarkston Fairbairn on the revival of justification by faith alone

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... That doctrine is so clearly revealed, and occupies so conspicuous a place throughout the sacred writings, that it is a matter of astonishment that any one who reads them should miss it. Yet, for long and weary ages, it was in a manner lost to man. God, indeed, always, even in the times of darkest superstition, had a band of witnesses upon earth. For centuries they were so few and so despised, that they might well be called “hidden ones” Without exaggeration it may be said, that to Christendom – that great truth was lost.

The discovery and revival of it at the Reformation, was life from the dead. A new impulse – the freshness and glory of a new and spiritual existence – was throughout Europe communicated to the human mind. The earth is not more invigorated, when the breezes and showers of spring, with the potent alchemy of the sun now gaining the ascendant, dispel the fogs, and relax the frozen grip of winter, causing the vegetation to teem up, and mantle bill and valley, than were the minds of men by that blessed change, for which we are too stinted in our gratitude to the Most High. ...

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