Where is the boasting then of the Jew against the gentile? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay — This would have left room for boasting. But by the law of faith — Since this requires all, without distinction, to apply as guilty and helpless sinners, to the free mercy of God in Christ. The law of faith is that divine constitution which makes faith, not works, the condition of acceptance.

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