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Part 3, Chapter 3, On faith in Christ
http://www.projectwittenberg.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/baier/cpt-3-03.txt
1. So that sinful humans may reach eternal salvation through Christ the mediator, faith in Christ is required or, it is required that they trust in Christ as mediator.
7. However at the same time it is clear, in what way the same merit of Christ, the forgiveness of sins and life eternal, acquired by Christ for all humans, are applied to the believing through faith, so that truly the sharers of those things are restored.
Part 3, Chapter 5, On justification
http://www.projectwittenberg.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/baier/cpt-3-05.txt
1. Justification, which closely follows conversion, has a legal significance and it indicates that act, by which God the judge pronounces a human guilty of sins and so also a criminal of guilt and punishment, but the ones believing in Christ, he pronounces righteous; about which it is not established from reason, but from the evangelical Scriptures.
5. And thus to this same process of justification pertains, that God, as a judge of a human accused by the law and convicted of sin, however at the same time by believing in Christ thus he recognizes a cause, so that indeed special justice catches one to be left both to death and to eternal damnation, however he judges to pertain to him or he imputes to him the merit of Christ received by faith, so that therefore he does not fully hold for the sinner, but he absolves from the accusation and obligation to punishment.
15. It is possible to define justification, that it is an act of the divine will, by which the triune God by his free grace on account of the merits of Christ apprehended by human sinners through faith, reborn or converted, forgives sins - the cause of the following eternal salvation.
