Crudelitas Gallica

In the meantime, however, we acknowledge that Jesus Christ does not only justify us, with all our faults and sins covered, but also sanctifies us by His Spirit: so that these two things (namely, obtaining the gratuitous remission of sins, and being formed for a holy life) cannot be torn asunder and separated from each other. Yet, because as long as we depart from this world, many impurities and very many vices always remain in us (which is why whatever good works we produce by the power of the Holy Spirit are infected by some blemish), therefore we must always flee to that gratuitous justice flowing from the obedience which Jesus Christ performed in our name, since in His name we are accepted, and God does not impute our sins to us.

We confess that we become participants in Jesus Christ, and in all His good things, through the faith that we have in the Gospel, when we are truly and certainly persuaded that the promises contained in it pertain to us. Since, however, that matter exceeds all our capacity, we acknowledge that faith does not befall us other than through the Holy Spirit, and is therefore a peculiar gift, which is given to the elect alone, whom God, before the world was created, without any regard for dignity or any virtue of their own, gratuitously predestined to the inheritance of salvation.

We confess that we are justified through faith, insofar as through it we apprehend Jesus Christ as the mediator given to us by the Father, and we lean upon the promises of the Gospel, by which God testifies that we are held by Him as just, and pure from every stain, because our sins have been erased by the blood of His son. Therefore, we detest the deliriums of those who attempt to persuade [us] that the essential justice of God is in us, and to whom not...