Thus, God is graciously justifying man by the infusion of this virtue of faith. Thomas Aquinas says it best: God’s justice is said to exist through faith in Christ Jesus, not as though by faith we merit being justified, as if faith exists from ourselves and through it we merit God’s justice, as the Pelagians assert; but because in the very justification, by which we are made just by God, the first motion of the mind toward God is through faith… Hence faith, as the first part of justice, is given to us by God: by grace you have been saved through faith… But this faith, out of which justice
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