今日真道圣言/2013年6月1日

威斯敏斯特大要理问答

69问：无形教会的会员，在恩典中与基督的相交，是指什么？

答：无形教会的会员，在恩典中与基督的相交，是有分于中保基督所作成的救赎果效，使他们得以称义，得儿女名分，成圣，以及今生一切的福分，这都显明他们是与基督联合。

Q. 69. What is the communion in grace which the members of the invisible church have with Christ?

A. The communion in grace which the members of the invisible church have with Christ, is their partaking of the virtue of his mediation, in their justification, adoption, sanctification, and whatever else, in this life, manifests their union with him.

70问：「称义」是什么？

答：称义是神的作为，祂将白白的恩典赐给罪人，借此祂赦免他们一切的罪，接纳他们，使他们在祂面前被算为义；这并非因在他们里面成就了什么，或他们作了什么，乃是唯独因为基督的完美顺服与偿清罪债；神将此归算在他们身上，并且是唯独借着信心领受的。

Q. 70. What is justification?

A. Justification is an act of God's free grace unto sinners, in which he pardoneth all their sins, accepteth and accounteth their persons righteous in his sight; not for anything wrought in them, or done by them, but only for the perfect obedience and full satisfaction of Christ, by God imputed to them, and received by faith alone.

71问：为何「称义」是神白白恩典的作为？

答：虽然基督借着顺服与受死，的确为我们向神献上赎罪，这是适当，真实与完全的满足了神公义的要求。然而，事实上：

（1）神可以定规我们要自己负责，然而神接纳借着中保代赎来满足祂公义的要求

（2）神亲自赐下这位中保，就是祂的独生子，将祂儿子的义归算给我们，

（3）我们得以称义并非出于我们自己，唯独是借着信，连这信心也是祂所赐的；

所以，我们得以称义，对我们而言，完全是神白白的恩典。

Q. 71. How is justification an act of God's free grace?

A. Although Christ, by his obedience and death, did make a proper, real, and full satisfaction to God's justice in the behalf of them that are justified; yet inasmuch as God accepteth the satisfaction from a surety, which he might have demanded of them, and did provide this surety, his own only Son, imputing his righteousness to them, and requiring nothing of them for their justification but faith, which also is his gift, their justification is to them of free grace.

72问：「称义的信心」是什么？

答：称义的信心是拯救的恩典，圣灵与神的道在罪人心中做成的。借此恩典：

（1）罪人确知自己的罪与苦况，以及自己与所有其他受造物都不能拯救他脱离其失丧的情况；

（2）他不仅是认同福音应许的真理，更是领受与依靠基督与祂的义；

（3）他因此罪得赦免，在神面前得蒙悦纳，被算为义，以致得救。

Q. 72. What is justifying faith?

A. Justifying faith is a saving grace, wrought in the heart of a sinner by the Spirit and Word of God, whereby he, being convinced of his sin and misery, and of the disability in himself and all other creatures to recover him out of his lost condition, not only assenteth to the truth of the promise of the gospel, but receiveth and resteth upon Christ and his righteousness, therein held forth, for pardon of sin, and for the accepting and accounting of his person righteous in the sight of God for salvation.

73问：信心如何使罪人在神面前得称为义？

答：信心使罪人在神面前得称为义，

（1）并非因为那些必与之俱来的其他恩惠，也不是因为信心所结的善行之果，也不是因为将信心的恩惠（或因之而来的行为）归算在罪人身上，使他称义；

（2）只是因为信心是媒介工具，罪人借此领受并支取基督和祂的义。

Q. 73. How doth faith justify a sinner in the sight of God?

A. Faith justifies a sinner in the sight of God, not because of those other graces which do always accompany it, or of good works that are the fruits of it, nor as if the grace of faith, or any act thereof, were imputed to him for his justification; but only as it is an instrument by which he receiveth and applieth Christ and his righteousness.