Justification by Faith Alone

Sixth Sermon of the First Decade

We are now at Bullinger’s third and final sermon on faith. In Sermon Four, Bullinger provided a definition of faith; in Sermon Five, Bullinger discussed its oneness and virtues. At the very end of the fifth sermon, after treating some of what faith accomplishes — granting us wisdom, making us happy, uniting us with God — he says that he will devote an entire sermon to one particular virtue of faith, namely, that faith justifies. This is the topic of the sixth sermon: “That the faithful are justified by faith, without the law and works.”