5 Solas Quotes

Indeed it remains till death, and it is sin considered in itself, so long as it remains, but it is not imputed unto the person: and in that respect is as though it were not; it being pardoned.

— William Perkins, A Reformed Catholic, Of Original Sin

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Sin, however, though it ceases to reign, ceases not to dwell in them. … We admit that these remains, just as if they had no existence, are not imputed, but we, at the same time, contend that it is owing to the mercy of God that the saints are not charged with the guilt which would otherwise make them sinners before God.

— John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 3.3.11

The commanding power of the law in positive precepts and prohibitions, which justified persons are subject unto, does make and constitute all their unconformities unto it to be no less truly and properly sins in their own nature, than they would be if their persons were obnoxious unto the curse of it.

— John Owen, The Doctrine of Justification by Faith, ch. 5

We teach that the guilt of sin as to its legal being is entirely taken away, so that the obligation to punishment is removed, and the power obligating to condemnation; but sin remains as to its real being, and physical inherence.

— Samuel Rutherford, Examination of Arminianism, ch. 6 (On Original Sin)
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It is one thing that there should be no condemnation in the renewed; another that they are worthy of condemnation and of hatred. The former Paul states in Rom. 8:1 because actual guilt is removed by the grace of justification, but not the latter.

— Francis Turretin, Institutes of Elenctic Theology, 9.11.23
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