By Grace Alone
According to the magisterial Reformers and their orthodox heirs, justification is an act of grace in which God forgives believing sinners and counts them righteous through faith in Jesus Christ alone. More precisely, they generally agreed that justification is a forensic or judicial act of God (actus forensis) in which he does two inseparable things: negatively, he pardons or forgives individual believers of all their sins (instificatio nega-tiva), and positively, he counts or declares them righteous in his sight (iustificatio activa).
Believing sinners are pardoned and declared righteous by a single judicial act of grace that, contrary to all cooperative or synergistic formulations, does not take into account or leave room for any active contribution on the part of the justified (sola gratia).
— Bruce P. Baugus, 769.
iustitia aliena 
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