Glorying is Excluded

For if he were justified by works or inherent righteousness, he would seem to have something in which to glory; but when he is justified by faith (which gives nothing to God, but only receives) all glorying is excluded.

 

Francis Turretin, Institutes of Elenctic Theology, 16.7.19, ed. James T. Dennison Jr., trans. George Musgrave Giger, vol. 2 (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 1992–1997), 674.