| Philip Schaff - 1877 - 948 pages
...made partakers of him and all his benefits. OF JUSTIFICATION AND FAITH. 34. We are accounted righteous before God only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, applied by faith, and not for our own works or merits. And this righteousness, which we so receive... | |
| James Ussher - 1660 - 628 pages
...meaning is this, as it is in the articles of the Church of England, that " we are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith, and not for our own works and deservings ;" that is, for the merits of Jesus Christ, God is well pleased with the obedience of... | |
| Church of England articles - 1855 - 76 pages
...working with us, when we have that good will. XI. Oftlie Justification of Man. WE are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour...largely is expressed in the Homily of Justification. XII. Of Good Works. ALBEIT that Good Works, which are the fruits of Faith, and follow after Justification,... | |
| Joseph Horler - 1739 - 386 pages
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| James Neale - 1760 - 52 pages
...confeffing thereby that great fcripture truth taught in our Church, that we are accounted righteous before GOD, only for the merit of our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST by faith and not by our own works or defervings ; and I truft in GOD his prayer is heard, and his forrow now turned... | |
| George Whitefield - 1771 - 494 pages
...his own natural ftrength and good " to faith and calKng upon GoD. That we are accounted " righteous before GoD, only for the merit of our LoRD and "•...JESUS CHRIST, by faith, and not for our own " works or defervings. That albeit good works, which are " fruits of faith, and follow after juftification, cannot... | |
| George Whitefield - 1772 - 490 pages
...Eleventh Artide of our Church : " We are ac<•' counted righteous before GOD, only for the merits of our *' Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST by faith, and not for our •' own works or defcrvings." This dodtrine of our free juftification by faith in CHRIST JESUS, howevir cenlurcd and... | |
| James Hervey - 1792 - 496 pages
...how can you fubfcribe that emphatical article, which declares, " We are accounted righteous be" fore GOD, only for the merit of our LORD and " SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST." Surely, Sir, you are accounted righteous, for the fake of that, what* Thefe are Mr. Wcfi y's own words,... | |
| Joseph Milner - 1812 - 538 pages
...most wholesome and very lull of comfort," namely, the doctrine of justification " before God, only tor the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, by faith, and not for our own works or deservings *," is preached by a bishop of the eleventh century. So strong was the provision made by the God of... | |
| John Wesley, George Story - 1818 - 934 pages
...what we further learn, that, touching the article of our justification, we are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour...by faith, and not for our own works or deservings. Who we have done all, we are still but unprofitable servants. Instead of being inflated with I know... | |
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