 Faith thus receiving and resting on Christ, and his righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification ; yet it is not alone in the person justified, but is ever accompanied with all other saving graces, and is no dead faith, but worketh by love.  New Englander and Yale Review - Page 117publié par - 1867Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | J. R. Broome - 1988 - 62 pages
...which Faith they have not of themselves, it is the gift of God. 2. Faith, thus receiving and resting on Christ and His righteousness, is the alone instrument...graces, and is no dead Faith, but worketh by love. 3. Christ, by His obedience and death, did fully discharge the debt of all those that are thus justified,... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 1964 - 324 pages
...shall I lift up my head. The noble Westminster Confession states that: Faith, receiving and resting on Christ and His Righteousness, is the alone instrument...is ever accompanied with all other saving graces. 210 211 5. /t is essential to exhibit practical righteousness in everyday life. We deceive ourselves... | |
 | 1993 - 842 pages
...receiving and resting on Christ and His righteousness is the alone instrument of justification: yet is it not alone in the person justified, but is ever accompanied...all other saving graces, and is no dead faith, but works by love. lll. Christ, by His obedience and death, did fully discharge the debt of all those that... | |
 | James Innell Packer - 1994 - 372 pages
...First, they reaffirmed the Reformers' point, that 'faith . . . the alone instrument of justification ... is ... not alone in the person justified, but is ever...graces, and is no dead faith, but worketh by love' (Westminster Confession, XI:ii). Second they emphasised that justifying faith is given by God through... | |
 | Anthony A. Hoekema - 1994 - 296 pages
...receiving and resting on Christ and his righteousness, is the [only] instrument of justification; yet is it not alone in the person justified, but is ever accompanied...saving graces, and is no dead faith, but worketh by love.59 Two additional points are here made: (6) faith is the only instrument for receiving justification;... | |
 | William Cathcart - 2001 - 502 pages
...faith, which they have not of themselves : it is the gift of God. 2. Faith thus receiving and resting on Christ and his righteousness, is the alone instrument...is ever accompanied with all other saving graces, ond is no dead faith, but worketh by love. 3. Christ, by his obedience and death, did fully discharge... | |
 | Catechism - 2002 - 148 pages
...of God. 2. Faith thus receiving and resting on Christ, and his righteousness, is the (Rom. iii. 28) alone instrument of justification : yet it is not...with all other saving graces, and is no dead faith, (Gal. v. 6; James ii. 17, 22, 26) but worketh by love. 3 . Christ, by his obedience and death, did... | |
 | Scott J. Hafemann - 2002 - 304 pages
...(Institutes 3.16.1). A century later the Westminster Confession echoed this in saying, "[Justifying faith] is not alone in the person justified, but is ever accompanied with all other saving graces, and [so] is no dead faith, but works by love" (11.2, emphasis added). Paul, however, spoke of going through... | |
 | Louis Berkhof - 2007 - 180 pages
...which faith they have not of themselves, it is the gift of Cod. 2. Faith, thus receiving and resting on Christ, and His righteousness, is the alone instrument...graces, and is no dead faith, but worketh by love. 3. Christ, by His obedience and death, did fully discharge the debt of all those that are thus justified,... | |
 | W. Gary Crampton - 2004 - 270 pages
...James 2:26). As taught in the Westminster Confession (11:2): "Faith, thus receiving and resting on Christ and His righteousness, is the alone instrument...all other saving graces, and is no dead faith, but works by love." These good works, then, says the Confession (16:2), "are the fruits and evidences of... | |
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