 | Thomas Robbins - 1824 - 494 pages
...preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will. Art. XI. Of the Justification of Man. We are accounted righteous before God, only for the meril of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Faith ; and not for our own works or deservings. Wherefore,... | |
 | 1824 - 588 pages
...doctrine he is to accept by faith *. Now, the doctrine which teaches us that we are justified, or " accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ," "that we are justified by faith only," is, as the llth Article of our Church expresses it, " a most... | |
 | Church of England articles - 1825 - 130 pages
...make the doctrine of divine grace, and the doctrine of free-will or human liberty, unite and conspire to our everlasting good. The first is adapted to excite...before God only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour • Rom. iii. 20 — 25. Therefore by the deeds of the law ehall no flesh be justified in his sight... | |
 | 1038 pages
...error as truth upon a fallible authority, against the plain testimony of the Word of God. II. Believers are accounted righteous before God only for the merit...Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith, and not for their own works and deservings (Art 11). They are justified by the righteousness of Christ imputed... | |
 | James Hervey - 1825 - 418 pages
...sense, is imputed for righteousness, how can you subscribe that emphatical article which declares, " We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ?" Surely, Sir, you are accounted righteous for the sake of that, whatever it be, which stands in the... | |
 | William Pakenham Walsh (bp. of Ossory, Ferns, and Leighlin.) - 1876 - 182 pages
...parting revelation to the ancient Church,—the " wholesome doctrine and very full of comfort," that " we are accounted righteous before God only for the merit of our Lord Jesus Christ by faith, and not for our own works and deservings." (Art. XI.) We can read it now in... | |
 | 1877 - 602 pages
...the teachings of both the Old and the | New Testaments that our Church in her Xlth j Article says, " We are accounted righteous before ) God, only for...and Saviour .Jesus Christ, by faith, and not for our works and deservings." ii. Thus it was that to the Jewish mind in general this doctrine of man's demerit... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1877 - 910 pages
...preventing ns, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will. IX. OF ТИК JUSTIFICATION OF MAN. "We are accounted righteous...before God only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesns Christ by faith, and not for our own works or deservings. Wherefore, that we are justified by... | |
 | John Keble - 1877 - 374 pages
...salvation. The whole doctrine is briefly contained in the eleventh Article of the Church of England : " We are accounted righteous before God, only FOR the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ :" trust we, therefore, no more to " our own works or deservings." Again, this our pardon or justification... | |
 | James Bardsley - 1877 - 168 pages
...it is used in any other. The nth article of our Church, ' Of the justification of man,' declares,' We are accounted righteous before God only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.' This is the imputed righteousness of Christ, or justification, and is totally different and distinct... | |
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Wherefore, that we are justified by Faith only, is a most wholesome Doctrine, and very full of comfort, [as more largely is expressed in the Homily of Justification]. 
