 | 1821 - 948 pages
...blessing, our action is not performed in faith. Our church teaches consistently with Scripture, that " works done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration...not pleasant to God ; forasmuch as they spring not out of a lively faith in Christ Jesus." Even under the Jewish dispensation, faith was indispensable... | |
 | William Romaine - 1821 - 320 pages
...spring not from faith in Jesus Christ ; and •without faith in him it is impossible to please God. Works done before the grace of Christ and the inspiration of his Spirit are not pleasant to God. You may do many seeming acts of love, you• may be the foremost in all charitable subscriptions, you... | |
 | Sinclare Kelburn - 1821 - 392 pages
...impossible to please him :" and it lias been determined by our church, in her thirteenth article, that works done before the grace of Christ and the inspiration of his Spirit, are not pleasant to God, insomuch as they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ. It is faith working by love which renders those... | |
 | Church of England articles - 1821 - 234 pages
...that ye are my iii. 3. disciples, if ye have love one to XIII. Of Works before Justification. W ORKS done before the grace of Christ, and the Inspiration of his Spirit, are not pleasant to God, k forasmuch as they spring not of faith in * They are greatly deceived that preach repentance without... | |
 | 1821 - 790 pages
...the'l IrirteenthArticle, that "works done before the grace of Christ, or the inspiration of his Spirit, make men meet to receive grace, or as the school-authors say, deserve grace of congruity." Now if the Necessary Erudition can be proved to teacii this doctrine, the controversy, we admit is... | |
 | Whole duty - 1821 - 566 pages
...them a lively FAITH may be as evidently known, as a tree discerned by the fruit. ART. xni. Of Works before Justification. WORKS done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration of his Spirit, nre not pleasant to God ; forasmuch as they spring not of FAITH in Jesus Christ ART. xvi n. Of obtaining... | |
 | 1821 - 490 pages
...prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works to faith and calling upon God." Art. x. " Works done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration of his spirit, are not plrasant to God, forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ, New Series—vol. II. 41 neither... | |
 | Joseph Milner, Rev. Isaac Milner - 1821 - 494 pages
...deliverance from the dominion of sin, and for all holy affections, — in one word, for a NEW HEART. That " works done before the grace of Christ and the inspiration of his Spirit have the nature of sin*," Mr. M. not only concluded from the express declarations of holy writ, and... | |
 | Edward John Burrow - 1822 - 594 pages
...judgment; yet are they pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ, ...... ATtTICLB XIII. >£>f Works before Justification. Works done before the grace...forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ, ...... ARTICLE XV. Of Christ alone without Sin. .... But all we the rest, although baptized, and born... | |
 | 1822 - 412 pages
...the principles and motives of his actions. As our church expresses it in the thirteenth article, " Works done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration...forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ ; — for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done, we doubt not but... | |
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Works done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration of his Spirit, are not pleasant to God, forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ... 
