 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 or deservmgs. Wherefore, that we are justified by faith only, is a most wholesome doctrine, and very full of comfort :...  A manual of the rudiments of theology - Page 351de John Bainbridge Smith - 1830 - 502 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1816 - 572 pages
...foundation can we now stand before God ?" The answer is, Upon that only which he himself hath laid ; for we are accounted righteous before God only for the...Jesus Christ, by faith; and not for our own works and deservings. Art. xi. Do you further ask, " Of what value then are these works of ours, since they... | |
 | William Hammond - 1816 - 320 pages
...to us? It is, therefore, admirably well said by our excellent Church in her eleventh Article, " \Ve are accounted " righteous before God, only for the...of our " Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith." Observe, we are accounted,* for this righteousness is not ours by nature, but we have it of the free... | |
 | Menzies Rayner - 1816 - 126 pages
...which can be construed so as to give the least countenance to such an idea? The 11th Article says, " We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our "Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, byjaith, and not for our own works or deservings." The 18th Article says, " They also are to be had... | |
 | Richard Mant (bp. of Down, Connor and Dromore.) - 1816 - 570 pages
...Church briefly comprifes the fubftance of St. Paul's do6trine on this head, it is aflerted, that " we " are accounted righteous before God, only ** FOR the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jefus tt 'c " Chrift by faith, and not FOR our own tvorlcs *' and defervings* ;" and as in the moft... | |
 | 1816 - 926 pages
...to us, and to be a sacrifice not only for original gnitt, but also for actual sins of men;' that ' we are accounted righteous before God only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesiis Christ by faith, aud not for our own works or descrvii!gn;' but 'albeit that pood works which... | |
 | Thomas Belsham - 1816 - 764 pages
...Church Articles declare to be a most wholesome doctrine.* And so important hits it • • i ' " |T^ *" We are accounted righteous before God only for the merit of " our Lord and Saviour Jesns Christ, by faith ; and not i'ot onr own "good works or dcservings. Wherefore that we are jnstificd-by... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1817 - 530 pages
...fruits of faith, and evidence it to be living; but cannot do any thing as to justification itself. For ' We are accounted ' righteous before God, only for...Jesus Christ, by faith, and not for our ' own works and deservings: wherefore that we are jus' i Hied by faith only is a most wholesome doctrine, and '... | |
 | Harriet Corp - 1817 - 168 pages
...collegian, " that is, in the words of that church of which I hope shortly to become a minister : ' We are accounted righteous before God, only for the...our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. By faith, and not by our own works or deservings. Good works are the fruits of faith, but cannot put away our sins. Yet... | |
 | 1817 - 368 pages
...but .they that are sick/' Our Reformers have declared, that a we are accounted righteous before Cod, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,...by faith, and not for our own works or deservings." " Christ," «ays the Homily of Salvation/" is the righteousness of all them that truly do believe in... | |
 | sir George Pretyman Tomline (bart, bp. of Winchester.) - 1817 - 644 pages
...Dr. Pearson refers his idea of meritorious cause. The words of the Article are, " We are justified only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Faith, without our own works or deservings." For " Faith" substitute " the merits of Christ,'' and then the... | |
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