 | Girolamo Zanchi, Augustus Toplady - Calvinism - 1811 - 312 pages
...that till a man is justified by faith, he can do no good works at all. ARTICLE XIII. Of works done before justification. — " Works done before the...Christ, and the inspiration of his Spirit, are not * Rom. z. 3. to God :" and, if so, how is it possible that he should justify us on account of them... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Calvinism - 1811 - 824 pages
...follow after justification, ' cannot put away our sins, and endure the severity ' of God's judgment.' ' Works done before the grace ' of Christ, and the inspiration of his Spirit, are not ' pleasant unto God : — we doubt not but they have 'the nature of sin.'1 P. ccclxxxv. 1. 6. ' No seed, &c.'2... | |
 | Micaiah Towgood - 1811 - 340 pages
...in every person born into this world, it *' deserveth God's WKATH and DAMNATION."" Art. XII[. " That works, done before the grace " of Christ, and the inspiration of his Spirit, are " not pleasing to God, forasmuch as they spring " not of faith in Jesus Christ,. neither do they " make men... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Calvinism - 1811 - 408 pages
...ourselves icorihy the mediation • "of Christ, ' by holiness of living, and' abhorrence of vice.'8 — 1 ' Works done before the' grace of Christ, and the ' '"inspiration of his Spirit, are -riot pleasant unto '' God, forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Jesus ' ' Christ: neither do they... | |
 | Missions - 1811 - 568 pages
...language can express this more decidedly than that of the 13th Article of the Church of England. ' Works done before the grace of Christ and the inspiration...they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ ; neither da they make incn meet to receive grace, or deserve grace of congruity ; yea, rather, for that they... | |
 | John Allen - 1812 - 172 pages
...yet being directed to a wrong end it becomes sin. — Institut. I. 3. c. 14. 5.3. CHURCH OF ENGLAND. Works done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration of his Spirit, are not pleasant to God, forasCALVIN. . We lay it down therefore as an undoubted truth, which ought to be well khown to such... | |
 | Joseph Bellamy - Congregational churches - 1812 - 564 pages
...obedience to God in what they do.' And thus it is said by the church of England, in her 39 articles ; ' Works done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration of his spirit, are not pleasant to God. Yea, rather, for that they are not done as God hath commanded and willed them to be done, we doubt... | |
 | Joseph Bellamy - 1812 - 702 pages
...obedience to God in what they do.' And thus it is said by the church of England, in her 39 articles ; ' Works done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration of his spirit, are not pleasant to God. Yea, rather, for that they are not done as God hath commanded and willed them to be done, we doubt... | |
 | Micaiah Towgood - Dissenters - 1812 - 610 pages
...Again in Article XIII. The church teaches and obliges all her clergy to believe and to tench, " TTtat works done before the grace of Christ and the inspiration of his spirit, are not pleasing to God, forasmuch as they spring not of faith, iu Jesus Christ ; neither do they make men... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1812 - 446 pages
...grow before the tree ? But let us hear the Church, speaking yet more plainly. ART. XIII. Of Works done before Justification. " Works done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration of his Spirit, (ie before justification, as the title expresses it,) are not pleasant to God, forasmuch as they spring... | |
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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... 
