 | Thomas Robbins - 1824 - 494 pages
...insomuch that by them a lively faith may be as evidently known, as a tree discerned by the fruit, Art. XIII. Of Works before Justification. Works done before...do they make men meet to receive grace, or (as the School-Authors say) deserve grace of congruity ; yea rather, for that they are not done as God hath... | |
 | Hinduism - 1824 - 484 pages
...insomuch that by them a lively faith may l>e as evidently known, as a tree discerned by the fruit, Art. XIII. Of Works before Justification. Works done before...do they make men meet to receive grace, or (as the School-Authors say) deserve grace of congruity ; yea rather, for that they are not done as God hath... | |
 | David Williamson - 1824 - 416 pages
...fall into an absurdity of precisely the same kind. Besides, the thirteenth Article declares that '' Works done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration...do they make men meet to receive grace, or (as the School-authors say) deserve grace of congruity : yea rather, for that they are not done as God hath... | |
 | David Williamson - 1824 - 802 pages
...fall into an absurdity of precisely the same kind. Besides, the thirteenth Article declares that " Works done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration...do they make men meet to receive grace, or (as the School-authors say) deserve grace of congruity : yea rather, for that they are not done as God hath,... | |
 | Christian life - 1869 - 346 pages
...for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, by faith, and not for our own works or deservings Works done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration...Christ, neither do they make men meet to receive grace : yea rather, for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done, we doubt... | |
 | Relapse - English fiction - 1824 - 230 pages
...relapse," until she read, in the words of that inimitably clear and excellent Article (the xiiith), that " works done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration...forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ," She now entered into that expression of the old Divine, that such performances are but " splendid sins... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1824 - 634 pages
...hefore the grace of Christ, and the Inspiratinn y* of his Spirit,are not pleasant to God, fomsmuch as they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ, neither...do they make men meet to receive grace, or (as the School-anthors say) deserve grace of congruity : yea rather, for that they are not done aa God hath... | |
 | Frank Hill Perrycoste - Ethics - 1910 - 286 pages
...Anglicans, it is also the doctrine of the Church of England, which says distinctly in her 13th Article that "works done before the grace of Christ and the inspiration...spring not of faith in Jesus Christ, neither do they 66 On this see Lecky's Engld., vol. ii. "I Ibid., pp. 539-540. 68 Jenyns's Internal Evidences of Christy.,... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - Church and state - 1910 - 510 pages
...nature of sin. In the body of the Article this is predicated, not of works before justification, but of 'works done before the grace of Christ and the inspiration of His Spirit.' That is a different matter. For the grace of Christ and the inspiration of His Spirit may reach infinitely... | |
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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... 
