| Robert Wharton Landis - 1844 - 146 pages
...condemnation. The doctrine is excellently defined to be, " An act of God's free grace, by which he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous...Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone." It is not simply remission of sin. Although in the economy of redemption it is true that pardon necessarily... | |
| Alexander Campbell - Baptism - 1844 - 922 pages
...what says our confession on this subject? "Justification is an act of God's free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous...Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone." — Shorter Catechism. The confession does not say, we are justified by faith alone, as the gentleman... | |
| Theology - 1867 - 848 pages
...comprehensive words of the Westminster divines, ' Justification is an act of God's free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous...Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone'" (p. 411). The latter definition is the main one which Dr. Buchanan defends, and it may mean the same,... | |
| James Wood - 1845 - 342 pages
...unintelligible. 3. It destroys the very nature of justification, which is "an act of God's free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous...sight only for the righteousness of Christ, imputed unto us, and received by faith alone." But according to this theory, there is no such thing as justification:... | |
| John Brown - Presbyterian Church - 1846 - 368 pages
...forever in and with him, Col. iii. 3, 4. A. Justification is an act of God's free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous...Christ, imputed to us, and received by faith alone. Q. 33. What is justification'} Q. What benefit doth first in order flow from our union to Christ?—A.... | |
| 1846 - 706 pages
...continual intercession for us. "We believe that justification is an act of God's free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous...Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone." These doctrines we regard &a fundamental articles of the Christian religion, and the denial of them... | |
| German correspondent of "The Continental echo.", J. W. Carr - German Catholicism - 1846 - 504 pages
...' What is Justification ?' The answer is, ' Justification is an act of God's free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous...Christ, imputed to us, and received by faith alone.' We have not had an opportunity of certainly learning from your publications which have reached this... | |
| John Williamson Nevin - 1846 - 296 pages
...believers, is that which is formed in our justification ; that " act of God's free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous...Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone." And so our whole subsequent Christian life, as it grows forth from this objective righteousness, may... | |
| James Richards, Samuel H. Gridley - Philosophy - 1846 - 520 pages
...answer given in the Shorter Catechism is, " Justification is an act of God's free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous...Christ imputed to us and received by faith alone." In the Confession of Faith, Chapter XL, this doctrine is expressed more fully thus : " Those whom God... | |
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