 | Thom Scott - 1824 - 622 страница
...for the sake of what an all ' gracious Saviour has done and suffered for him.' — If these works be done ' before the grace of ' Christ, and the inspiration of his Spirit, they are ' not acceptable to God, but have the nature of sin : ' if afterwards, they come too late,... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1825 - 512 страница
...Faith may be its evidently known, ns a Tree discerned by the Fruit. XII. Works before Justification. 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 ; neither do they make Men meet... | |
 | Outlines - 1825 - 288 страница
...be sufficient to show in what sense the ancestors of our establishment considered this doctrine : " 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 : neither do they make men... | |
 | Church of England - 1825 - 432 страница
...Faith may be as evidently known as a tree discerned by the fruit. XIII. Of Warte before Justification. 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, neither do they make men meet... | |
 | Church of England articles - 1825 - 130 страница
...devils have ; " The devils also believe and tremble." ARTICLE XIII. Of Works before Justification. "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, b neither do they make men... | |
 | James Hervey - 1825 - 476 страница
...of our Church ; who declares, in her 13th Article, «« Works done before the grace of Christ, and inspiration of his Spirit, are not pleasing to God ; forasmuch as they spring not out of faith in Christ." Faith in Jesus Christ purifies the heart. Till this be done, we have neither... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 498 страница
...degree. Free will, until sanetitled by regeneration, is a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint. And works, " done before the grace of Christ and the inspiration of his Spirit, are," as our church justly pronounces them to be, " sinful and displeasing to God (&)." Nay, even the best... | |
 | Henry Wheeler - 1908 - 418 страница
...Faith may be as evidently known as a tree discerned by the fruit. XIII. Of Works before Justification 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, neither _do they mice men meet... | |
 | James Drummond - 1908 - 568 страница
...freedom of choice among courses of action which are equally open to us. Hence is drawn the inference that ' works done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration of his Spirit . . . have the nature of sin ' ;2 and in deplorable opposition to the larger view of Clement of Alexandria,... | |
 | Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson (bp. of Gloucester) - 1908 - 864 страница
...and that thus, although they were done " before justification," they cannot truly be described as " works done before the grace of Christ and the inspiration of His Spirit " ; for, as Augustine says, " Whatever of good works Cornelius performed as well before he believed... | |
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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... 
