 That 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 deservings : wherefore, that we are justified by faith only is a most wholesome doctrine, and very full of comfort.  The history of the church of Christ - Page 126by Joseph Milner - 1827Full view - About this book
 | James Ussher - 1660 - 628 pages
...him, did reach to us : so that the meaning is this, as it is in the articles of the Church of England, that " 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 and deservings ;" that is, for... | |
 | William Hawkins - 1758 - 460 pages
...rectify the Miftakes of the Well-meaning, as well as expofe the Prcfumptions of others concerning it. Now that " we are accounted righteous before God, only " for the Merit of our Lord and Saviour Jefas " Cbriji by Faith, and not for our own Works or " Defervings, and confequently... | |
 | James Neale - 1760 - 52 pages
...the foot of the throne of mercy, confeffing thereby that great fcripture truth taught in our Church, that we are accounted righteous before GOD, only for the merit of our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST by faith and not by our own works or defervings ; and I truft in... | |
 | George Whitefield - Presbyterian Church - 1771 - 494 pages
...cannot turn and pre" pare himfelf by his own natural ftrength and good " to faith and calKng upon GoD. That 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 defervings. That albeit... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1801 - 374 pages
...of our Church, in which it is di- i. redlly afferted, that " we are juftified by " faith only," and that " we are accounted " righteous before God only for the merit "of our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift by " The Papiftes, as it is moft manifeft, make him but halfe a "... | |
 | 1804 - 508 pages
...to frame his life according to that law, and the light of nature§." And the Romanist she teaches, that " we are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith ; and neither for our own works works or deservings||,"... | |
 | 1815 - 436 pages
...Father to us, and to be a sacrifice not only for original guilt, but also for actual sins of men ;' that ' 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 deservings ;' but ' albeit... | |
 | John Overton - Evangelicalism - 1802 - 436 pages
...Juffification. (e) Ser. ip 8. grace of God by Chrift preventing us, we have no power to do good works," and that " we are accounted righteous before God ONLY for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift by faith." But, to proceed to the doctrine of the moft orthodox of... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1802 - 552 pages
...than thofe of good works, will find themfelves miferabfy and fatally deluded:" the chuich decides, that " we are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and SavioXir Jefus thrift by faith, -and not for our own works or de.'ervings." (Art. П.}—... | |
 | Rowland Hill - Christian life - 1806 - 336 pages
...services as ours ? I can't help thinking with our old folk in the article of the justification of man, that " 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 deservings ; wherefore, that... | |
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