 | Church of England - 1825 - 432 pages
...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 to receive grace,... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1825 - 512 pages
...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 to receive Grace,... | |
 | Outlines - 1825 - 288 pages
...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 meet to receive this... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 498 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 480 pages
...Divine Spirit, and as it marks Divine approba tion of that character in its general features ; as no works done before the grace of Christ and the inspiration of his Spirit are good works, and since all such works have in them the nature of sin, and are not pleasant and acceptable... | |
 | John William Fletcher - 1826 - 854 pages
...subject before he restores him to his favour. Thus our Church declares in her thirteenth Article, " That 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 : Yea, rather for that they are not done as God... | |
 | Ernst Friedrich Karl Müller - 1903 - 1060 pages
...us, that we may have a good will, and 15 working with us when wee have that good will. 26. "Workes done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration of his spirit, are not pleasing unto God, for as much as they spring not of faith in lesus Christ, neither do they make men... | |
 | Hastings Rashdall - 1904 - 402 pages
...medieval and Protestant successors. There is an article of the Church of England which declares that " 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 to receive grace,... | |
 | Horace Mellard Du Bose - 1907 - 270 pages
...discerned by f" the " ch. by W. to " its "] fruit. (XIII.) Of Works before Justification. [Om. by W, 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 to receive grace,... | |
 | John England - 1908 - 576 pages
...my proof shall have been examined. The thirteenth article of the Protestant Episcopal Church is — "Works done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration of his spirit, are not pleasant to God, for as much as they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ, neither do they make men meet to receive grace,... | |
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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... 
