 | John Wesley - 1825 - 742 pages
...often from some kind of faith ip God they may spring;) "yea, rather, for that they arc not done >s God hath willed and commanded them to be done, we doubt not" (how strange soever it may appear to some) " but they have the nature of sin." 6. Perhaps those who... | |
 | William Scott, Francis Garden, James Bowling Mozley - 1826 - 806 pages
...or, as the school authors say, deserve grace of congruity: yea rather, for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done, we doubt not but they have the nature of sin." Article 13. (See also Homily on Good Works, Part I.) " 0." labours much to prove that St. Paul was... | |
 | John Pridham - 1826 - 438 pages
...: forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ, yea rather, for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done, we doubt not but they have the nature of sin." This doctrine is ratified by the suffrage of some of the brightest ornaments of our Church, who willingly... | |
 | John Bird Sumner - 1826 - 360 pages
...language and our cautious Reformers : " Since actions which spring not of faith in Christ, are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done, we doubt not but they have the nature of sin." merates the works of the flesh and the fruits of the Spirit ; but his test is insufficient, for the... | |
 | Maria Stevens - 1826 - 526 pages
...(as the school-authors say) deserve grace of congruity : yea, rather for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done, we doubt not but they have the nature of sin. HAVING considered, in the preceding Article, the necessity of good works, and their acceptableness... | |
 | sir George Pretyman Tomline (bart, bp. of Winchester.) - 1826 - 582 pages
...energy, will be rewarded by " the prize of our high calling in Christ." ARTICLE THE FOURTEENTH. Of Works of Supererogation. VOLUNTARY WORKS, BESIDES, OVER AND ABOVE GOD'S COMMANDMENTS, WHICH THET CALL WORKS OF SUPEREROGATION, CANNOT BE TAUGHT WITHOUT ARROGANCE AND IMPIETY ; FOR BY THEM MEN... | |
 | John Wesley - 1827 - 590 pages
...forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ — yea rather, for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done, we doubt not they have the nature of sin." Now, if all works done before justification, have the nature of sin,... | |
 | Horace Mellard Du Bose - 1907 - 270 pages
...(as the school authors say), deserve grace of congruity; yea, rather, for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done, we doubt not but they have the nature of Bin. XI. (XIV.) Of Works of Supererogation. Voluntary works, besides over and above God's commandments,... | |
 | John England - 1908 - 576 pages
...or (as the school authors say) deserve grace of congruity; yea rather, for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done, we doubt not but they have the nature of sin." What would be said of our bigotry and infatuation were we to assert that a benevolent Unitarian, or... | |
 | Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson (bp. of Gloucester) - 1908 - 864 pages
...meet to receive grace, or ... deserve grace of congruity : yea rather, for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done, we doubt not but that they have the nature of sin. What it is intended to deny in each case is the semiPelagian notion,... | |
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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, neither do they make men meet to receive grace, or (as the... 
