 THOSE whom God effectually calleth he also freely justifieth ; not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous : not for any thing wrought in them, or done by them, but for...  Theologiæ dogmaticæ tractus ... - Page 315by Francis Patrick Kenrick - 1840Full view - About this book
 | Louis Berkhof - 2007 - 180 pages
...persons as righteous, not for anything wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone; nor by imputing faith itself, the act of believing, or...faith they have not of themselves, it is the gift of Cod. 2. Faith, thus receiving and resting on Christ, and His righteousness, is the alone instrument... | |
 | Gerald Lewis Bray - 2004 - 682 pages
...persons as righteous, not for anything wrought in them or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone, nor by imputing faith itself, the act of believing, or...imputing the obedience and satisfaction of Christ unto them,236 they receiving and resting on Him and His righteousness by faith, which faith they have not... | |
 | W. Gary Crampton - 2004 - 270 pages
...persons as righteous: not for anything wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone...by imputing the obedience and satisfaction of Christ...and resting on Him and His righteousness by faith. Further, says the Confession (11:4), even though God eternally decreed to justify the elect, their... | |
 | Tyron Inbody - 2005 - 434 pages
...accounting and accepting their persons as righteous; not for anything wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone; not by imputing faith...faith they have not of themselves, it is the gift of God.44 This Protestant emphasis on justif1cation as imputed righteousness is intended to be a rejection... | |
 | Jeffrey K. Jue - 2006 - 316 pages
...accounting and accepting their persons as righteous: not for any thing wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone: not by imputing faith...they have not of themselves; it is the gift of God." WCF Ch. XI:I; The Westminster Standards can be found in the Westminster Confession of Faith (London,... | |
 | John Piper - 2006 - 82 pages
...persons as righteous: not for anything wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone: nor by imputing faith itself, the act of believing, or...they have not of themselves; it is the gift of God" (11.1); and "Faith, thus receiving and resting on Christ and His righteousness, is the alone instrument... | |
 | Francis Watson - 2007 - 417 pages
...39. According to the Reformed, "[tjhose whom God effectually calleth he also freely justifieth; . . . [not] by imputing faith itself, the act of believing,...they have not of themselves, it is the gift of God" ( Westminster Confession [1647] , 11.1; P. Schaff, Creeds of Christendom, 3:626). 238 enabled by the... | |
 | Robert Tudur Jones, Kenneth Dix, Alan Ruston - 2006 - 448 pages
...as righteous; not, for any thing wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone; nor, by imputing faith itself, the act of believing, or...they have, not of themselves, it is the gift of God. II. Faith, thus receiving and resting on Christ, and his righteousness, is the alone instrument of... | |
 | Carl R. Trueman - 2007 - 148 pages
...as righteous, nor for any thing wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone; nor by imputing Faith itself, the act of believing, or...obedience to them, as their righteousness, but by imputing Christs active obedience unto the whole Law, and passive obedience in his death for their whole and... | |
 | 1835 - 424 pages
...(chap. xi. sec. i.) it is said, — ' Those whom God effectually calleth, he also freely justifieth, — by imputing the obedience and satisfaction of Christ...they have not of themselves, it is the gift of God.' Again ; in the iii. sec. of this chapter we are taught that ' Christ, by his obedience and death, did... | |
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