 | Church of England - 1814 - 288 pages
...have that good will. XI. Of the Justification of J fan. "IJ/T/are accounted righteous before Go J, only for the merit * * of our Lord and Saviour Jesus...de-servings : -wherefore, that we are justified by failli only is a most wholesome doctrine, and - very full of comfort ; as more largely lu expressed... | |
 | 1814 - 774 pages
...p. 21, ' You cannot be accepted or regarded of God for any of your works :' and the Articles say, ' We are accounted righteous before God only for the...Saviour Jesus Christ, by faith, and not for our own vsorks or descrcings.'1 Art. II. The Dialogue says, ' Faith alone is necessary to our justification,'... | |
 | S. M. Waddams - 1992 - 400 pages
...on which Williams was condemned concerned the doctrine of justification by faith. Article XI states: We are accounted righteous before God only for the...by faith, and not for our own works or deservings. Williams had written: Why may not justification by faith have meant the peace of mind, or sense of... | |
 | Donald K. McKim, David F. Wright - 1992 - 452 pages
...classical creeds. Articles 9-14 deal with original sin,* free will,* and justification,* proclaiming that "we are accounted righteous before God, only for the...by Faith,* and not for our own works or deservings" and that "Good Works, which are the fruits of Faith, and follow after Justification, . . . do spring... | |
 | Paul Langford - 1989 - 856 pages
...evangelical John Berridge pointed out, that 'we are accounted righteous before God, only for the merits of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith, and not for our own works and deservings, and that we are justified by faith only'.2 Yet most clergy preached, in varying proportions,... | |
 | Peter White - 2002 - 356 pages
...Haugaard, Elizabeth and the English Reformation, 240-1; text in Hardwick, Articles of Religion, 337-9. 27 'Albeit that good works which are the fruits of faith, and follow after justification, can not put away our sins, and endure the severity of God's judgement; yet are they pleasing and acceptable... | |
 | Avery Dulles - 1996 - 324 pages
...church that sought to preserve both the Catholic and the Protestant traditions. Article 1 1 stated: "We are accounted righteous before God only for the...most wholesome Doctrine. and very full of comfort. as more largely is expressed in the Homily of Justification."27 The Twelve Homilies of 1547. issued... | |
 | Nigel Scotland - 1995 - 222 pages
...reception of the sacrament of baptism'. Sumner wrote: 'The Church can only speak as the scripture speaks... "we are accounted righteous before God, only for the...merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith".' In a second exchange of letters Maskell asked Sumner could he teach these doctrines? Sumner replied... | |
 | Paul F. M. Zahl - 1998 - 128 pages
...have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will. XI. Of the Justification of Man. We are accounted righteous before God, only for the...most wholesome Doctrine, and very full of comfort, as more largely is expressed in the Homily of Justification. XII. Of Good Works. Albeit that Good Works,... | |
 | Robert M. Ryan - 2004 - 312 pages
...England's Eleventh Article of Faith: "We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merits of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, by faith, and not for our own works or deservings." They are also, by the way, restating the teaching of the Tenth Article: The condition of man after... | |
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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... 
