 | Maria Stevens - 1826 - 526 pages
...abiding in Christ we shall bring forth much fruit. ARTICLE XIII. Of 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... | |
 | John William Fletcher - 1826 - 854 pages
...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... | |
 | William Scott, Francis Garden, James Bowling Mozley - Christianity - 1826 - 806 pages
...may admit of, we cannot wholly acquit the writer of having forgotten where it is written : " 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 us meet... | |
 | John Pridham - 1826 - 438 pages
...faith, is sin gg ." With these sentiments, the language of the Thirteenth Article fully concurs: " 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... | |
 | Thomas Harwood - Devotional literature - 1826 - 262 pages
...various passages in Scripture; " a corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit." Such works, as are " done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration of his Spirit," cannot be pleasing to God, ° because they proceed not from " Faith in Jesus Christ." They do not "... | |
 | John Bird Sumner - Bible - 1826 - 360 pages
...or to be rewarded by him."* This * This is expressly declared in our 13th Article respecting " Works done before the Grace of Christ, and the Inspiration of his Spirit." The Article is known to have been levelled against a Pelagian tenet held by the Roman Catholics : and... | |
 | sir George Pretyman Tomline (bart, bp. of Winchester.) - 1826 - 582 pages
...also to all persons who have not lived under the Gospel dispensation. But though their works, as being DONE BEFORE THE GRACE OF CHRIST, AND THE INSPIRATION OF HIS SPIRIT, COuld not have been perfectly pleasing to God, and could not have risen to the standard of merit, yet... | |
 | William Reed Huntington - Theology - 1902 - 142 pages
...endure the severity of God's judgment, yet are they pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ; but works done before the grace of Christ and the inspiration of His Spirit are not pleasant to God." This of course throws the mind of the listener into a critical and argumentative... | |
 | Ernst Friedrich Karl Müller - Reformed Church - 1903 - 1064 pages
...the grace of God preventing 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...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 meete... | |
 | Hastings Rashdall - Christian life - 1904 - 402 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
