 | Menzies Rayner - 1816 - 126 pages
...which can be construed so as to give the least countenance to such an idea? The 11th Article says, " We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our "Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, byjaith, and not for our own works or deservings." The 18th Article says, " They also are to be had... | |
 | Thomas Belsham - 1816 - 764 pages
...Church Articles declare to be a most wholesome doctrine.* And so important hits it • • i ' " |T^ *" We are accounted righteous before God only for the merit of " our Lord and Saviour Jesns Christ, by faith ; and not i'ot onr own "good works or dcservings. Wherefore that we are jnstificd-by... | |
 | Charles Wesley - 1989 - 529 pages
...doctrine of Scripture and our own Church concerning justification which she thus sums up in her Articles: "We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord Jesus Christ through faith, and not for our own works or deservings. Wherefore, that we are justified... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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...justified by Faith only. is a most wholesome Doctrine. and very full of comfort. as more largely is expressed in the Homily of Justification."27 The Twelve... | |
 | 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...justified by Faith only, is a most wholesome Doctrine, and very full of comfort, as more largely is expressed in the Homily of Justification. XII. Of Good... | |
 | 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. 
