 | Philip Schaff - Church history - 1877 - 948 pages
...Of the Justification of Man. We are pardoned and accounted righteous before God, only for merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, by faith ; and not for our own works or deservings. He who knew no sin was made sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. He bare... | |
 | James Ussher - 1660 - 628 pages
...articles of the Church of England, that " 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 and deservings ;" that is, for the merits of Jesus Christ, God is well pleased with the obedience of... | |
 | Church of England articles - 1855 - 76 pages
...will. XI. Oftlie Justification of Man. 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 : Wherefore, that we are justified by Faith only is a most wholesome Doctrine, and very full of comfort,... | |
 | James Hervey - Justification - 1767 - 464 pages
...put the Matter beyond, ail;Doubt. In her eleventh Article (he fays ; *' We are accounted righteous before GOD only " for the Merits of our LORD and SAVIOUR « JESUS CHRIST."— TheDoftrine relating; to Pardon of Sin, had been ftatfid in a preceding VOL. II. Z Article, Article.... | |
 | George Whitefield - Presbyterian Church - 1771 - 494 pages
...church? For what fays the 1 \ ih article ? " 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 defervings. Wherefore that we are juftificd by faith only is a moft wholfome do&rine, and very full... | |
 | George Whitefield - Presbyterian Church - 1772 - 490 pages
...he that runs may read. Search the Eleventh Artide of our Church : " We are ac<•' counted righteous before GOD, only for the merits of our *' Lord and...CHRIST by faith, and not for our •' own works or defcrvings." This dodtrine of our free juftification by faith in CHRIST JESUS, howevir cenlurcd and... | |
 | Joseph Milner - 1812 - 538 pages
...and very lull of comfort," namely, the doctrine of justification " before God, only tor the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, by faith, and not for our own works or deservings *," is preached by a bishop of the eleventh century. So strong was the provision made by the God of... | |
 | John Wesley, George Story - Christianity - 1818 - 934 pages
...touching the article of our justification, 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. Who we have done all, we are still but unprofitable servants. Instead of being inflated with I know... | |
 | 1828
...by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in God's sight ; that we are accounted righteous before God, only for the merits of our Lord and Saviour...by faith, and not for our own works or deservings, and come cast thyself at the foot of the cross, renounce every other dependence, gladly embrace the... | |
 | 1815 - 436 pages
...the same time urges the necessity of maintaining with our church, 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," under the full conviction that the interests of morality, so far from being endangered,... | |
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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. 
