 | Robert Newton Flew - 2002 - 160 pages
..."Apart from me ye can do nothing", Temple quotes Article Xin from the Book of Common Prayer: "Works done before the grace of Christ and the Inspiration...congruity: yea rather, for that they are not done as God willed and commanded them to be done, we doubt not but they have the nature of sin." Then he goes on:... | |
 | Gerald Lewis Bray - England - 2004 - 682 pages
...preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us when we have that good will. 26. Works done before the grace of Christ and the inspiration of his Spirit are not pleasing to God forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ, neither do they make men meet... | |
 | Barry L. Craig - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 254 pages
...to do any good work, Medley was simply affirming the Anglican formularies. See Article XIII "Works done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration...do they make men meet to receive grace, or (as the School-authors say) deserve grace of congruity: yea rather, for that they are not done as God hath... | |
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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... 
