 | Paul Langford - History - 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 - Religion - 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...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.... | |
 | 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 - Religion - 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...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,... | |
 | Robert M. Ryan - Literary Criticism - 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... | |
 | John E. Booty, Stephen Sykes, Jonathan Knight - Religion - 1998 - 542 pages
...Homily of Justification.' 4 The essential concern in this passage is linked to the word merit: it is only 'for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Faith' that mankind is justified before God, 'not for our own works or deservings'. In the latter Middle Ages... | |
 | Susanne Woods - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 236 pages
...also articles 11-14, on justification and works, eg, from article u, "Of the Justification of Man": "We are accounted righteous before God, only for the...by Faith, and not for our own works or deservings." These articles became the official doctrine of the English church in 1571. For a summary history, see... | |
 | Richard Danson Brown - Poetry - 1999 - 308 pages
...mortal endeavour, he should embrace the distant 'hope of heaven', as the Protestant is ultimately saved 'only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Faith'. Despite the apparent authority of this instruction, the first 'Pageants' do not close The Ruines of... | |
 | Brian Raynor - Christian martyrs - 2000 - 440 pages
...and XII from the Church of England Prayer Book affirm the doctrine of justification by faith alone: 'We are accounted righteous before God, only for the...by Faith, and not for our own works or deservings'; and '... Good Works, which are the fruits of Faith, and follow after Justification, cannot put away... | |
 | John R. Rice - Evangelistic work - 2000 - 228 pages
...reminds his modernistic friends that evangelists and all Bible believers hold in spirit the creed, "We are accounted righteous before God only for the...by faith and not for our own works or deservings." This modernist, this Unitarian minister, this Master of the Masonic Lodge, denies the doctrine of salvation... | |
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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. 
