 | George Croft - 1797 - 340 pages
...make men meet to receive grace, or fcs '' {he fchool authors fay, deferye grace of " con*' congruity, yea, rather for that they are " not done, as God hath willed and cotn" manded them to be done, we doubt not *' but they have the nature of fin," this, as Dr. TOTTIE... | |
 | George Burder - 1835 - 654 pages
...wicked is an abomination to Him." And the thirteenth Article of the Church of England truly says, that " Works done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration of his Spirit, are not pleasant to God ; and we doubt not but they have the nature of sin." 10. Unwilling to humble himself, and cry for mercy,... | |
 | Micaiah Towgood - Dissenters, Religious - 1804 - 376 pages
...every person born into this '•' world, it deserveth God's WRATH and DAMNA" TFON." Art. XIII. " That 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... | |
 | 1845 - 786 pages
...spring out necessarily of a true and lively faith.' ART. XIII. Of Worts before Justification. — ' Works done before the grace of Christ and the inspiration of his Spirit, are not pleasant to God : we doubt not but they have the nature of sin.' ART. XXII. ' The Komish doctrine concerning Purgatory,... | |
 | Holy Spirit - 1805 - 298 pages
...though they were, the absolute grounds of Justification itself before God, or of Salvation. That all works, done before the grace of Christ and the inspiration of his Spirit, and not being the offspring of faith in Christ, are so far from making men meet, or from preparing... | |
 | Asa McFarland - Calvinism - 1806 - 288 pages
...proof, that the English reformers and Calvin were agreed in doctrine. In this article it is said, " Works, done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration...forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ, neither do they make men meet to receive grace" • t The first account which we have of a departure... | |
 | Charles Edward De Coetlogon - Christianity - 1807 - 586 pages
...have no power to do good Works, pleafant and acceptable to God without the Grace of Christ; and that Works, done before the Grace of Christ, and the inspiration of his Spirit, are not pleasing to God." The true reason of which, 1 apprehend, must be, because they do not proceed from... | |
 | Charles Edward De Coetlogon - Christianity - 1807 - 588 pages
...have no power to do good Works, pleafant and acceptable to God without the Grace of Christ; and that Works, done before the Grace of Christ, and the inspiration of his Spirit, are not pleasing to God," The true reason of which, I apprehend, must be, because they do not proceed from... | |
 | George Bourne - Funeral sermons - 1807 - 366 pages
...And, as such, an abomination to him ? The works of him who has heard the gospel, and does not believe, are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done. And yet we know not how to say, that they are an abomination to the Lord in him who feareth God, and... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1808 - 634 pages
...XIIL Of Worts before Juttiji cation. Works done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration ofliis Spirit, are not pleasant to God, forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ, neither do they make men meet to receive grace, or (as the School- Authors say) deserve grace of congruity... | |
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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... 
