...with the Lutherans upon this point, our church pronounces, that we are accounted righteous before God, for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, by faith, and not lor our own works and deserving : yet it is worthy of constant recollection, that the very definition...

...Dr. Pearson refers his idea of meritorious cause. The words of the Article are, " We are justified only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Faith, without our own works or deservings." For " Faith" substitute " the merits of Christ," and then the...

...his sins and tres* passes, in such things as he hath offended. And ' vious condition is required.' ' Wherefore, that we are justified ' by faith only is a most wholesome doctrine, and very full of ' comfort, as more largely is expressed in the homily of justifi' cation.' 1 ' God...

...the fubje<ft of much difpute and mifapprehenfion : The juftification of man. " We are accouiirted " righteous before God, only for the merit of " our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrifir by faith, " and not for our own works or defervings." This is fo undeniable, that we...

...rejoicing" in that day which shall " declare every man's work of what sort it is," CHURCH OF ENGLAND. We are accounted righteous before God, only for the...Jesus Christ by faith ; and not for our own works or dcservings. Wherefore, that we are justified by Faith only is a most wholesome doctrine and very full...

...good will, and working with us when we have that good will." ) ART. XI. Of the Justification of Man. " We are accounted righteous before God, only for the...of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith, and toot for our own works or deservihgs. Wherefore that we are justified by faith only, is a most wholesome...

...attorney-general, who prosecutes, says, as representutiveof the church , in her eleventh artiqje : " We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Ch rist, by faith, and not forou r own •works or deservings ;" and in the eighteenth, " they also...

...justified by faith without _J| works, is not the same thing as to be justified by works; and that to be ' accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ', is very different from being accounted righteous through our deserving«. If, then, the merit of Christ...

...Church briefly comprifes the fubrtance of St. Paul's doctrine on this head, it is aflerted, that " we " are accounted righteous before God, only" FOR the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jefus " Chrift by faith, and not FOR our own works " and defervings z ;" and as in the moft celebrated...

...is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself by his own natural strength and good works, —that we are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord Jesus Christ by faith and the like ? These, my lord, are some of the favourite tenets of the itinerant...