Justification by Faith: A Charge Delivered Before the Clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Ohio, and at the Twenty-second Annual Convention of the Diocese, in St. Paul's Church, Steubenville, September 13, 1839 ...

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I. N. Whiting, 1840 - Faith - 156 pages
 

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Page 120 - Be it known unto you. therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins, and by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which they could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Page 13 - 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...
Page 106 - And yet that faith doth not. shut out repentance, hope, love, dread, and the fear of God, to be joined with faith in every man that is justified ; but it shutteth them out from the office of justifying.
Page 60 - And if by grace, then it is no more of works : otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace : otherwise work is no more work.
Page 42 - 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.
Page 80 - Such we are in the sight of God the Father, as is the very Son of God himself. Let it be counted folly, or frenzy, or fury, whatsoever, it is our comfort and our wisdom ; we care for no knowledge in the world but this, that man hath sinned and God hath suffered ; that God hath made himself the son of man, and that men are made the righteousness of God.
Page 28 - Whether they speak of the first or second justification, they make the essence of it a divine quality inherent ; they make it righteousness which is in us. If it be in us, then it is ours, as our souls are ours, though we have them from God, and can hold them no longer than pleaseth him ; for if he withdraw the breath of our nostrils, we fall to dust; but the righteousness wherein we must be formed, if we will be justified, is not our own ; therefore we cannot be justified by any inherent quality.
Page 65 - ... but the true understanding and meaning thereof is, that although we hear God's Word, and believe it; although we have faith, hope, charity, repentance, dread, and fear of God within us, and do never so many good works thereunto; yet we must renounce the merit of all our said virtues...
Page 97 - Our life is hid with Christ in God, and when Christ, who is our life, shall appear ; then shall we also appear with him in glory.
Page 48 - He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the Lord.

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