Humilis confessio. The Saints united confession, in disparagement of their own righteousness. A sermon [on Isai. lxiv. 9, compared with Phil. iii. 8 and 9].1750 |
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Page 32 - Justification is not the office of man, but of God; for man cannot make himself righteous by his own works, neither in part, nor in the whole...
Page 28 - Now, concerning THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF SANCTIFICATION, we deny it not to be INHERENT. We grant, that, unless we work, we have it not: only we distinguish it, as a thing different in nature from THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JUSTIFICATION. We are righteous, the one way, by the faith of Abraham : the other way, except we do the works of Abraham, we are not righteous. Of the one, St. Paul: To him, that worketh not but believeth, faith is counted for righteousness. Of the other, St. John : He is righteous, which...
Page 28 - 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 32 - 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 4 - I have fuffered the lofs of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Chrift, and be found in him, not having mine own righteoufnefs, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Chrift, the righteousnefs which is of God by faith...
Page 27 - Agent h, is not so perfect, as that it can bear us out before the tribunal of God. It must be only under the garment of our Elder Brother, that we dare come in for a blessing : his righteousness made ours by faith, is that, whereby we are justified in the sight of God : this doctrine is that, which is blasted with a Tridentine curse.
Page 64 - I will that thou affirm conftantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works : thefe things are good and profitable unto men.
Page 28 - Ib put on covereth the ihame of our defiled natures, hideth the imperfection of our works, preferveth us blamelefs in the fight of God, before whom otherwife •the weaknefs of our Faith were caufe fufficient to make us culpable, yea, to (hut us from the kingdom of heaven, where nothing that is not abfolutecan enter.
Page 32 - God ; for, man cannot make himself right" ecus by his own works, neither in part, nor in the " whole ; for, that were the greatest arrogancy and " presumption of man, that Antichrist could set up " against God, to affirm that man might, by his own " works, take away and purge his own sins, and so
Page 34 - To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses; though we have rebelled against Him ; neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his ways which He set before us.