 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 480 pagina’s
...Divine Spirit, and as it marks Divine approba tion of that character in its general features ; as no works done before the grace of Christ and the inspiration of his Spirit are good works, and since all such works have in them the nature of sin, and are not pleasant and acceptable... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 498 pagina’s
...degree. Free will, until sanetitled by regeneration, is a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint. And works, " done before the grace of Christ and the inspiration of his Spirit, are," as our church justly pronounces them to be, " sinful and displeasing to God (&)." Nay, even the best... | |
 | John William Fletcher - 1826 - 854 pagina’s
...subject before he restores him to his favour. Thus our Church declares in her thirteenth Article, " That 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 : Yea, rather for that they are not done as God... | |
 | John Pridham - 1826 - 438 pagina’s
...faith, is sin gg ." With these sentiments, the language of the Thirteenth Article fully concurs: " 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, yea rather, for that they are not done as... | |
 | 1826 - 870 pagina’s
...doctrine, and very full of comfort, as more largely is expressed in the homily of Justification* " " 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, neither do they make men meet to receive grace,... | |
 | Maria Stevens - 1826 - 526 pagina’s
...thus abiding in Christ we shall bring forth much fruit. ARTICLE XIII. Of Works before Justification. 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, neither do they make men meet to receive grace,... | |
 | William Scott, Francis Garden, James Bowling Mozley - 1826 - 806 pagina’s
...explanation they may admit of, we cannot wholly acquit the writer of having forgotten where it is written : " 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 ; neither do they make us meet to receive grace,... | |
 | Hastings Rashdall - 1904 - 402 pagina’s
...their medieval and Protestant successors. There is an article of the Church of England which declares that " 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, neither do they make men meet to receive grace,... | |
 | John Henry Bridges - 1907 - 340 pagina’s
...recorded in the most authoritative way in the thirteenth article of the Church of England — namely, that works done before the grace of Christ and the inspiration of His Spirit are not pleasant to God . . . "yea rather, for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done, we... | |
 | Horace Mellard Du Bose - 1907 - 270 pagina’s
...discerned by f" the " ch. by W. to " its "] fruit. (XIII.) Of Works before Justification. [Om. by W, 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, neither do they make men meet to receive grace,... | |
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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... 
