...(e) Ser. ip 8. grace of God by Chrift preventing us, we have no power to do good works," and that " we are accounted righteous before God ONLY for the...merit of our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift by faith." But, to proceed to the doctrine of the moft orthodox of thefe Divines, at their moft orthodox moments...

...good will, and working with us when we have that good will, XI. Of the Jaßif cation of Man. ~V\7"E are accounted righteous before God, only for the * ' merit of our Lord and .Saviour Jefus Chrilt by faith, and not for our own works or defervings : wherefore, that we are juftified by faith...

...to us, and to be a sacrifice not only for original guilt, but also for actual sins of men ;' that ' 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 ;' but ' albeit that good works which...

...thofe of good works, will find themfelves miferabfy and fatally deluded:" the chuich decides, that " we are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and SavioXir Jefus thrift by faith, -and not for our own works or de.'ervings." (Art. П.}— Let us fee...

...performances. This is ve ry well exp'refled in the Article: " We are accounted righteous before God, only far the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift, by faith, and not for our own works or defervings." The precife meaning of this doctrine is farther, and moil luiumoufly, uniolded...

...language of the Apostle, " we are made the righteousness of God in him;" or that -of our articles/ " we are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, by failli, and not for our own works or deservings;" we do not say, tluit " we have perfectly...

...be inclined to doubt this, let him confider that the eleventh article of oar own Church fays, that we are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Saviour, by faith, and not for our own works and defervings; and yet no found JDivine conceives that,...

...two different mod:S of expreffion, which are plainly equivalent to one another. . The firft is : " We are accounted righteous before God, only for the...and Saviour Jefus Chrift by faith, and not for our own works or i'efervings." That this expreffion relates to the meritorious caufe of man's j unification...

...herself in the following terms upon salvation by faith, and the good works produced by that faith. " 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 and deserving*. Wherefore, that " we ara justified...

...frame his life according to that law and the light of nature ; while they teach the Romanift, that we are accounted righteous before God, ; only for...of our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift, by faith, and neither fof our own works or decryings, nor for the fupererogatory vyorks of faints.'! (Pp. 44, 45.)...