...important question was asked, " How shall a man be just before God?" Protestantism returned an answer, " We are accounted righteous before God only for the merits of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith. Wherefore, the doctrine that we are justified by faith only is most...

...a judgment at the last great day, according to works. Yet why should these things be I We all know that "we are accounted righteous before God, only...of our Lord Jesus Christ, by faith and not for our own works or deservings." Justification may be shortly defined as reconciliation with God : as non-imputation...

...the Son of God is a sacrifice, not only for original guilt, but also for actual sins of men;"' and that "we are accounted righteous before God, only for the merits of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ."' And thus, by a gracious dispensation, for us who were by nature polluted...

...Melancthon and the Confession of Augsburg ; for its statement of the doctrine of justification by faith is that, ' We are accounted righteous before God only for the merits of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, by faith, and not for our own works or deservings.' This is language very...

...keep his commandments, according to the law.J For we are accounted righteous before God only through the merits of our Lord Jesus Christ by faith, and not for our own works, which are fleshly, but by the works of God in Christ Jesus. Man of his own nature is inclined...

...but according to his mercy, he saved us." And thus also the llth Article of the'Church of England : "We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merits of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, by faith, and not for our own works and deservings." But to be more particular,...

...in the Christian church, at the time of what has been called the Reformation. It is thus expressed: "We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merits of our Savior Jesus Christ, by faith, and not by works and deservings ; wherefore, that we are justified by...

...sects, is contained in the eleventh of the Thirty-Nine Articles, in the following language : — " We are accounted righteous before God only for the merits of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith, and not for our works or deservings. Therefore that we are justified...

...good works to faith and calling upon God. X. Of Grace. All left out. XI. Of the Justification of Man. We are accounted righteous before God only for the merits of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, by faith, and not for our own works and deserving. Of Good Works. Albeit...

...in the Christian church, at the time of what has been called the Reformation. It is thus expressed: "We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merits of our Savior Jesus Christ, by faith, and not by works and deservings ; wherefore, that we are justified by...