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... Repentance unto life ........ 16. Of Good Works ....... 17. Of the Perseverance of the Saints ... .................. . 18. Of Assurance of Grace and Salvation 19. Of the Law of God .......... 74 77 78 ...... 80 82 82 83 84 86 88 ......
... Repentance unto life ........ 16. Of Good Works ....... 17. Of the Perseverance of the Saints ... .................. . 18. Of Assurance of Grace and Salvation 19. Of the Law of God .......... 74 77 78 ...... 80 82 82 83 84 86 88 ......
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... repentance , hope , charity , and the fear of God ( for such a faith is dead , and cannot jus- tify ) ; neither do we mean , that this our act to believe in Christ , or this our faith in Christ , which is within us , doth of itself ...
... repentance , hope , charity , and the fear of God ( for such a faith is dead , and cannot jus- tify ) ; neither do we mean , that this our act to believe in Christ , or this our faith in Christ , which is within us , doth of itself ...
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... repentance and good works . 40. Repentance is a gift of God , whereby a godly sorrow is wrought in the heart of the faithful for offend- ing God , their merciful Father , by their former trans- gressions , together with a constant ...
... repentance and good works . 40. Repentance is a gift of God , whereby a godly sorrow is wrought in the heart of the faithful for offend- ing God , their merciful Father , by their former trans- gressions , together with a constant ...
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... repentance is not to be denied . 45. Voluntary works , besides over and above God's commandments , which they call works of supereroga- tion , cannot be taught without arrogancy and impiety ; for by them men do declare , that they do ...
... repentance is not to be denied . 45. Voluntary works , besides over and above God's commandments , which they call works of supereroga- tion , cannot be taught without arrogancy and impiety ; for by them men do declare , that they do ...
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... repentance he be openly reconciled and received into the church , by the judgment of such as have au- thority in that behalf . 74. God hath given power to his ministers not sim- ply to forgive sins ( which prerogative he hath reserved ...
... repentance he be openly reconciled and received into the church , by the judgment of such as have au- thority in that behalf . 74. God hath given power to his ministers not sim- ply to forgive sins ( which prerogative he hath reserved ...
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Page 5 - As the godly consideration of predestination and our Election in Christ is full of sweet, pleasant and unspeakable comfort to godly persons, and such as feel in themselves the working of the Spirit of Christ mortifying the works of the flesh and their earthly members and drawing up' their mind to high and heavenly things...
Page 22 - The Old Testament is not contrary to the New ; for both in the Old and New Testament everlasting life is offered to mankind by CHRIST, who is the only mediator between GOD and man, being both GOD and man. Wherefore they are not to be heard, which feign, that the old fathers did look only for transitory promises.
Page 34 - THE Old Testament is not contrary to the New: for both in the Old and New Testament everlasting life is offered to Mankind by Christ, who is the only Mediator between God and Man, being both God and Man. Wherefore they are not to be heard, which feign that the old Fathers did look only for transitory promises.
Page 37 - 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 47 - Those five commonly called Sacraments, that is to say, Confirmation, Penance, Orders, Matrimony, and extreme Unction, are not to be counted for Sacraments of the Gospel, being such as have grown partly of the corrupt following of the Apostles, partly are states of life allowed in the Scriptures; but yet have not like nature of Sacraments with Baptism, and the Lord's Supper, for that they have not any visible sign or ceremony ordained of God.
Page 8 - THE Son, which is the Word of the Father, begotten from everlasting of the Father, the very and eternal God, of one substance with the Father, took man's nature in the womb of the Blessed Virgin, of her substance : so that two whole and perfect natures — that is to say, the Godhead and Manhood — were joined together in one Person, never to be divided ; whereof is one Christ, very God and very Man...
Page 42 - PREDESTINATION to life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby (before the foundations of the world were laid) he hath constantly decreed by his counsel, secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation, as vessels made to honour.
Page 39 - 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, or (as the...
Page 47 - The Sacraments were not ordained of Christ to be gazed. upon, or to be carried about, but that we should duly use them. And in such only as worthily receive the same, they have a wholesome effect or operation ; but they that receive them unworthily, purchase to themselves damnation, as St. Paul saith.
Page 45 - GENERAL Councils may not be gathered together without the commandment and will of Princes. And when they be gathered together, (forasmuch as they be an assembly of men, whereof all be not governed with the Spirit and Word of God,) they may err, and sometimes have erred, even in things pertaining unto God.