 | Charles Butler - Church history - 1816 - 228 pages
...ii. 24), " Do you see that man is justified by works, and not by faith only :" and, a little after, " For as the body, without the spirit, is dead ; so faith, without works, is dead." The divine Paul adds the same in another place, (1 Timothy, i. 19.), " Having faith and a good conscience,... | |
 | George Nicholson - 1817 - 212 pages
...enter into life, keep the commandments." These two quotations seem contradictory; but they are not so. For "as the body, without the spirit is dead; so faith without works is dead also." Faith and love are, therefore, as inseparable, as the light and heat of the sun. But how say you, am... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 616 pages
...or effects produced ; as the apostle in that context observes, in the last verse of the chapter: " For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also." ยง 52. There is, in the nature and essence of saving faith, a receiving of the object of faith, not... | |
 | Future punishment - 1817 - 334 pages
...(mercy) mingles not therewith; judgment or condemnation being on the whole the wisest and the best. 26. " For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.1' it rife <H The body without the spirit is dead; the spirit without the body is devoid of consciousness.... | |
 | Henry Hunter - Bible - 1818 - 376 pages
...but there can be no religion without morality. " Faith, if it hath not works is dead, being alone:" " for as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also." If in his mere civil and moral capacity the nobleman of Capernaum administered his affairs so wisely... | |
 | Edward John Burrow - 1822 - 594 pages
...not works, is dead, being alone. But will timit know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead ! For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. Gal. v. 6. For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor mncircumcision ; but faith... | |
 | Arminianism - 1819 - 996 pages
...it profit, my brethren, though a man .say he hath faith, and have not works ? Can faith save him ? For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also," James ii. 14, 26. " For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision,... | |
 | John Owen - 1823 - 338 pages
...which he had evinced by his whole disputation, and which at first he designed to confirm, verse '26. " For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. A. breatbless carcase and an unworking t'aith are alike, as unto all the ends of natural or .spiritual... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Theology - 1823 - 570 pages
...clearly proves to be the main thing, on which he meant to insist, in these concise and emphatical words : For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also ; or as I should render it, a faith without works, that is, such a faith, as is without works. The... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - 1824 - 542 pages
...doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and hath not works ? Can faith save him ? It cannot ; for as the body without the spirit is...delusions, and by sudden flashes of joy and comfort ; holy works being a more sensible and constant pledge of the precious spirit, begetting and maintaining in... | |
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Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. 
