 | Girolamo Zanchi, Augustus Toplady - Calvinism - 1811 - 312 pages
...to put the whole matter as far beyond doubt as words can place it, she closes her decision thus ; " Yea, rather, for that they are not done as God hath...be done, we doubt not but they have the nature of sin." Now, if works wrought previous to justification, are sin, it is absolutely impossible that we... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Calvinism - 1811 - 824 pages
...grace of Christ, and the in* spiration of his Spirit, are not pleasant to God : — * forasmuch as they are not done, as God hath willed ' and commanded...be done; we doubt not but ' they have the nature of sin.'1 — TheStoicks allowed, that they owed many things to the gods: but not their wisdom and virtue... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Calvinism - 1811 - 408 pages
...done before the grace of Christ, ' and the inspiration of his Spirit, are not pleasant ' to God ;— for that they are not done, as God hath ' willed and commanded them to be done, we doubt ' not but that they have the nature of sin.'1 " The " ploughing of the wicked is sin."* Every human deed, therefore,... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1811 - 468 pages
...Jesus Christ, (though often from some kind of faith: in God they may spring,) f< yea, rather, because they are not done, as God hath willed and commanded them to be done, we doubt not (how strange soever it may appear to some,) but they have the nature of sin." 6. Perhaps those who... | |
 | Missions - 1811 - 568 pages
...in Jesus Christ ; neither da they make incn meet to receive grace, or deserve grace of congruity ; yea, rather, for that they are not done as God hath...be done, we doubt not but they have the nature of sin.'— At the same time, the con sis'.cnt Calvinist. regards the work of the Holy Spirit, i|i restoring... | |
 | Missions - 1809 - 618 pages
...of this Spirit are not pleasant to God, forasmuch as they spring not oi faith in Jesas Christ ; yea, for that they are not done as God hath willed and...be done, we doubt not but they have the nature of sin.' This grace of Ch* ist, or renewing of the Holy Ghost, consists of those new views, new principles... | |
 | John Allen - 1812 - 172 pages
...the •chool authors aay) deserve grace of congruity: yea, rather tor that they are not done as Gpd hath willed and commanded them to be done, we doubt not but they have the nature of sin — Art. l3. " These works the apoBtle calleth good works ; saying, we are God's workmanship, created... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1812 - 446 pages
...justification, have the nature of sin, (both because they spring not of faith in Christ, and because they are not done as God hath willed < and commanded them to be done,) what becomes of sanctification previous to justification ? It is utterly excluded: seeing whatever... | |
 | 1814 - 804 pages
...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 hath...be done, we doubt not but they have the nature of sin. The reason of this is obvious. A polluted heart can no more bring forth a good action, than a... | |
 | Richard Littlehales - 1813 - 56 pages
...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 hath willed and 23 commanded them to be done, we doubt not but they have; the Natnre of Sin. 12. Of Works of Supererogation.... | |
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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, neither do they make men meet to receive grace, or (as the... 
