...Ecclesiae. -i ,nl"i I"1!-! f "Works done before the grace of Christ and the inspiration of hii • Spirit are not pleasant to God, forasmuch as they spring not of faith •in Christ. Yea rather, we doubt not but they have the nature of • sin." Thirteenth. Article nf the Church...

...regeneration, to follow after it; namely, this : works done " before the grace of Christ," or regeneration, are not " pleasant to God, forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Christ" Then, most manifestly, the "faith of Christ" cannot exist before the " inspiration Of his Spirit,"...

...and may fully justify the more guarded censure conveyed in the thirteenth Article of our Church, on " works " done before the grace of Christ and the " inspiration of his Spirit." If, therefore, the apparent virtues of the heathen can be traced to impure or earthly sources, it is...

...yet being directed to a wrong end it becomes sin. — Institut. I. 3. c. 14. s. 3. CHURCH OF ENGLAND. Works done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration...Christ, neither do they make men meet to receive grace, or (as the school authors say) deserve grace of congruity : yea, rather for that they are not done...

...justification, is a most certain and wholesome doctrine for Christian men. 12. Works lefore Justification. Works done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration...pleasant to God, forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Jesu Christ ' , neither do they make men meet to receive grace, (or as.the school authors say) deserve...

...of the Church of England on this point is very clear and full. In the 13th article she says, that " Works done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration...to God ; forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Christ — yea, rather for that they are not done, as God hath willed and commanded them to be done,...

...holy God, because it does not proceed from a pure motive. On this ground our church says, Artie, xiii. "Works done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration...Spirit, are not pleasant to God, forasmuch as they are not of faith in Jesus Christ ; yea, for that they are not done аз God hath willed A'Vrir.^sf...

...good will, and working with us, when we have that good will." And your thirteenth article says, that " works done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration of his spirit, are not pleasant to God; for as much as they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ, neither do they make men meet to receive grace...

...for the sake of what an all gra* cious Saviour has d9ne and suffered for him.' — If these works be done ' before the grace of Christ, and ' the inspiration of his Spirit, they are not acceptable to ' God, but have the nature of sin:' if afterwards, they come too late, they...

...a most certain and (f) wholesonie doctrine for (m) Christian men, (M) JVorks before Justification. Works done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration...; neither do they make men meet to receive grace, or (as the school-authors say) deserve grace of congruity : (e) but, because they are not done as God...