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The main principles of Christian religion in a 107 short articles or aphorisms, generally…
The main principles of Christian religion in a 107 short articles or aphorisms, generally received as being proved from scripture : now further cleared and confirmed by the consonant doctrine recorded in the articles and homilies of the Church of England ... / by Tho. Adams ...The main principles of Christian religion in a 107 short articles or aphorisms, generally receiv'd as being prov'd from scripture : now further cleared and confirm'd by the consonant doctrine recorded in the articles and homilies of the Church of England ... / by Tho. Adams ...
London : s.n., 1675
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Artic. XIII. 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 School-Authors say) deserve grace of congruity; yea, rather for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done, we doubt not but they have the nature of sin. Hom. III. p. 2. We have neither faith, charity, hope, patience, chastity, nor any thing else that good is, but of God, and therefore those virtues be called the fruits of the Holy Ghost, and not the fruits of man. —Truly there be imperfections in our best works.—Let us therefore not be ashamed to confess plainly our state of imperfection; yea, let us not be ashamed to confess imperfection, even in all our best works. To. 2. Hom. XVII. The holy company (of Saints in heaven) confesseth constantly, that all the goods and graces wherewith they were endued in soul, came of the goodness of God only. It is meet therefore to think, that all spiritual goodness cometh from God only.
Artic. XIII. 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 School-Authors say) deserve grace of congruity; yea, rather for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done, we doubt not but they have the nature of sin. Hom. III. p. 2. We have neither faith, charity, hope, patience, chastity, nor any thing else that good is, but of God, and therefore those virtues be called the fruits of the Holy Ghost, and not the fruits of man. —Truly there be imperfections in our best works.—Let us therefore not be asham'd to confess plainly our state of imperfection; yea, let us not be ashamed to confess imperfection, even in all our best works. To. 2. Hom. XVII. The holy company (of Saints in heaven) confesseth constantly, that all the goods and graces wherewith they were endued in soul, came of the goodness of God only. It is meet therefore to think, that all spiritual goodness cometh from God only.
Expl. 82. When 'tis said no mere man since the fall, &c. 'Tis clearly implied that before the fall man had power to keep the Law of God perfectly; but now since the