...for the sake of what an all ' gracious Saviour has done 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,...

...be sufficient to show in what sense the ancestors of our establishment considered this doctrine : " 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...

...Faith may be as evidently known as a tree discerned by the fruit. XIII. Of Warte before Justification. 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...

...devils have ; " The devils also believe and tremble." ARTICLE XIII. Of Works before Justification. "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, b neither do they make men...

...Faith may be its evidently known, ns a Tree discerned by the Fruit. XII. Works before Justification. 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...

...of our Church ; who declares, in her 13th Article, «« Works done before the grace of Christ, and inspiration of his Spirit, are not pleasing to God ; forasmuch as they spring not out of faith in Christ." Faith in Jesus Christ purifies the heart. Till this be done, we have neither...

...degree. Free will, until sanetitled by regeneration, is a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint. And works, " done before the grace of Christ and the inspiration of his Spirit, are," as our church justly pronounces them to be, " sinful and displeasing to God (&)." Nay, even the best...

...my proof shall have been examined. The thirteenth article of the Protestant Episcopal Church is — "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...

...freedom of choice among courses of action which are equally open to us. Hence is drawn the inference that ' works done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration of his Spirit . . . have the nature of sin ' ;2 and in deplorable opposition to the larger view of Clement of Alexandria,...

...and that thus, although they were done " before justification," they cannot truly be described as " works done before the grace of Christ and the inspiration of His Spirit " ; for, as Augustine says, " Whatever of good works Cornelius performed as well before he believed...