Selected quad for the lemma: work_n

Word A Word B Word C Word D Occurrence Frequency Band MI MI Band Prominent
work_n faith_n jesus_n justification_n 6,056 5 8.9027 5 false
View all documents for the selected quad

Text snippets containing the quad

ID Title Author Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) STC Words Pages
A34345 Considerations about subscription, humbly submitted to the convocation, on behalf of the conformable clergy with some reflections on the late subscription, made by our dissenting brethren. 1690 (1690) Wing C5906; ESTC R18960 13,980 37

There is 1 snippet containing the selected quad. | View lemmatised text

consult the 11th Article which refers to this Homily and see how far those who subscribe to this Article do thereby Assent unto the matter of this Homily Artic. 11. We are accounted Righteous before God only for the Merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Faith and not for our own works or deservings Wherefore that we are justified by Faith only is a most WHOLESOM Doctrine and VERY FULL OF COMFORT as more LARGELY is EXPRESSED in the Homily of Justification This Doctrine is a most wholesom Doctrine and VERY FULL OF COMFORT But in what respects so comfortable what are the grounds thereof That we may know in what respects on what grounds we are by the Article directed to the Homily where it is thus more largely expressed For the more full understanding the same it is our part to remember how that all the World being wrapped in sin by breakin of the Law God sent his only Son our Saviour Jesus Christ into this World to FULFILL THE LAW FOR US and by shedding of his most Precious Blood to make a Sacrifice and satisfaction or as it may be called amends to his Father for our sins to asswage his Wrath and Indignation conceived against us for the same Insomuch that Infants being Baptized and Dying in their Infancy are by this Sacrifice washed from their Sins brought to Gods Favour and made his Children and Inheritors of his Kingdom of Heaven Here then is the Article and a part of the Homily the Article holds that the Doctrine of Justification is very full of comfort as expressed more largely in the Homily The Homily tells us that for the more full understanding hereof we must remember how Christ has fulfilled the Law for us made himself a Sacrifice insomuch that Baptized Infants Dying in their Infancy shall by Christs Blood be washed from their Sins and saved Now this is a very great ground of joy and hereby the Doctrine of Justification is become the more abundantly comfortable and by subscribing to this Article thus worded we also subscribe unto this Homily that is to say as the Article is an Epitome of the Homily and the Homily an Explanation of the Homily and the Homily an Explanation of the Article in subscribing to the former we subscribe to the Doctrine contained in the latter In subscribing to the Article we subscribe to every Doctrine in this Homily that sets forth the comfortableness of Justification through Jesus Christs Merits by Faith alone and herein doth the Homily shew the comfortableness of this Doctrine by assuring us that all our Children that have been Baptized Dying in their Infancy are saved So that this Reverend N. Conforming Brother subscribing to this part of the 11th Article closes with the very Doctrine for which he so much condemns our Clergy I have insisted thus long on the subscriptions of our Dissenting Brethren that whilst we present our humble supplications to the Convocation for Redress they may see that there is no reason for their Reproaching us with our subscriptions That our Clergy notwithstanding their Unanimous subscribing the same Articles have different thoughts about them is not denied by any of us That this may be without falling under the Odious Guilt of Equivocation and Mental Reserves is cleared by the distinction there is between Articles of Peace and Articles of Faith By subscribing we think we are not obliged tobelieve them but only not to contradict or oppose them That this our sense is not allowed by the Church is more than we dare be positive in There are three great Worthies of our Communion who doubt it not and we have oft in Publick-Prints declared our sense without Rebuke or Controul and if notwithstanding the Church is against our Sense we cannot be Censured for Equivocation the utmost can be said against us is that we have mistaken the Churches sence which is not so great a Crime as the declaring Assent to an Article when really we do not believe it to be true However that there are difficulties attending our Way is yielded and the Arguments against it so strong that on a Review from a fear that our Subscription signifies our Assent to every subscribed Article many Perplexities arise in our Minds For which Reason we do most Humbly beseech both Houses of Convocation to take this Case into their Consideration that what in their Great Wisdom they think meet for the Peace and Quiet of the Minds of many Godly and Learned Divines True and Obedient Sons of the Church may in this matter be done FINIS