...encounter with God. In the Articles of Religion, the doctrine of justification is set forth in these words: We are accounted righteous before God, only for the...largely is expressed in the Homily of Justification. The essential concern in this passage is linked to the word merit: it is only 'for the merit of our...

...Homily of Justification.' 4 The essential concern in this passage is linked to the word merit: it is only 'for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Faith' that mankind is justified before God, 'not for our own works or deservings'. In the latter Middle Ages...

...25, "Of the Sacraments." See also articles 11-14, on justification and works, eg, from article u, "Of the Justification of Man": "We are accounted righteous...by Faith, and not for our own works or deservings." These articles became the official doctrine of the English church in 1571. For a summary history, see...

...mortal endeavour, he should embrace the distant 'hope of heaven', as the Protestant is ultimately saved 'only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Faith'. Despite the apparent authority of this instruction, the first 'Pageants' do not close The Ruines of...

...reminds his modernistic friends that evangelists and all Bible believers hold in spirit the creed, "We are accounted righteous before God only for the...by faith and not for our own works or deservings." This modernist, this Unitarian minister, this Master of the Masonic Lodge, denies the doctrine of salvation...

...and XII from the Church of England Prayer Book affirm the doctrine of justification by faith alone: 'We are accounted righteous before God, only for the...by Faith, and not for our own works or deservings'; and '... Good Works, which are the fruits of Faith, and follow after Justification, cannot put away...

...Article, derived from the Augsburg Confession, is seemingly def1ned in a solafideistic Lutheran sense: "That we are justified by faith only, is a most wholesome doctrine." Burnet argued that the definition was not exclusively Lutheran: "By faith only, is not to be meant...

...classical creeds. Articles 9-14 deal with original sin, free will, and justification, proclaiming that "we are accounted righteous before God, only for the...by Faith, and not for our own works or deservings" and that "Good Works, which are the fruits of Faith, and follow after Justification, ... do spring...

...the salvation ofmankind, in Certain homilies, p. 1 9. 124. pp. 22—3; cf. Articles of Religion XI ('that we are justified by Faith only is a most wholesome Doctrine, and very full of comfort'). For the influence of Luther on Cranmer's doctrine of justification, see Hall (1993). 125. Latimer,...

...of Scripture and our own Church concerning justification which she thus sums up in her Articles:202 'We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord Jesus Christ through faith, and not for our own works or deservings. Wherefore, that we are justified...