An exposition of the thirty nine articles of the Church of England . ^cut our Saivation mth fear and trembling. Our believing that wefhall be Saved by Chrift, is no Ad of Divine Faith 5 fince e-very Aft of Faith muft be founded on fome Divine Revelati-on : It is only a Colledion and Inference that we may rnakefrom this general i ropofition. That Chrift is the propitiati-on for the Sins of thofe who do truly repent and believe hisGofpel; and from thofe Refleftions and Obfervations that wemake on our felves, by which we conclude, That we do trulyboth repent and ARTICLE of the Church of
An exposition of the thirty nine articles of the Church of England . ^cut our Saivation mth fear and trembling. Our believing that wefhall be Saved by Chrift, is no Ad of Divine Faith 5 fince e-very Aft of Faith muft be founded on fome Divine Revelati-on : It is only a Colledion and Inference that we may rnakefrom this general i ropofition. That Chrift is the propitiati-on for the Sins of thofe who do truly repent and believe hisGofpel; and from thofe Refleftions and Obfervations that wemake on our felves, by which we conclude, That we do trulyboth repent and ARTICLE of the Church of England. iji ARTICLE XII. ijnru Of Good Works: Alheh that Good TVor{Sj rphich gre the fruhi of Faitb^ and foflore after ^ujiificxtion, cannot put away our Sins^ and endurethe feverity of Gods Judgment: yet are they pleafing and acceptable to God in Chrift^ and do [prmg out neceffarily of a trueand lively Faith^ infomuch that by them a lively Faith tnay beas evidently Ijiovpn^ as a Tree difcerned by the fruit. THat Good works are indifpenfably neceflary to Salvation ithat without holinefs no Man (hall fee the Lord ; is fo fullyand frequently exprefl in the Gofpel, that no doubt can bemade of it by any who. reads it: And indeed a greater difpa-ragement to the Chriftian Religion cannot be imagined, thanto propofe the hopes of Gods Mercy and Pardon barely uponBelieving, without a Life fuitable to the Rules it gives began early to corrupt, the Theories of Religion, as itsftill has but too great an influence upon the Praftice of St. ^ames writ upon t
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