 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1841 - 464 pages
...plainly they are, then is it impossible we should be justified before God by them, in the same sense, way and manner. Wherefore, when the Apostle James affirms,...it would introduce several sorts of righteousness to justification, that are inconsistent and destructive of each other. This was the first mistake of... | |
 | Jonathan Dickinson - 1841 - 338 pages
...by a course of sincere obedience to the gospel. Of this the apostle James speaks, when he tells us, that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only." Sir, you cannot be insensible, that this plea is utterly inconsistent with the evasions before offered.... | |
 | John Le Bosquet - 1841 - 140 pages
...invariable attendants, and attestations of our faith. And St. James teaches nothing more, in saying that a man is justified by works and not by faith only, than that faith and works accompany each other, the faith to justify, and the works as that fruit of... | |
 | Vanbrugh Livingston - 1843 - 278 pages
...especially on this point, by his refusal, in toto, to admit the epistle of James among' the canonical books. that ' a man is justified by works, and not by faith only,' there is a great difference between Paul's only and James 7 nnly. For Paul's only is to be understood... | |
 | 1843 - 822 pages
...the case with regard to the subject now under consideration. We are expressly assured by St. James, that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only, and that faith alone cannot save us ; for that this is implied just as clearly in the emphatic question... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - 1843 - 296 pages
...faith, by a memorable and most difficult act of obedience. Thus is he brought to his general conclusion, that " a man is justified by works, and not by faith ONLY." On this subject we are competent to say, that as sinners we are justified (ie we receive the pardon... | |
 | William Beveridge - 1844 - 490 pages
...doth not say that we are justified by the works ot James2.24. the Law without faith, he only saith, that "A man is justified by works, and not by faith only;" where He plainly as,i'ri, our Justification by faith, and only denies thatwe are justified by faith... | |
 | 1844 - 524 pages
...'Tis true that Paul says we are "justified by faith without the works of the law" and James declares that " a man is justified by works and not by faith only." Observe the precise language of the two Apostles, and the subjects upon which each is treating. Paul... | |
 | George Bull - 1844 - 450 pages
...St. James's language be not clear, perspicuous and express ? Certainly, in the Apostle's conclusion, that " a man is justified by works, and not by faith only," there is not a word, not a term, (to use the barbarous language of the schoolmen,) the meaning of which... | |
 | Joseph CLARKE (Vicar of Eling.) - 1845 - 376 pages
...of the sermon, he said, that workmongers was worse than infidels — and that St. James never wrote that 'a man is justified by works, and not by faith only', for either St. Paul or St. James must be a liar; but as that couldn't be, it must have been put in... | |
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Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." And he was called the friend of God. You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only. 
