 | First Unitarian Society. Philadelphia - 1810 - 506 pages
...and widows in their affliction, and keep himself unspotted from the world: James i. 27. He asserts that a man is justified by works and not by faith only, and that faith is dead and useless if it be alone: chap. ii. 14 — 26. John teaches that God forgives... | |
 | John Willison - 1812 - 300 pages
...works of the law, Rom. iii. 28. Gal. if. 18: ' ' Q. How is it then that the afiostle James doth say, that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only? James ii. 24. Jl. It appears from the context, that James is riot speaking of our justification before... | |
 | James Everett - 1812 - 138 pages
...to prove it. But more of this hereafter. St. James, it is said, " Determines as clearly as possible, that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only" St. Paul's faith and St. James's works, seem to raise an insuperable difficulty in the author's mind,... | |
 | 1813 - 486 pages
...no part of of its nature or essence. But, it is objected, does not St. James say expressly, ii. 24, that a " man is justified by works, and not by faith only?" In answer to this capital objection, it is necessary to consider first, the preceding verses of this... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1814 - 554 pages
...Christ's righteousness ; in this sense, works do not justify : whereas the apostle James, when he asserts, that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only, intends that our profession and sincerity therein is justified ; that is evidenced, not by our having... | |
 | Lorenzo Dow - 1814 - 666 pages
...the body without the spirit is dead, »o faith without works is dead also,'— therefore, we conclude that a man is justified by WORKS and not by faith only. Let it ever be remembered, that jfaiih will never be called in question in the day of Judgment ; there... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1816 - 374 pages
...(saith St. James) that is, it is, evident to your sense, it is as clear as an occular demonstration, that a man is justified by 'works and not by faith only. My text hath in it these two propositions; a negative and an affirmative. The negative is this, 1.... | |
 | 1816 - 700 pages
...were judged out of the things written in the books according to their viorks.' St. James declares ' That a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.' And St. Paul gives to Titus, whom he had ordained a preacher of the Gospel, this solemn direction (which,... | |
 | 1816 - 700 pages
...were judged out of the things written in the books according to their works.' St. James declares ' That a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.' And St. Paul gives to Titus, whom he had ordained a preacher of the Gospel, thi* solemn direction (which,... | |
 | 1818 - 904 pages
...and St. James; one of whom asserts, that a man isj*ftified by faith without works,—and the other, that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only; Mr. Faber remarks, that of the three terms, jtutifieatim, faith, and works, contained in these passages,... | |
| |
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. 
