| Jaroslav Pelikan - 2005 - 678 pages
...and the works of decent citizens who are not Christians— of those who, as it says elsewhere, are "diligent to frame their lives according to the light...nature, and the law of that religion they do profess" 12— are, as to "the matter of them" and in their outward content, not obviously different from each... | |
| Terrance L. Tiessen - 2009 - 516 pages
...10.4, which denies that "people not professing the Christian religion" can "be saved in any other way whatsoever, be they never so diligent to frame their...nature and the law of that religion they do profess." Accessibilists probably take the confession to be excluding salvation by works in this phrase. "Church... | |
| Gerald Lewis Bray - 2004 - 682 pages
...cannot be saved;232 much less can men not professing the Christian religion be saved in any other way whatsoever, be they never so diligent to frame their lives according to the light of nature, and the laws of that religion they do profess.2" And to assert and maintain that they may is very pernicious,... | |
| Walter B. Shurden - 2005 - 332 pages
...the Ministry of the Word . . . much less can men that receive not the Christian Religion be saved; be they never so diligent to frame their lives according...light of nature, and the Law of that Religion they do profess.6 That simple paragraph contains both the dark night and the bright morning of Calvinism. On... | |
| John Sparks - 2005 - 508 pages
...can men that receive not the Christian religion (Acts iv. 12; John iv. 22; John xvii. 3) be saved; be they never so diligent to frame their lives according...light of nature and the law of that religion they do profess.8 Thus if one wanted to read into these early predestinarian creeds the notion that all persons... | |
| Kenneth Cracknell, Susan J. White - 2005 - 302 pages
...less can men not professing the Christian religion; be they never so diligent to frame their loves according to the light of nature and the law of that religion which they do profess, and to assert and maintain that they may is very pernicious and to be detested.... | |
| Robert Tudur Jones, Kenneth Dix, Alan Ruston - 2006 - 448 pages
...can not be saved: much less can men, not professing the Christian religion, be saved in any other way whatsoever, be they never so diligent to frame their...that they may is very pernicious, and to be detested. CHAPTER XI. Of Justification . I. Those whom God effectually calleth, he also freely justifieth: not,... | |
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