Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ... much honour on God's holy word. In other chapters of this work many such witnesses have been adduced. But.this chapter will consist chiefly of the views of others on the subject in hand. The language of God's people often varies considerably, but the sense of the following quotations is clearly confirmatory of our doctrine. Having already noticed the views of the writers of the first five centuries, the first now given is that of Gregory. He says: "Our righteous Advocate shall defend us in the day of judgment, because we know and accuse ourselves to be unrighteous. Therefore let us not trust to our tears, nor to our actions, but to the alleging of our Advocate." Calvin remarking on Rom. v. 19, says: " The meaning is, that as by the sin of Adam we were alienated from God, and devoted to destruction, so by the obedience of Christ we are received into favour, as righteous persons. Nor does the future tense of the verb exclude present righteousness; as appears from the context. For he had before said, " The free gift is of many offences unto justification." Again, "if righteousness consist in an observance of the law, who can deny that Christ merited favour for us, when by bearing this burden himself he reconciles us to God, just as though wye were complete observers of the law ourselves." Bishop Latimer says: " When we believe in Christ, it is like as if we had no sins. For he changeth with us. He taketh our sins and wickedness from us, and giveth unto us his holiness, righteousness, justice, fulfilling of the law, and so consequently everlasting life. So that we be like as if we had done no sin at all; for his righteousness standeth us in good stead, as though we of our own selves had fulfilled the law." Bishop Hooper says: " We must only...