A discourse on Justification

[BBAS 64]

Good Day, All

A work was recommended to me on this subject. I am planning to read this over the next couple of weeks.

The work is by R. Hooker an Anglican theologian from England (1554-1600). I thought it would be nice to read it as a group and disscuss it here. I will post a link to this thread in the Anglican fourm so they may participate.

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http://www.ccel.org/ccel/hooker/just.pdf


Peace to u,

Bill

 

[Jon_]

We ourselves do not teach Christ alone, excluding our own faith, unto justification, Christ alone, excluding our own works, unto sanctification, Christ alone, excluding the one or the other as unnecessary unto salvation. It is a childish cavil wherewith in the matter of justification our adversaries do so greatly please themselves, exclaiming that we tread all Christian virtues under our feet and require nothing in Christians but faith, because we teach that faith alone justifieth; whereas by this speech we never meant to exclude either hope and charity from being always joined as inseparable mates with faith in the man that is justified, or works from being added as necessary duties, required at the hands of every justified man, but to show that faith is the only hand which putteth on Christ unto justification, and Christ the only garment which, being so put on, covereth the shame of our defiled natures, hideth the imperfections of our works, preserveth us blameless in the sight of God, before whom otherwise the very weakness of our faith were cause sufficient to make us culpable, yea, to shut us out from the kingdom of heaven, where nothing that is not absolute can enter. (Hooker, A Learned Discourse on Justification, p. 27)

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Soli Deo Gloria

Jon

 

[Irishcat922]

You have got to love the Puritans. Men who truly understood the Holiness of God and the Depravity of man. Praise God for them.