-Romans iv. 5. The following things may be noted in this verse:...That justification respects a man as ungodly. This is evident by these words,—that justifieth the ungodly; which cannot imply less, than that God, in the act of justification, has no regard to any thing in the person justified, as godliness, or any goodness in him; but that immediately before this act, God beholds him only as an ungodly creature...
Justification By Faith Alone (1738)
Justification By Faith Alone (1738)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 362.
Muhammad Kulayni, Usūl al-Kāfī, vol.2, p. 234
“Who breaks his faith, no faith is held with him.”
Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)
“It was Lazarus faith, not his poverty, which brought him into Abraham's bosom.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 455.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 229.
Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage
Edwards later writes in this sermon... "The entire active uniting of the soul, or the whole of what is called coming to Christ, and receiving of him, is called faith in Scripture..."
Justification By Faith Alone (1738)
