Lectures to Professing Christians
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ISBN13: 9781502535153
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ExcerptThere are two extremes in religion, equally false and equally fatal. And there are two classes of hypocrites that occupy these two extremes. The first class make religion to consist altogether in the belief of certain abstract doctrines, or what they call faith, and lay little or no stress on good works. The other class make religion to consist altogether in good works, (I mean, dead works) and lay little or no stress on faith in Jesus Christ, but hope for salvation by their own deeds. The Jews belonged generally to the last-mentioned class. Their religious teachers taught them that they would be saved by obedience to the ceremonial law. And therefore, when Paul began to preach, he seems to have attacked more especially this error of the Jews. He was determined to carry the main question, that men are justified by faith in Jesus Christ, in opposition to the doctrine of the scribes and pharisees, that salvation is by obedience to the law. And he pressed that point so earnestly, in his preaching and in his epistles, that he carried it, and settled the faith of the church in the great doctrine of justification by faith. And then certain individuals in the church laid hold of this doctrine and carried it to the opposite extreme, and maintained that men are saved by faith altogether, irrespective of works of any kind. They overlooked the plain principle, that genuine faith always results in good works, and is itself a good work.
| ISBN-13 | 9781502535153 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1502535157 |
| Weight | 1.06 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.00 x 0.81 x 9.00 In |
| List Price | $15.98 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 358 pages |
| Publisher | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Published On | 2014-09-29 |
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