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. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ...of God, sitting on the right hand of the Father, a potent mediator interceding for us; and he bids thee be assured that thy sins are forgiven thee, and that thou art reputed just, and art received of the Father, for the sake of that Son, the victim immolated on the cross J." What is, above all, ...
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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. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ...of God, sitting on the right hand of the Father, a potent mediator interceding for us; and he bids thee be assured that thy sins are forgiven thee, and that thou art reputed just, and art received of the Father, for the sake of that Son, the victim immolated on the cross J." What is, above all, remarkable in this first edition of the Common Places, is the manner in which the theologian of Germany speaks of free-will. He perceives, still better perhaps than Luther, because he was more of a theologian than he, that this doctrine cannot be separated from that which was the essence of the Reformation. Man's justification before God proceeds only from faith; this is the " Librum invictum," he said again, "non solum immortalitate, sed et canone ecelesiastico dignum." (De servo arbitrio.) t Loci commune theologici. Basel, 1521. p. 35. This edition is very rare. See, for subsequent revisions, that of Erlangen, 1828, taken from that of Basel of 1561. I Vult te intueri Filium Dei sedentem ad dextram Patiis, mediatorem interpeUantem pro nobis. (Ibid.) first point: that faith proceeds in the heart of man only from God's grace; this is the second point. Melanchthou felt clearly that if there be admitted in man any natural capacity for believing, this must overthrow, in the second point, the great doctrine of grace established in the first. He had too much discernment and understanding of Scripture to go astray in so grave a matter. But he went too far. Instead of confining himself within the limits of the religious question, he entered on the domain of metaphysics, and established a fatalism which might cause God to be regarded as the author of evil, and which, consequently, has no foundation in Scripture. "Every thing...
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