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. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. The great Saxon Reformer was wont to say: that The Doctrine of Justification, according to the soundness or the unsoundness of its statement, is the Article of a Standing or a Falling Church. To establish the correctness of this observation, in the sense designed ...
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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. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. The great Saxon Reformer was wont to say: that The Doctrine of Justification, according to the soundness or the unsoundness of its statement, is the Article of a Standing or a Falling Church. To establish the correctness of this observation, in the sense designed by Luther, would, on the principles of historical testimony, be a matter of no ordinary vexation of spirit, should we find ourselves compelled to admit, as an indisputable verity, the acknowledgment of the late Mr. Milner and the assertion of the late Mr. Knox. Widely as these two writers differ from each other in their respective views of the Doctrine of Justification; yet, in one point, they remarkably agree: and, as the acknowledgment of that one point, if not precisely fatal, is yet not a little injurious to the view of the Doctrine taken by Mr. Milner; and as Mr. Milner, nevertheless, may not unfairly be said to acknowledge the point in question; Mr. Knox, reasonably enough, compliments him with the valuable title of Honest: for a man, no doubt, must be honest, who can thus impartially state, and thence by implication confess, the essential weakness of his own System. Mr. Milner, it seems, acknowledges: that The view of Justification, taken by himself, was, at least in its explicit form, either totally unknown, or something very like totally unknown, from the end of the first century, until the time of the Reformation in the sixteenth century. And Mr. Knox, who prefers that view of Justification which he confidently alleges to have been generally taken during a term of fourteen centuries, thence draws a powerful evidential argument in favour of his own opinion: for, if the usual protestant definition, which is substantially advocated by...
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