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Facts and Assertions: or a Brief and Plain Exhibition of the Incongruity of the Peculiar Doctrines of the Church of Rome: With Those Both of the Sacred Scriptures and of the Early Writers of the Christian Church Catholic — John Shaqi

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Facts and Assertions: or a Brief and Plain Exhibition of the Incongruity of the Peculiar Doctrines of the Church of Rome: With Those Both of the Sacred Scriptures and of the Early Writers of the Christian Church Catholic

Name: Facts and Assertions: or a Brief and Plain Exhibition of the Incongruity of the Peculiar Doctrines of the Church of Rome: With Those Both of the Sacred Scriptures and of the Early Writers of the Christian Church Catholic
Author: Faber, George Stanley

Faber, George Stanley

Catholic Church -- Controversial literature

_So great is the abundance of divine munificence_, _that we are able to
make satisfaction to God the Father through Jesus Christ_, _not only by
punishments __either spontaneously undergone by ourselves for the
avenging of sin or imposed upon us by the will of the priest according to
the measure of our offence_, _but also_ (_what is the greatest argument
of love_) _by temporal flagellations inflicted of God and by us patiently
endured_. {40a}

II.  Thus speaks the Roman Church: let us now hear the declarations of
Holy Scripture.

1.  _When ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you_,
_say_: _We are unprofitable servants_; _we have done that which it was
our duty to do_. {40b}

2.  _Two men went up into the temple to pray_: _the one_, _a Pharisee_;
_and the other_, _a Publican_.  _The Pharisee stood_, _and prayed thus
with himself_: _God_, _I thank thee_, _that I am not as other men are_,
_extortioners_, _unjust_, _adulterers_, _or even as this Publican_.  _I
fast twice in the week_: _I give tythes of all that I possess_.  _And the
Publican_, _standing afar off_, _would not lift up so much as his eyes
unto heaven_; _but smote upon his breast_, _saying_: _God be merciful to
me a sinner_!  _I tell you_: _This man went down to his house justified
rather than the other_: _for every one_, _that exalteth himself_, _shall
be abased_; _and he_, _that humbleth himself_, _shall be exalted_. {40c}

3.  _Where is boasting then_?  _It is excluded_.  _By what law_?  _Of
works_?  _Nay_, _but by the law of faith_.  _Therefore we conclude_:
_that a man is justified by faith_, _without the deeds of the law_. {40d}

4.  _If Abraham were justified by works_, _he hath whereof to glory_,
_but not before God_.  _For what saith the Scripture_?  _Abraham believed
God_: _and it was counted unto him for righteousness_.  _Now_, _to him
that worketh_, _is the reward reckoned_, _not of grace_, _but of debt_.
_But_, _to him that worketh not_, _but believeth on him that justifieth
the ungodly_, _his faith is counted for righteousness_. {40e}

5.  _Therefore_, _being justified by faith_, _we have peace with God_,
_through our Lord Jesus Christ_. {41a}

6.  _They_, _being ignorant of God’s righteousness_, _and going about to
establish their own righteousness_, _have not submitted themselves unto
the righteousness of God_. {41b}

7.  _We are all as an unclean thing_: _and all our righteousnesses are as
filthy rags_. {41c}

III.  Let us next attend to the language of the old orthodox Fathers.

1.  Clement of Rome, in the first century, speaks as follows.

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