The Scottish Reformation: Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive CharacteristicsMitchell, Alexander F. (Alexander Ferrier)
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The Scottish Reformation: Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics
Mitchell, Alexander F. (Alexander Ferrier)
Reformation -- Scotland
[124] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 58. There is hardly one of these
expressions that may not be found in Calvin's Institutes:--
It behoves us to apprehend Confiteor nos justificari per
Christ Jesus with His justice and fidem quâtenus per eam apprehendimus
satisfaction. Jesum Christum.
We are set at this liberty Omni execratione quae nobis
that the curse and malediction incumbebat eximeremur dum in
of the law fall not upon us. eum traduceret. Fides, in Christi
damnatione absolutionem,
benedictionem in maledictione,
apprehendit.
God the Father, beholding Ubi nos in filii sui communionem
us in the body of His Son Christ semel recepit, opera
Jesus, accepts our imperfect nostra grata acceptaque habet,
obedience as it were perfect. non quod ita promereantur sed
quia condonatâ eorum imperfectione,
nil in illis intuetur, nisi
quod a Spiritu suo profectum,
purum ac sanctum est.
_Covers_ our works, which are Nullae nostrae sordes aut
defiled with many spots, with immunditiae imperfectionis
the justice of His Son. imputantur, sed illa puritate
Christi ac perfectione velut
sepultae _conteguntur_.
Cujus perfectione tegatur
nostra imperfectio. See also
Calvin's Catechism in Dunlop's
Confessions, ii. 175.
[125] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 95; Laing's Knox, ii. 119.
[126] [Of the six, all save Willock sign the letter to Beza on 4th
September 1566 (Laing's Knox, vi. 548-550).]
[127] Laing's Knox, vi. 546-548.
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