The Eclectic Review Volume 10; V. 74

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1841 Excerpt: ... 'and gifts.' 'That which is called our righteousness because 'we are justified through its being inherent in us, that same is 'the righteousness of God, because it is infused into us by God 'through the merit of Christ.' 'If any one shall say that 'justification, once obtained, is not increased by good works, 'but that these are only the fruits and signs of justification, let 'him be accursed.' So says the Council of Trent, and hence, as so often alleged, they confound justification and sanctification; or as Bishop Downame says, ' of two benefits they make but' 'one, and utterly abolish the benefit of sanctification.' 'This 'they do in two respects; first, they hold that to justify in this 'question signifieth to make righteous by righteousness inhe'rent, or by infusion of righteousness, that is to sanctify. 'Secondly, they make remission of sins to be not the pardoning 'and forgiving of sin, but the utter deletion and expulsion of 'sin by infusion of righteousness. Thus they make justification 'wholly to consist in the parts of sanctification.' And now what says Mr. Newman, the Coryphaeus of the Oxford party, in reply to the above question?' It is usual at 'the present day to lay great stress on the distinction between 'deliverance from guilt and deliverance from sin; to lay down 'as a first principle that these are two coincident, indeed, and 'contemporary, but altogether independent benefits; to call 'them justification and renewal, and to consider that any con'fusion between them argues serious and alarming ignorance of 'christian truth This distinction is not scriptural.... 'In truth Scripture speaks of but one gift, which it sometimes 'calls renewal, sometimes justification, according as it views it, 'passing to and fro from one to the other, so rapid...