On Merit

“So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, ‘We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.'”

Lk. 17:10

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Subsection

Whether Christ Merited Glory for Himself

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Order of Contents

Articles  5
Latin  1


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Articles

1500’s

Zwingli, Ulrich – Commentary on True & False Religion  eds. Jackson & Heller  (1525; Labyrinth Press, 1981)

‘Merit’, pp. 271-79
‘Merit’  in II. ‘Reply to Emser’, pp. 388-92

Calvin, John – Institutes of the Christian Religion  tr. Henry Beveridge  (1559; Edinburgh: Calvin Translation Society, 1845), vol. 2, bk. 3

15. ‘The boasted merit of Works subversive both of the Glory of God, in bestowing Righteousness, and of the certainty of Salvation’ 374

16. ‘Refutation of the Calumnies by which it is attempted to throw odium on this doctrine’ 385

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1600’s

Turretin, Francis – 5. ‘Is there a merit of congruity or condignity?  Do good works merit eternal life?  We deny against the Romanists.’  in Institutes of Elenctic Theology, tr. George M. Giger, ed. James Dennison Jr.  (1679–1685; P&R, 1994), vol. 2, 17th Topic, pp. 710-24


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Latin Article

1600’s

Voet, Gisbert – ‘On the Adjuncts & Requisites of Good Works: truthfulness or sincerity, necessity, preciseness, constancy or progress, efficacy or causality and of the opposite, merit, of imperfection’  in 50. ‘A Syllabus of Questions on the Whole Decalogue’  in Select Theological Disputations  (Amsterdam: Jansson, 1667), p. 770

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