“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
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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
Vermigli, Peter Martyr – ‘How Grace & Works are unto Eternal Life’ in The Common Places… (d. 1562; London: Henrie Denham et al., 1583), pt. 3, ch. 2. ‘Of the Calling of God & of his Grace’, pp. 52-58
Calvin, John
6. ‘Of Justification by Faith & by the Merit of Works’ in Institutes of the Christian Religion: 1541 French Edition tr. Elsie A. McKee (1541; Eerdmans, 2009), pp. 318-85
Institutes of the Christian Religion tr. Henry Beveridge (1559; Edinburgh: Calvin Translation Society, 1845), vol. 2, bk. 3
16. ‘Refutation of the Calumnies by which it is attempted to throw odium on this doctrine’ 385
Musculus, Wolfgang – Common Places of the Christian Religion (1560; London, 1563)
2nd Commandment, ‘Against the teachers of merits’ 53.b
‘Of Merits towards God’ 234.a
de Brès, Guy – The Staff of Christian Faith… for to Know the Antiquity of our Holy Faith… gathered out of the Works of the Ancient Doctors of the Church… (d. 1567; London, 1577)
‘Of Freewill, of the Merits of Works & of Justification by Faith’ 51-70
‘Of Merit & of Good Works’ 70-107
de Bres (1522-1567) was a Walloon pastor, Protestant reformer and theologian, a student of Calvin and Beza in Geneva.
Beza, Theodore – pp. 50-57 in A Book of Christian Questions & Answers… (London, 1574)
Ursinus, Zachary – 6. ‘Whether good works merit anything before God’ in The Sum of Christian Religion: Delivered… in his Lectures upon the Catechism… tr. Henrie Parrie (Oxford, 1587), Of Good Works
Perkins, William
A Golden Chain (Cambridge: Legat, 1600), Errors of the Papists in their distributing of the Causes of Salvation
9. That preparation to grace, which is caused by the power of free-will, may by the merit of congruity deserve justification
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16. Works done in grace do condignly merit eternal life
5. Of Merits in A Reformed Catholic… ([Cambridge] 1598)
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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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1500’s
Theodore Beza & Anthony Faius
Propositions & Principles of Divinity Propounded & Disputed in the University of Geneva by Certain Students of Divinity there, under Mr. Theodore Beza & Mr. Anthony Faius… (Edinburgh: Waldegrave, 1591), 25. ‘Of the Justification of Sinful Man in the Sight of God’, p. 60
“These Doctrines therefore are to be detested:
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8 That Christ does purchase the dignity of merit by our good works, which is a new-coined falsehood of the Jesuits.”
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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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