Who Said That?
Friday, June 27, 2008 at 06:43PM 
"It should never be forgotten that the faith that is the condition of justification, is the faith that works by love. It is the faith through and by which Christ sanctifies the soul. A sanctifying faith unites the believer to Christ as his justification; but be it always remembered, that no faith receives Christ as a justification, that does not receive him as a sanctification, to reign within the heart. We have seen that repentance, as well as faith, is a condition of justification. We shall see that perseverance in obedience to the end of life is also a condition of justification."
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Kim Riddlebarger
This comment comes from page 326 of Charles Finney's Systematic Theology. Once again this demonstrates that there is nothing new under the sun, and that if you reject justification sola fide, you'll end up somewhere down the road towards a final justification based upon works.
Reader Comments (21)
That was a general comment about how revivalism has won the day. Old-school Presbyterian theology, piety and practice is the lost soul of American Protestantism.