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Often appears with: scripture and its interpretation · scriptural interpretation · grace and charity · equity, mercy, and pardon · definition of sin
Usually: argument (1) · crisis of belief (1) · censure (1) · indignation (1)
He continues contrasting apostolic simplicity with scholastic overdefinition of grace, charity, sin, and church practices, claiming scripture would not support the later “strifes of words.”
of the head. For who can conceive these things, unless he has spent at least six and thirty years in the philosophical and supercelestial whims of Aristotle and the Schoolmen? In like manner, the apostles press to us grace; but which of them distinguishes between free grace and grace that makes a man acceptable? They exhort us to good works, and yet determine not what is the work working, and what a resting in the w…