may receive the proper things of the body, according as he hath done, whether it be good or evil.”
2 Tim. iv. 8. “As to the rest, there is laid up for me a crown of justice, which the Lord, the just judge, will render to me at that day; and not to me only, but to them also that love his coming."
Heb. vi. 10. “For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work, and the love which you have shewn in his name, you who have ministered, and do minister to the saints.”
2 Pet.[1] i. 10. “Wherefore, brethren, labor the more, that by good works you may make your calling and election sure."
James,[2] ii. 14, 17, 26. “What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him?—Even so, faith, if it hath not works, is dead in itself. For as the body, without the spirit, is dead : so also faith without works is dead.”
As the doctrine of these three propositions is very generally admitted,—and all controversy on the subject, in regard to the belief of Roman Catholics, has in a great measure ceased,—I shall not insert the passages from the early Fathers, which I had prepared, and which, agreeably to my plan, should be here introduced, in order to show, that, as what our Church teaches is confirmed by the Scriptures, so is its descent from the Apostles also attested by the writings of
- ↑ St. Peter was the son of Jona, and the chief of the Apostles. He wrote two epistles to the Jewish converts, who were dispersed over Asia Minor; the first about the year 50, and the second a little before his death. Having governed the church at Antioch for some years, he established his apostolic chair at Rome, where he suffered martyrdom about the year 66.
- ↑ St. James was the brother of St. Jude, and bishop of Jerusalem, which church he governed twenty-nine years. He has left us one epistle.
