Showing posts with label Salvation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Salvation. Show all posts

Monday, 11 October 2021

These Methodists preach Salvation through Faith in Christ without Repentance from Sin and I preach Repentance from Sin and then Salvation through Christ

These Methodists preach Salvation through Faith in Christ without Repentance from Sin and I preach Repentance from Sin and then Salvation through Christ. No wonder that the first takes with disorderly people more than the last for if they may be saved without forsaking their Sins tis an easy thing to say they have Faith, but it is not an easy thing to forsake their Sins. 

W. Holland, Paupers and pig killers: the diary of William Holland 1799-1818, ed. J. Ayres (1984), 270 [Sunday March 3, 1816]

Thursday, 15 March 2018

I must render an account to a Lord who in his goodness does not count in farthings

Over the next two weeks he grew progressively worse. During one of his visits, Bernini's nephew, an Oratorian priest, Father Filippo (Domenico says Francesco) Marchese, asked him about the state of his soul and whether he was afraid to die. Baldinucci indicates that Bernini replied, "Father, I must render an account to a Lord who in his goodness does not count in farthings."

Gianlorenzo Bernini, cited in J. Morrissey, The genius in the design (2005), 266-7