Friday, January 14, 2011

Faith-based Justification and Works-based Justification Juxtaposed in Bullinger?

The following quotation from Bullinger’s Compendium might give the impression that Bullinger juxtaposes a faith-based justification with a works-based justification. It certainly may appear that way. The quotation is taken from that section of the Compendium that Bullinger entitles “That God has bound man to him, unto salvation and perpetual worship.” In this quotation Bullinger links the covenant with God with justification:

“For religion seemeth not so much to have her name of reading as of binding. And we are bound unto God, and joined in league through his free mercy (as has been said) by faith. Therefore the covenant of God and true religion are all one. And they are religious, which being (con)federates joined in league with God, do cleave unto his word and honor and serve him despising all other things.”
(Heinrich Bullinger, Common Places of the Christian Religion, translated by J. Stockwood (London: 1572), p43)

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