The Fruits Of Justification, Or The Merit Of Good Works The principal fruit of justification, according to the Tridentine Council,(1220) is the meritoriousness of all good works performed in the state of sanctifying grace.
Other Patristic texts inculcating the meritoriousness of good works performed in the state of grace can be found in Bellarmine, De Iustif.
Theologically the meritoriousnessof good works is based on the providence of God.
Being morally good, the works of obligation are also meritorious, because goodness and meritoriousness are correlative terms.
What we have said is sufficient to disprove the groundless assertion that the Catholic doctrine concerning the meritoriousness of good works derogates from the merits of Christ and fosters “self-righteousness.
He contends against the doctrine of righteousness by works, the meritoriousness of vows, etc.
In 1643 a disputation was held, in which Hornejus, a colleague of Calixt, supported his doctrine especially on the meritoriousness of good works.
They were less tainted than the old monastic orders with that superstition which had flowed into the church from the east, the meritoriousness of self-inflicted suffering for its own sake.
Abstention from labour is the convenient evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing; and this insistence on the meritoriousness of wealth leads to a more strenuous insistence on leisure.
And does not the excellency and meritoriousness of a creature's faith appear in this,--that while God is known to be so mighty and so absolute, he is confided in as a being who will never violate any moral principle or affection?
His dispositions are infinitely pure, and his will freely determines to do right; it is not compelled or necessitated, for then his infinite meritoriousness would cease.
But the idea of obligation and meritoriousness allies itself only with a deed, a work, which cannot be demanded of me, or which does not necessarily proceed from my nature.
Meritoriousness always involves the notion that a thing is done, so to speak, out of luxury, not out of necessity.
The belief in the meritoriousnessof works had in the past been a stimulus to pecuniary sacrifices and offerings for the making of pious works of art.
His chief bugbear is the meritoriousness of any keeping of the Law.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "meritoriousness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
