unmeritable

(ʌnˈmɛrɪtəbəl)

adj

literary not worthy of merit, praise, or reward

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Augustine's emphasis on divine sovereignty in salvation was the backdrop for the Reformers' more precise soteriological formulation: God's grace, unmerited and unmeritable, justifies sinners through the imputation of the external, "alien" righteousness of Jesus Christ, which is mediated through faith understood as trust, reliance, dependence.

What the Reformers Thought They Were Doing: To understand the Protestant Reformation, forget the myths and look to the motifs

This is a slight unmeritable man, meet to be sent on errands.

Wisdom from will: the bard takes the measure of the board

He liquidates the 'slight unmeritable man' as soon as he safely can.

Our first sin: the Shakespearean scenario

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