I argued in favor of the probability of the Legislature, when it extended its machinery of civil government over that section of country, passing an act validating the judgments and decrees or providing for a liberal mode and time for an appeal from them.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
Luther was in direct line with Augustine as Augustine was in direct line with St. Paul, and Luther's fundamental doctrine-justification by faith-was not so much a rewriting of ancient creeds as a new way of validating their meaning for the individual.
"Modern Religious Cults and Movements"
Gaius Glenn Atkins
The validating experience has come generally to be known as conversion, and conversion has played a great part in evangelical Protestantism ever since the Reformation.
"Modern Religious Cults and Movements"
Gaius Glenn Atkins