And here I lbould now fpeake fomewhat oftheapplying oi' ufe of!c: but rhe rime harh overtaken me and will not permit it. Nowon~lv a ~ord of rhe third part, ofthe Efficacie, or (as the Lawyer~ termeir{ at' G o o's IJ?...atiliabition, and fo an end. · WhereinGod willing more abundantly, to lbew to them ri1at chould !it r.' . be partakers ofit rhe flablenetTeofHis counfell, He harh penned it ex- Ofthe it.il; cecding effetl:ually, and indeed flr~ngely to them chat deepely confider MitiO_~ - ofir: which He hath fo done, to the end that thereby fuch poore linners as !hall be partakers ofir,might have llrong confdlation and perfeCt affu: ranee not to waver in the hope which is fer before rhem. . And to i:har end, even for comfort, I will onely point at fmire things in the enditing of it; all expreffing the efficacie of it, in more thancom~ mon tilanner. 1. Theordet, in this; that rJ.\!mifer!tis fl:andeth firfl; and11\.emittuntur[e~ cond. It is Saint CliryfoHome's note ,that it beginrieth inearth,and that hea- sup; ;;;.,tH l>en followeth after; So that, whereas in prayer and it1 other parts ofre. Efili£. Vid~ ligion it is, Sicut in (rilo, fie in terr:t; here it is, Sicut in terra, fie ill Cirlo. i}:',if~i~' .Aterra iudicandi principalem autl,oritatemfumit Cerium. JV..ain IudexJedet ill --·- · terrj_: 'Dominusfequitur fer'Vum, & quicquid bic in inferioribusjudicarit, bo~ iOe in fuperniJ comprobat; faith he; . z. The time: in this, that it is IJ?...emiituntur in the prdent fenfe; there is no delay betwcene, no deferring, or holding in fufpence, but theabfoluti– on pronounced upon earth, IJ?...emittuntur, prefendy they are remitted; tha~ He faith not, hereafter rhey !hall be, but they are already remitted. 3· Themanner: infertingdownecifthetwowords. For, it is fo delivc:? · red byC/,rift, as ifHc: were content, it fhould be accounted their aCl:, and that the.A"poftles were the agents in it, and Him(elfe but the patient, and fuffered it to be done. For, theApoftlespart is delivered in rhe Atl:ive (IJ\e: miferZtu ;) and His ownein the Pafsive (~mittu11tur,Y 4· Thecertainty : which in rhe Identity of the word, in not changing the word, bur keeping the felfe fame in both parr~. For, Cbrift hath not thus endited it, Whofe finnes yewilb or ye pray for, or whore: finnes ye declare to be remitted; but 11>bofe fimus ye remit: ufing no other \'Vord, in the .Apoftln,ibranhe ufcth in·his owne. And to all rhefe, in Sai11i Mat- Mad8. tB:: t/,ewHe adderh His folemne protefiarionofVerily;VerilyJorAmen, .Amm, --,· .-~ that fo it is,and !hall be. And all to certifie us,that He fully meanedi,with elfea: to ratifie in heaven, char is done in earth; to the fure and fiedfall: comfort ofthem, that iliall partake it:
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