In CH a Is Ts ~me. moll by any D~mati!l of them all. Yet in the eyes of Go o, Cum a(ex jr~ffusjederit in folio (eh& very words he-alledgeth) he faith plainely, hi: dare not juR:ifie himfelfe; but rather waited for the overHowing bounty OfHis grace,than would abide the fevereexaminarion ofHis judgement. And 'Bemard (in his CC CX. Epiflle, the very laA: he wrote a little be– fore his death, eo the Abbot of Chartres) concludeth he not, Calc.meum ..Vacuum meritis curate munire precibtu ?Abandoneth he not then, hisju. jlitia a Vomino,and confelfethlhis beele (meaning the end ofhis life) is bare ofall merits, and defireth to have it, by prayers commended to Ieho"Va jiiflitia noflra. Thus doe theFathers conceive ofit. ':!ea, the very Sc/;oolemen themfe!ves, take them from their Qgefii~ 79 ons, Qgodlibets and Comments on the Sentences, let them be in their Jo!iloquies, meditations, or de'votions,and fpecially in direCting how to deale Anjdmin~ with men in theirla!l: agony, quandoludex prtt foribus eft; then takeAn- urrogat. fil k (i) k G .r; Id . ."fh n' d Ll BonavcntHrJ e me, ta e:oonaventure, ta ·e er 1 o1z, you wou not WI to n e e !O- inBrcvilo- }1abjuftitia noftrabetter, or more pregnantly ackn~wledged, than in them quio.. - you fhall finde it. But this is by vertue ofthi.sEcce rt?.Jx faciet judicium; ~~:. one ofwhofe fight when we be, we may fall into a phanfie, or (as the · Prophet faith) we may have adreame oflltffitianoftra a Iehavah. But, framing our felvesas before Him,we fhallfee,i.t !s not th~t r~h- Verfe .r;; teoujizejfe, will confill there : but wemull come to IttSittza noftra ui Ieho- "Va/;. It is the only way, how to fettle the flare ofthis controverfie aright : and without this, we may well miffe ofthe interpretation of this N..,ame. And this; they that doe not, or will not (now) conceive, the Prophettelleth them after, at the XX. Ver!e, quod in noviflimo intelligetis plane, at the end they £11al1 underfiand, whether they will or no. And indeed, to doe them no wrong, it is true,that.at this Iudgenieilt~ feat, [o farre as it ~oncerneth the fati~faCl:ion for finne, and our efcaping frorri eternall death, the Church of !Jtome taketh this Name aright ; and that terme; which a great vvhi~e feemed hadh unto i:heni' now they finde no fuch abfurditie in it: That [/;rifts rigMeoufnej]e andmerits are . imputed to us• .So faith IJ3ellarmine : Et boc inodo non ejfet abfurdum,fi quis Deluflifi. 2J. diceret, nobis imputari Q;rifli juflitiam& merita, cum nobis donentur & ap• •o.z.u. plicentur, ac fi nos ipfi V eoJatisfecijfemus. And againe, Soltio CHR 1sTus pro foluti: noftr~ Jatisfacere potuit, & reipp ex juflitiafatisfecit, & ilia fotisfaElio nobis donatur, & applicatur, & noftra reputatur, cum Veo reconcilia.' mur & jurtificamur. So faith Stapleton, Ilia fane iuflitia, qtta fatisfecit pro nobis, per commu1zicationem fie noffra eft, tit perinde nobis imputetur, ai: fi nos ipfi Jiifficienter Jatisfecimus: iil as full ter~es, as onewouldwiili. '])tl~ftifi.-j; So that, this point is meetly well cleered now. Thus they underfiand 'I• this Narhe in chat part oi rig/;teoujneJ/e, which is Jatisfa8ory for punifhment; and there they fay with us (as we, with Efay) in Iehovah Iitrti~ tia noftra. But in the fofitive jt~Siice, or that parttherof,which is meritoriom for re: ward;
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