Jiffi~t/IC~ is thereJ a~ ,chey not.~o~li eq.uaJl,.,b9th. alike infit~~te? Wily is HIS deaGh allowed folely fttRicJent [(') p~t away u.nne) a~d whyIs hot His lif.Mo be allowed ·hke folelycfuffictenf to bnng us cd life! If iri chat, ~hc:;. Meffed Saints themfdves (were,.their fuffedngs never fd great, y~a, though they endured·never fo cruell martyrdome) if all chof"e could '.not ferve eo fatisfie-Gon's jullke:for their finnes, but itis the death of'C HR 1 s:r mull deliver ~hem; is it not the very fame reafon , chai: were their merits never fo many, and their life never fo holy, ye~ .chat by them, chey'(!ould riot, nor we cannQt challenge the reward; but it is che./i/e and obediepie of C H R 1 s T chat dejuftitiamull procure it, for. us all '? for fure it is, that Finiti ad infinittlm 1111Ua eft proportio. Efpecially; jfwe adde hereunto that as it cannot be denied but tobe finite, fo with. all, that the Auncient Fathers feeme further to bee but meanly conceip~ • ted of it; reckoning it not to be{Hll, but de{eBiw; riot pure, but deft~ led; and if it be judged by the jull fudge; 'Destriae, orcum deftriBione examinu (they be Saint Gregories and Saint !J3emards words) indeed, no rigbteoufnejfo a~ all. . . . Notfuil, butdefeEliW; Sofaith Saint Augustine: Neque totam, ne- .lfue plenam, irz hac "Vita, juftitiamnos habere, confitendum nobu eft. Jf nei· eher whole, but a pare; nor full, but wanting; ehen unperfeCl: and de~ feWw_ Now, which mull be weighed in Gons ballance, mull not be found mintU 1>4bms ;·;md this is minus babens, faithSaint !i3ernar.l in ex•. prelfe termes. .. Not pure, but defiled. Nojlra reEia forfaiz,Jed non pura justitia (faith . $ernard) nififort'e meliores jumus qr>ampatres noflri,qtlorumilla "VOX, Omnes juftiti~ noftr.eJicutpanniu menftruat& : Mala noftra, puramala; 'Bona noftra pura nequaquam, (faithGregory.) Now "''J'".:v~·y•" m<l ""'"r·~~'"' (faith S: Cbryfostome:) Necelfary it is,that cherigf!ieoufizejfe,that fhall prefent it felfe there, have not aIpot in it. As for ours (as Pope Adriau the fixth fai<j) the cafe llandeth thus, that StillamJU quotidieJuper telainjuftiti.e noftr£,Iaxiem concupifcmti£noftrtt, and fo it is defiled. . St ,, ·' And !all: of all, ifit be llraightly examined indeed rio righteoulrielfe. . . , San8i )lire omni meritum 'Viti11m eft;Ji ab .tEtenro arbitro diflriBe ]Udicetur. Mor.g. 1 i, And againe: ~oujquepama corrHptionu aftringimur, "Veram munditiam 1 nequaquam apprebendimru. And, Onmu bumana (uftitia jnfuftitia ejJe in1•e– nir.tur, Ji deflriBe judicetur i.niufta in'Vmietur omnis justitia noflra. And duis we fee, the conceipt, thefe Fathers have, ofour rigiJteoufrleDe inh.e- Mor.sf.i~ ,·etzt: That if it be dealt with ac(lording to rigbteoufne/fe, in illo'examine ctiam juftorum "Vita Jt<cwmbet, in that examination it will finke and cannot lland before it. Yea, they thenifdves, ofthe Church of!J(ome alfo, upon better examination, have begunne to cry it downe : and I doubt not, but the longer and futther they looke into it, the eafrer accompt they ,. will make ofit. · Difp.S. _. ' Gregory de Valentia, after along debating the rrtatter, thus tefolveth : Q!dt. 6 ·P·4 . ihat
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