rigl,teou[Hejfe; this, is i:llac; chat one a$ we~l as the other; are in the L&rd, No abatement is to be devifed; the.Name IS ~ot to be mangled or divi. ded, but entirely belongeth to (lnift, full and wliole, and we to call Him byit; IEHOVA IusT!TlA NosTR.A; • We to call Him by it; tpis is orir duty '.firll: and th~t fo to. call .JI; Him by it, as ~yHu iuime. And aname is a no~e'of difl:inttion; :lnd we The c•lt!"l therefore fo to ufe it: To apply i.t to i-lim, and to ndne other \Vhatfo. ~t;·~~. · ever; as the nature of a l'{ame is. The.nature ofall names: · but' chtef. . .. r ' ly of thole, which be titles of honour. For, howfoever we dilpence OurflufJ~ · with others, thole we willn ot in any wife divide with any: Gloriam meam alteri non dabo (faith G0 D by the Prop/,et; which maketh the; . Propl}.et to proteft, he will not meddle with it,) 1'{onnobu Domine; and Efay •1-2:3·; againemorevehemedtly, Non nobis; fed Nomini tuo daglorium. And fuch Pfal;n>.I! is this Name. For, that v«ry place in the New Teftament; where it is faid, that G o o hatb giwn Him aNaine; Wbicb i5 abo)le all names; tl1at l'fa!.z.ro; in His Name all knees fhould bo,iJ, and all tongues conjeffi; thatplace is taken out -of theProphet Efoy, where the very fame is taid,thata/1kneu foa~bow, an~ all tong~~s jha!l acknowledge this liam~; and i:hat thus, by Efay 4f; 2~ faytng, In Ie/Jo)la JUftltttt mu; and fo acknowledgmg co'ticludeth, that . all the whole feed oflfr-ael,as they fhall bejrifcifi~d,lo fhall theyglory in tbe Lord. It.is the very quefl:ion which the' z1pbftle of purpole cloth pro. , pound, Vbi ergoeftgldriatio ttta ! as ifhe fho'tJld admonifh tts; that this Name is given with o;preffe intent, to exclude it from vs; and us from . it. And therefore, in that very place where he faith, he is made wzto ~ Cor-i;3 0 ; 11s from G o o, r.igbteouj11ejfe: To this end (laith hee) hee is fo made; Vt quigloriatur, in Domino gloriet-ur; All which I put you in minde of; to this end, that you may marke, that this nipping at this name of CHRIST; is for no other reafon, but that we may have fome honour our fclves;out (Jf our riglJteoufneffe. · . 'Bellarmine cloth difclofe as much, and doth not flick in plain terme5 to avow it. For, in anf\ver i:o that argument, which is alleaged by us! that after we are acquit of our finnes at this barre, and that onely for ChriH: our onely rigbteoujizejJe; we are received into Goo's favour, and made his Children by adoption, and then have heaven by way of inheritance:He anfweretli direCtly,Their meaning is, not toconteut them• fe\~es With that fing!e title ofiiz!Jeritance; but they meane to Jay claime De l•fllf. , to tt, duplici ittre. That is; not onely titulo ha:reditatu, but jure mercedir s-3, too. And thereof he giveth this reafon; ~on!am 1114f,U bonorifimm eft; habere aliquid ex metito : For, th;tt it is more for their bonortr, to have it bmerit. For,fo (t":tirhhe) CHRIST hadit andcheymufrnotbebehind Him, but goe even as farre as He did: So chat, it feemeth he:~ ~~ ~efolved,thauadmthau they willlefe their honour 1 CH R. i ST mufl part
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