PAPAL HERESIES CAUSELESS CURSINGS. 273 That many truths are uncharitably backed with curses; which dis- parages them, seeing a man may err pardonably: HoXX& yap erraío¡.cev eíravre5, `4 In many things we offend all,"James iii. 2. For instance, what needwas thereof defining[concupiscence], what need of cursing those who think concupiscence " to be truly and pro- perly sin," upon St Paul's authority calling it so ?1 [What need of cursing those who say] that "Adam, presently upon his transgression, lost the sanctityand righteousness in which he was constituted ? "' What need of cursing those who say that men are justified " by the sole remission of sins," according to St Paul's notion and use of the word "justification? "' What need of cursing those who say the " grace of God, bywhich we are justified, is only the favour of God," whereas it is plain enough that " God's grace" there in St Paul doth signify nothing else, ap- plied to that case?' Or [those who say] that faith is " nothing else but a reliance on God's mercy, remitting sins for Christ," seeing it is plain that St Paul doth by "faith" chiefly mean the belief of that principal point of the gospel? Or [those who say] that good works " do not cause an increase of justification,"e seeing St Paul excludes justification by works, and it is a free work of God, incapable of degrees? Or [those who say] that after remission of sin in justification, " no obligation of temporal punishment remains? "' Or [those who say] that a man cannot " by his works merit in- crease of grace, and glory, and eternal life" (sess. vi. can. 32), seeing a man is not to be blamedwho dislikes the use of so saucy a word, which divers good men have disclaimed? What need of cursing those who do not take the sacraments to be "precisely seven?" or who conceive that some one of their seven may not be " truly and properly" a sacrament,' seeing the word " sacrament" is ambiguous, and by the fathers applied to divers others things, and defined generally by St Augustine, signum rei sacrm, and that beforePeter Lombard ever mentioned that number? I Sess. v. can. 6; Rom. vii. I CummandatumDei inparadiso fuisset transgressus, statini sanctitatem et justitiam in qua constitutes fuerat amisisse.Secs. v. can. 1. s Sess. vi. can. 11. 4 Sess. vi. can. 11. Aut etiam gratiam qua justificamur esse tantum favorem Dei. 6 Sess. vi. can. 12. Sess. vi. can. 24. Non autem ipsius augendal causam, &c. 7 Ut nullus remaneat reatus pcenn temporalis exoivenda, &c.Sess. vi. can. 30; Sess. xiv. de Pcenit., can. 15. s De sacramentis. Si quis dixerit ... esse plura vel paucioraquam septem.Sess. vii. can. 1.
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