264 Of the difference about mans Merits Y L. I bad rather they did differ lefs, and if it be fo, I had rather know it than not ; But I would not hear that it is ro, when it is not. R. Takeheed that your heart deceive younot, and that you be not averfe to know the truth, left it fhould crofs your own and other mens former cenfures. . eft. a. If it prove true, that the difference is lefs than moil take it.- to be, is he that falfly aggravateth it to the procuring of unjuftodium, ór he that truly 'openeth and extenuateth it , the more to be commended or approved e L. If you have the Truth on your fade, no doubt but you do well, be- camp Love andPeace elf) are onyour fide, and our fault is great that quarrel With. you, R. Quell. 3. Do you think it is juftice in any Paps to charge the crude unfound expreflions of particular Writers, on the Proteftant party as their Dottrine r ( as Mr. Parker, Mr. Patrick, Mr. Sherlock are blamed for doing by the Non-corformJs : ) or for us to do the fame by them L. No : but where their Doctors agree, we may gofurther. R. Q«;4. Do you think that thebare name ofmerit, is caufe enough to accule any of falfe Dottrine, who meaneth by it nothing that is un- found,: or that the name is reafon enough for sharp accufationsof fuck men L. I am willing to difference the. controverfie de nomine from that de re, and not to make a greater matter ofaname than there is renfe : But yet, ill names do tend to introduce ill Doctrines. R. Qeft. 5. Do you hold that well doing hath any Reward from God L. It is not vain: It hath that bleffing freely given which is improj perly called a Reward. R. It is figuratively called wages: And yet this is the commonefi Scri- pture title, ( and cannot youbear with Gods Wordt ) But it is not im- properly called Premium a Reward : that is, A benefit given to one for well doing. Indeed &with the newAtheiftical Philofophers, you take God but for a Phyjcal Motor, and his Government, andLaws, andJudge- ment to be all but motion, improperly and opularly fo named, then you may fay the fame of his Rewards and Punifbments. L. well: you know thatProtettants deny not Reward. R. Qgefi. 6. Is not Reward formallyRelated to fame well doing as the moral aptitude of theReceiver ? L. Tes : it is fuch a Relation formally. R..f ueft. y. Are not they then of your judgement as to theMatter, who hold Merit in no other fenfe, than as iris .[ Rewardable well - doing], or Ca Moral aptitudefor Reward?] L. I deny not that with firth I diffir but in the Name. R..juçft. 8. Do not you°know that it is the common ufage of the, word, in Civil and Ecclefiaftical Writers, to take Meritum and Premium fo far for Relatives, as that omne Premium eft emeriti premium ; though, omne meritum be not Premii mritum. Reward and Rewardablenefsare thus meant as related. It's true that Meritum is fometime taken Idsproperly for anyDuenefs';. as a man is faid toMerit his Fathers Legacie, that is, hath right toit: fometimes it is taken for any MoralCongruity: fometimes in malampar- tem for Commerit of punìfhment : and fometimes for a faultit felf. As calvin,noterh on the word. But Ìäl1 every Reward is formally related to Merit or Rewardablenefs. L. Brit 1,
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