Baxter - Houston-Packer Collection BT70 .B397 1675

between'?apats, Armin. Luther. and Calvinitts. áßg quando citra opera quis ob id tantum rod credat in Chriflum qui juflil£- tat impium,jrrfltfrcattonem adeptus eft, dam fola fides Jua di ad juflaftca- tionem imputatur. Ecce jam hic audu cui jam fides ad juflitiam impu- tatrar; eiviz. qui non aperatur fed creditin earn qui juflifcat impium p- h' fide. Et fol. G. paffim. & H. Per jalem in ilium fic expurgaremur, ut ille nuora peccata ferret , nos ejus juflitiam affequeremur: Non dicit faltan faaffe illarn Peccatorem , & nos pallor per ilium, fed ilium Peccatum, s. nos 3uflitiam Dei : See the reft 'Nec eft ut quifquam fecum hafitet núna pro fuis peewit ChriJlus reipfiam tradiderit : Immo credat , b Jecurus fit ad eorum fe catalogum pertinere pro quorum peccata chriflus femetipfum dónavit : .Nam f iud non crediderit, plane fejunelus eft ab earum confortio: fi- des enim ea res di, qua nos agglutinanaur itaChro, ut meritorum ejes falci famus participes : d- per hunt confutati fumes una cum eo ftlii Dei punter É:r coharedes fol. I. Hoctu quifquisespeccatorperfuafifmurn habeas, quod f refpueris ac in Chrifium conflanter credideris, jam Chriflum induifli, jam ejos fpiritu donates es , jam dengue communem cum illo patrem nar,7us es See the refi. Et fol. I. 5. Nam fatisfaciente pro nobis hoc potentifsimo fanguine , quotgaot in Chriflum credit/ma ápec- catis omnibus abluimur juflifcanaur, infiti Chrifto, acque in unity; cum ipfo ferruminati, fil ut omnia mala noflra per ipfum deleta fine, bona vero ipfius can/ia nobis effecia fiat communia : Is not this high enough Fol. K. L. Is corde accedit quern veteris vita pamitet . ere fides in Chriftum una cum refpiJcentit te juftificat ab amni peccato. a Fol. M. Gratis confertur nobù afta redemptia ; non unii meritis no- firm Namgaie ante quodvis Meritumjufli conflituimur, nimirum ut inde prodeant opera naftra fulfil : hunt atoque opera noftra jufla per juflitiam fidea Qgofqua igitur peccatar fuerte ( nihil morar quit quantaque b pant gravia peccata tua fuertnt ) ft teipfum vere con- verteris ad Deum, teque ipfum in ejus mifericordiam totem projecerte3 credens fefum Chriftumpro te mortuum, jam baudduke primam iftain 7uflifcationem adeptus es. Sed cave te fallar, te converfum ftmulans quumnon integre convertaris. Is guidon integre convertitur , qui toto cordepeccatis renunciat, fiduciampleat foam collocans inDeo What think you of all this t Do you differ from it t L. I will not be fo malignant as to difown the truth, becaufe a Papift fpeaketh it: But All you fhall give me leave to believe that fomany Pro- teftants would never have [aid fo mach againft their Dottrine in this point, if they had indeed held what thefe words impart, which are as much as anyProteftant hereinfaith. Andyou your Pelfin your Confeffi- on cite abundance of them fpeaking for mans Merits. R. 1.1 cited them as ufrng commonly the term [ Merit] which I told you I had rather (becaufe of mens mifunderftanding) were difufed, fo we could agreeof forre fitter faferword. a. And I told you that one Ramassi foolifhly pleadeth for Merit in point ofCommutative fuflice, which the moft reject. 3. And I told you, that the paltry phrafe of Merit [ex proportion operam] is ufed by forre, and rejected by others: And forre that ufe it, it's like, have an unfound meaning in it, and others meanbut that different degrees ofGlory or Reward (hall be given according to dif- fer,al, degrees of holines, which Proteflants approve. Is at. as I juftifie thofe Protejiants who reprehend the unfound afferri one

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