Baxter - Houston-Packer Collection BT763 .B35 1655

('P; ) to the Regenerate neceffary to falvation or juflification, if by neceffary, we mean , neceffary under the reafon of'a meritori- ous caufe. Conclu. 5. Some good Works arenecehary to Justification as Conditions concurrent or fore- going, though they be not ne- ceffary as efficient or meritori- ous caufes. In thefegood Works, I rec- kon thofe internal ones which with God, are of great mo- ment, though they be_not ap- parent to the eyes of men ; ras to grieve for fin, to deteft nn, humbly to fubjed ones felf to God, to fly to Gods mercy, to fix our hope in Chrift the Me- diator, to refolve upon a new life, and other fuch like. For Gods mercy juitifieth not flocks that is, fuch as do no- thing ; nor horfes and mules,, that is, fuch as kick againft it Ant renatis ad falutem ant Yu- fl.ficationem necefaria , fi per neceffaria, intelligarmes fob rk- tione caufa Meritoria nece a- ria. Conch5. Bona Vicedano opera _runt necefaria ad juflificatio- nem,mt Conditiones concurrentes vel percurfOria,licet nonlint "ne, celaria ut cassia efficientes ant Meritoria. In hifcebonis operant numero interna qua apud Deam rnagni mornenti ;runt, quamvis iss hominum ocular non incurrant ; utpote dokre de peccato, detellari peccaturn, humiliter fe Deofa& jicere ad Dei mfericordiam c-nfUgere, in Chriflo A4ediatore Ma) jigere,nova vita propofitutn aliaque Confimilia. enim tnifericordia nonjuflifl- catflipites, hoc efi,nihil agentes ; neque equos 0. mutat , hoc ell. recalcitrantes, 0- libidinibusfuis obfiinate adharefeentes : fed ho- and obftinately adhere to their mines , eoidemque cornpunFlos fi contrito, ac verbi fpirituf- luils:but men,and thole pricked que and contrite,and fuch as follow cluHum fequen- the conduit ofthe Word and Spirit of God. Conclu. 6. Bona opera cunt CONCle, 6 God Works are neceffaria ad igflifica.rioni.4 neceffary to the retaining and turn Retinendum Confervan- conferving the itate of Tuitifi- turn ; on ut Caufa, qua per fe cation 3 N or as caufcs , which efficiant aut mereantur bane- con, of themfelves effeci or merit fervationern ; fel zit Media lip, this corifervation: but as means Conditiones f e qtsibus Desq or Conditions , Without which non vult jlujititicationi4 grati- God will not confervegrthce aam T t tes.

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