Baxter - Houston-Packer Collection BT763 .B35 1655

am in &mina's., vare. Namuti nemo recipit luffifi- cationern illam generalem qua liberat Reatu omnium prace. dentittrnpeccatorum,nifi concur- rente peenitentiki, fide, nova vita propofito,aliifque ejufdern generic atlionibus:itanemoretinetflaturn Reatu liberumrefpetiopeccato- rumConfiquentimm,nifimedian taws iifdem adionibut,Credendi in `Deem , invocandi eum, morttficandi carnem,aftidtte pee- nitendi, dolendi de peccatie af- f; ue adroiltif. Ratio cur ex par- te nofira ne,ceffarib requirantur bac omnia illa eft : uod bac able non poffint perpeth4 ,ut non adeffe inciptant illorum oppolita, quapugnant atm natura jug - ficati.-Sicut ergoadconfervan- dam vitam naturalem necefartb requiritur, ut quidftudioji. vitet tgnem, aquas, practpitia, vene- na,reliquaquequa falutena car- port perirnunt; fic adconfervan- damvitam ffiritualem neceia- r4> requiritur, sat pis vitet in- credulitatem impcenitentiam cateraque animarurn faint, in- fefta e inimica, qua vitari non poiront,nifi exerceantur aFt.)ones oppofita 6- contwia. Ha autem ailiones non Confervant vitam gratiapropr4 & per fe, attin- lend° ipfum effeaters Co:Ifer- vationis, fed improprie & per accidens ext.Wend°, & re- movmda ( 322) confer- grace of Iullification in men. For as tic) man receiveth that general luftification which dif- chargeth from the guilt of all foregoing fins.-but on the con- currence of Repentance,Faith a purpofe of a new life , and other actions of the fame kind; fo no man retaincrh a Rate free from guilt in relpeet of follow- ing fins, but by means of the fame actions of believing, in God, calling on God, mortify- ing the flefh , daily repentiig and forrowing for fins daily committed. The reafon why all thefe are required on our part, is this Becaufe thefe cannot be !till abfent , but their oppo- fites will be prefent , which are contrary to the nature ofa lu- ftified man. ----- As there- fore to the confervation of na- tural life it is neceffarily requi- red, that a man carefully avoid fire, water, precipices, poifons and other things deftrudive to the healthof the body ; fo to the conferving of fpiritual life, it is neceffarily required thata man avoid Incredullty,linpeni- tency,and other things that are deftrudive and contrary to the falvation of fouls ; which can- not be avoided unlefs the op- pofire andcontrary actions be exercifed. And thefeadions do not conferve the life. of Grace properly

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