movendo Caufam defirtstli. orris. Conclu. 7. Bona opera losiii- ficestorumfont adfalutem necef- farial neceffitate Orelinis non Cats alitatie; vel pianists,at Via Ordinata advitam xternam,non sat Calif; meritories vita ater. 323 ) properly and of themfelves, by touching the very effect o confervation ; but improperly andby accident , by excluding and removing the caufe of de- ftrn6tion. Conchs. 7. The good Works of the Juftifiedare neceffary to falvation , neceflity of Or- der, not of Caufality : or more plainly , as the way ordinated to everlaiting life not as a meritorious caufe ofeverlafting Life. DE nomine meriti lege antes citata: quibus adde , qua Vern cap. 54.p. 571. 572. Ad nofirorum Theologorum fententiam explicandam jam ac- cedamtss : in quaflatuenda iliud imprimus obfervetis ; V tcsinisse nofirineologi jam abflineant el vocabulo meriti , quo Pares frequenter utuntur, id tamenfa- ciunt, non quad a Patribut fentiantsfed ne Papiflit conftnti- ant, qui dud vocabulum ( toot antiquitate reclamante) infen- furn perniciofum el keret icon% obtorto quafi collo rapuerunt Nam good Tam fubmeriti no- twine intellexe unt,nitnirum opus loominis fidelte renati fieperna- turali konit ate praditum, in or- dine fiepernaturali Deo gratum accepttr-, atque ad pnemia gratifa tam Liu* epuimfount vita OF the name of merit, fee what f citedbefore : to which add cap. 54. p. 57x, 572. We come now to explain the Opinion ofour Divines:where- in obferve efpecially this thing : Though our Divines do now abftain from the word merit which the Fathers frequently ufe,yet they do it,not that they diffent from the Fathers, but left they confent with the Pa- pifts, who againft all antiquity, do violently draw that word to a pernicious and heretical fenfe. For that which the Fathers meant by the word Merit , to wit, the work ofa Believer and regenerate per`on,indued with a fupernatural goodnefs, in fu- pernatural Order, grateful and acceptable to God,and ordina- T t 2 ted
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