t 3 74") ted by the Promife of the rnoft bountiful God, to thegracious Rewards of this life and that to come,All this our Divines have alwayes granted. We do there- fore fight againil, not the bare name of Merit , a harrulefs fenfe frequentlyufed of old by the Fathers, but the proud and filfe opinionof Merit of Con- dignity, brought lately by the Papircs into the Church of God.See &seer in Co/log Ratif. p. 565. Chemnit. Exam. Conc. Trid. in 4 qu. of good Works, p, IS5. Calvin. infaitut.l. 3. c. t 7. Sed. 3. vine exx mum' ficentirunss Dei promOone,ordiJatism, id totUm J firi (imper concefrerunt.Oppu= gnaM114 igitor nonnudum nomen meriti innoxiofinfie it Patribus olimfrequentatum,fedfoperbam &falfammeriticondiginiOpinia7 nem,.01 Ec- clefiats; Dei ;ntroduClam. Yid. Bacer. inColloy. Raul: p. 567. Chemnit. Exam. Conc. Fid. in q. q. de banis °per. p. 185. Cal- vin. Inflittet. 1. 3. c. 17, . 3. Dem,cap.32. p.,4to. oslem-' per Concersinssis.cona , tifcatio;'is v fiudipm cations, necelariurn etre ad fa- latem sst Conditionem anteceden- tem ; ,,Mortificationis autem a-' lists qua no-fier dicitur, no _ Pst,caufa requlripirproprie fed ut casslafinequa non q.)el re- mavens prebibens quibus ratio care litatt irnproprie tribuitnr. Non enim ipfnm effet-lum antur ant attingunt tales Cauca, fedfolsonmodoabquid pravium, ass: connexumcum t fectlo. E E ever granted that an endeavour of morti fication and Itudy of fandifica- tion are neceffary to falvation, as an Antecedent Condition but the ail of mortification as it is Paid to be ours is not re- quired as a caufe properly fa called, but as a Cassia fine qua non., or removing that which prohibit's, to which the reafoni of caufality is but improperly given. For filch caufes do not reach or caufe the effe& it felf, but only fome thing previous or connexed with the effeft. 'Pas:
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