( 327 ) canditionis Wet ration's enedii ad affequendum ifind quad fub conditione nebi s proponrtur obti- nendum.] ibid. pag. 54. a contra Gre- [Immo inquam non alia ratione fides eft medium quoin; quia Deus conflituit per fidem homines falvos facere, nec fine fide quenquam ex adultis facere. Nam ejtaimodi medium non eft medium niji expradiEa ordina- tione Dei. Nammedium vox eft commanioris fignification quam conditio. Non omne medium eft conditio, licet ammo conditio fit medium. Sed medium ad aliquid obtinendum ex contrabits velfa- dere, illad demum ell conditio. Hupufmodi autem medium con- ffitisere penes contrahentem eft ; prafertino very penes Inperiorern cam inferioreflipulantem.Zotare cum Dea confultom fuerit non nfi per fiacno bovines falvos ft- cere, & vere- credentes adunum omnes}calves facere, ex ifta Dei conflitutione fit ut fides evadat medium ad[dram.] Et ib. parr. 3 pag. 318, [(...idcaufa: falatu quad attinet, non mod?' fides, fed d- reliptftentia etiam 2tT bona opera, utfruduspnitentiadigni,exor- dinatitme Del antegrediuntur falutem in adultis,id tanquam catefa ; nonguidonmeritoria, ut net fides in Cbrifluni risofmodi the nature ofa means to thear tainingof that which is under a condition propounded to us to be obtained.] [Yea, I fay, that faith is on no other account, a means,then becaufe God hath appointed fave men by faith , and to fave none at age without faith. For fuch kind of means is no means but by Divine Ordina. tion. For the word Means,is of more common (or large) fig- nification then the word condi- tion. For every means is not a - condition, though every con- dition be a means. But a means ofobtaining fomewhat by on- tray or ovenant , that is a condition, And to co-Ail-ate fuch a means, is in the power of the Contraccior efpecially in the power of a fuperior ftipula, tingwith an inferior. Where, fore when God faw it meet not to fave men but by faith, and to laveall true believers ; from that conilitution of God it is that faith becomes a means of Salvation As for the caufes of Salvati- on, not only faith, but alfo re- pentance and good works as fruits worthy repentance do by Gods ordination go before Sal- vation in the adult, and that as caufes ; Not indeed Meritori ous, as neither is faith in Chrill fuch a caufe ., but as prepara.
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