(333) Alfo in his Harm. on Ltsio 16. 1. [Butanother end ought to be propounded by us, then that by paying a price of re- demption, we may efcape Gods Judgement : viz. that our libe- rality well and holily placed, may bridle our fuperfluous ex- pences, &c. and then that our humanity towards our brethren may provoke Gods mercy to us. [He teacheth whatby boun- tifully laying out, we get favor with God, who bath promifed to be merciful! to the merci- full and humane, &c. I he Lord therefore refpefteth not the perfons, * but the work it felf that our bounty, though it may light upon unthankful men,may anfwer for us before God. ( Yea on Gen. 15.6. Calvin faith that faith is not the effici. mate, non ent, but the formal caufe ofour PrItar12$ qua cgctens dice- righteoufnefs , which is more then I will fay. ) Alfo hemakes tG(e'n.75.6. hope the Juftifying aft. !dem Harmon. Evang. Luca6.i. CSed alias finis nobs propofitsss effe debet, quks; ut fo- luto pretio effagia- mpg Deljudicium : viz. pt. Itbe- ralitas beme locata fu- perfluas impenfas frenet , deinde ut nofira ergs; fratres humanitas Dei miferecordiam in nosprovocet.] ibid. Ver. 9. [Benigne ero. gando, favorem apedDom ac- quiri docet, qui fe mirerecordi- bia humanis viciffirn mifere- cordem forepromifit, &c. Re- l'plcit ergo domissus non adper- fonas, fedad opus ipftsm,ut bene- ficentianofira,etiamfrinhomines ingratos inciderit , noble maw Deo refpondeat.] * Yax. to whoa* we give. Fidem licit efe luflitia confirm for. iDem in Genef. is. 6. Deni nonminoris ffisporis qadm im- pudentiaeft, quum hoc ill, imps- Pawnfuifedicitur in hfiitiarn, alisem finfum comminifci qtaiim pionAbraha fisiffe pro jtsfiltia aped Dews. Vid, ultr, Laftly, it is no lefs flupidity then impudency when this is faid to be imputed to him for righteoufnefs , to imagine arty other fenfe, then that Abra.; hams faith was (taken)for teoufnefs withGod. . its-3 Hence
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