Baxter - Houston-Packer Collection BT763 .B35 1655

( 3 53 ) 15. Art. Bucer. Cdog. Ratisb. p. 3 oz. Iufli- ficari fide, qua Itefiificatio pri- ma & vita eft, int erpretatos eft Jacobus per Evocari arnicum Dell hoc eft, condonatu peccatis reconciliara cum Deo , & recipi ab co in Gratiam& amicitiam , qmi anteerat ininoicusDei& flier tree fuflificari outeno ex operibus docuit idem ere quod percipere a `Deopropter bona opera, qua ab co percepit Abraham 0- Rahab, hoc eft, comprobationem, laudern & remunerationem. ag. 3 og. he afferteth a twofold Righteoufnefs, and p. 3 13 ,faith,iraflition hanc incho- atam fentimus ere qrsidem ye- ram &- vivam lullitiam , Dei praclarum eximium donam vitamque nova); in Chrifio hac Iuftitia conflare, omnefqne fan- Hos bac ipfa quoque luftitia lo- ft°, ere & coramDeo & coram hominibus , & propter earn fan- dos quoque a Deo Iuftificari Juftificatione operum , id eft Comprobari eos a Deo Laudari, e Remunerari. pttamen quamlibet bac Ittflitia fit vera ac viva,&fuo etiammode ; tamen non efe ejufmodi, non fieveram,vivam&folidarn, it quifqaam fanUorton freifi- cfiri which is the firit Bucerus. TO be Juftified by Faith cation, and of Life, ?arms in- terpreteth by [to be called the friend of God] that is, fin be- ing forgiven, to be reconciled with God, and be received by him into favour and friendibip, when a man was before an ene- my of God , and child of wrath. But to be juilified by Works,he teacheth is the fame, as to receieve ofGod for good Works that which Abhabarn and Rabab received ofhirn,that is, Approbation , Praife and Reward. Pag. 318. he faith , [ We Judge that this inchoate righte- oufnefs is indeed a true and lively righteoufnefs, an excel- lent and eminent gift of God, and that our new life in Chrift confiftethof this righteoufnefs, and that all the Saints alfo are righteous by this very righte- oufnefs, both before God and before men; and that for it alfo the Saints are juitified by the juftification of Works, that is, they are approved of God , Praifed and Rewarded. Yet though this righteoufnefis be true and lively , and juftifie in its manner, it is not fuck , or fo Z z true,

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