D irjrcator faith more then ever I did, inafcribing an efficiency to Works efpecially of the Continuance and J ncreafe of Gods Love and Favour, as on e.../S. 1 0. 3 5. he doth. Though as to the Poffeflion of form part of falvation, it is true : Yet here the Lutherans running into the extream fince the Flaccian Sedu- dion, blame the Calvinifts, as one of the moft Learned and Mo- derate of them doth blame Pifeator.himfelf ; I mean Chr. Pelar gas in Math. 5 . p. 67. fpeaking of the Beatitudes, he faith that they are from the fruits and figns of Gods children, Non eastern el Caufis veris & adjunais,luernadmodam Pifcator exiflimat, Caufas Beatitadina tradi procreantes ; quarum almalint hominid beandi,&c. Gum tamen a nobisnulla poifit procreari Beatitude. If fcator couldnot pleee, nor efcape cenfure as beingnot ril0d enough in this point: why thould I exped to fpeed better,or think much,if every man fpeakaccording to the complexion of his brain or fpleen ? Beta, 17 .BEza Annot.inrit,3.7.Vt fiedti,&e.Iva ,aitis4. lafi-tficationid Nornen large accipio, ita ut compleCia, tur Quicquid a Chrifto Con- fequimur tam per lrnputatio- nem tam perfpiritns in nobis fanatficanta efficaciam ; ut g- ross c Fitt ideg perfedi inte- gri in eo. Sic quoque accipitur j-riflificandi Verbum, Rom. 8.-30. Idem in Rom, 5. T. Shewing how Faith juftifieth, Nempe ex fide ut Ingramento five nepie quatenas eft qualitas nobis per dei gratiams infita,nequeex ipfi- ai 3.7. That being AP- fled by his Grace ) &c. I take the word Eiuitification largely, fo as it cosiprehendeth whatfOever we obtain from Chrifi, both by Imputation , and by theefficacy of the fan- difying Spirit within us ; that wemay be perfed and entire in him. So alto is the word Iuffification] taken Rom. 8. 30. ( whom he called, them he afisfied) Rom. 5. a . by Faith as an Inftrument ; that is, not as a quality put into us by Grace , nor by theworkof that qua li- ty
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