Baxter - Houston-Packer Collection BT763 .B35 1655

(36-a ) Zanditus. 19 Anchius in very many places faith more for works then ever I did. On i lob. z. Loco de Remif. 6)0. 6. On what Conditions fin is forgiven ; he {hews that it is not forgiven but on thefe three conditions. I.True conftant repentance.2.Con- feffion 3. Forgving others ; and excellently anfwereth their Objeation who fay, Remiffion is not free if it have all there Conditions. I do not tranfcribe the words becaufe they are long, and becaufe I would have theReader perufe them at large in the Author. A lfo he often faith that Works flail juftifie our Faith in judge- ment, f as molt of our Divines do.) And then they muff needs juftifie the perfon, when the Accufation is, that he is an Unbelie- ver or an Hypocrite ; Or when the cafe is, Whether he have that true Faithwhich will prove his Right in Chrift. The Iuftification of the Caufe is the luftification of the perfon. T Om. 8. jug. 787. loc. de fidei [ Opera necef- jariafont. I. Ad7opificationem fidei carat); Deo, &c. 2. Necef. [ariafunt adConfecutionem v-- ta teterna, non tanquam Caufa mtritoria , fed tanquam neceffa- via viaper qua! Ordinarie Deus eleUos fain: ad poffidendam vi- tam, &c.Mat. 25. Venite Bene. dilli, &c. q. d. Opera pietati4 quafeciflis Efecerunt,non qui- dem to vobis parata fit &donata vita aterna &c. fed Effecerunt & Caufa fuerunt us nom:- ingre- diamini adpoffidenduto Regnstm Ave VOrks are neceffary, v 1. To juftifieFaithbe- fore God, &c. 2.1-hey are ne- ceffary to the obtainingeternal Life ; not as meritorious caufes, but as neceffary wayes by which God ordinarily brings his Elea to poffefs life, &c. Mat. 25, Come ye bleffed,&c. The Works of piety,which you have done,did not indeed effect that life eternal was prepared for you and given, &c. But they did effect and were Collis that younow may enter to pof- fefs the Kingdom before pre- pared

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