fignificarevidetur merttutn, vel contradiffionern involvere,&c. Read further, and fpecially his Tables , pag.9 6 _7.9_ 6g _ .9_ 9. and you will fee that he faith as much as ever I did, and ex.. poundeth the Papifts Dotirine of Merits far more favorably and complyingly. 3 69) patio, of Contra& The Apo- logie of the Augtoftane Confef- fion admitteth fuch a thing in ref,-,e61 of good works in Gods children,to whO God bath pro- mifed rewards. Though others do not undefervedly wholly re- jed the wordMerit, becaufe of its ambiguity, and great abufe. There is another Merit which they call ofcongruity : But it either feemeth not to fignifie any Merit at all, or to involve a Contradiftion. j See the reft 21 Earned Ludovicus Cro. cius in Syntagm. lib. 4. cap. 7. pay. 1223. C 2, Fides etiam "'via 7stfitficat quatentis notat obedientiarn quondam ex- peffantem promiffionem ut do- numgratuitum,quomodo forma- liter quidem confifkit in applica- tione promiffionm ; porn tamen pracedunt difPofitiones ad hunt ippon fidei atium ( de quibus vide Paraton lib. I o. de Juftif.contra Bellar.cap. 3 . ) er fequuntter frutius Vndeplures virtutes vel atlus cum antece- dentes turn confequentes canna- tat, & opponitur illi obedientia qua non expetiat promffionem ranquatn donstm omnino gratui- tuno, u 2 /ALib faith alone Tuftifi- Ldov.Cro. e us. eth, as it noteth a cerm twin obedience expefting the promife as a ftee gift, as formal- ly it confifteth in the applicati- on of the promife, which yet fome difpolitions to this very aft of faith do precede , ( of which fee Pareses. lib. I o de juji. cant. 73ellarm.) and fruits do follow: So that it connoteth many virtues or as both An- tecedent and Confequent, and is oppofed to that obedience which expeiteth not the pro- mife as a gift wholly free, but as wages propounded on the condition of fome work befides accepting , and due B b b thank-
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