(390 come arePrecedent, others Confequent. I call thofe Precedent, which caufe the Contrad, exformula, do ut des; As when a man felleth Land for a certain fumme of money. So in contracting matrimony, there is a mutual Donation of Bodies. Such Condi- tions as thefe do not only by the defect of them deftroy ( or re- fcind) the contra& but alfo do conftitute (or lay) the founda- tionof it, and as I may fay, the effence. But the Confequent are added to the Precedent as depending on them. They are truly mutual between both parties but they oblige but one party on ly ; fo that becaufe of them the other is bound to do no more (or is no further obliged.) As if one, upon the givingor felling of Land, do impofe an annual Penfion of money to be diftribu- ted to the poor. So daily in contradingmarriages, the Conditi an of a Dowry is added. Now finch kind of Conditionsas thefe are wont to make void the contra& by their abfence, but yet not to effe& the contract ; yea unlefs the fale were already full and perfeet, there wouldbeno yearly Penfion (or Payment) of mo- ney : And before this can be, it is requifite that the buyer have not only the right of Propriety, but alto that he have taken pof- fefsion of the Land, that is, that the feller have performed his part. Thus the Law of Worksexadeth the fulfilling of the Law, as the Antecedent Condition, without which not only cannot man have poffefsion of life eternal, but not fo much as. Right to life eternal. But in this fenfe of a Condition , the Law of Faith admitteth not Works : but only in the other : that is, that by vet- rue of the life already given becaufe of Faith, Works fhould be neceffary ' fo that he that performeth (or exhibiteth) no Works, fhould lofe (or fail from) all that Right which he had, or feemed tohave, by external Vocation : though otherwife Works are not thecaufe of giving life. T Can fcarce exprefs my own thoughts more clearly then Cha-- "- rater here doth, as to the fenfe. His Antecedent Conditions are thofe that are neceffary to the very being of the Contra& , or Reception of Right and Poffeffion. His Confequent Condi- tions are filch as are to be performed after Contra , Propriety, and Poffeftion ; ,hut yet fuch , as if they are not performed the.
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