( 405 ) On Gen, 17. p...113o. The fahfiance of the Covenant ljeth in theprornife offree Reconciliation, Righteoofnefs and Life eter- nal, by andfor Chrip freely to begiven, andM the 7-Op:dation ofour moral obedienceandg ratitude. Idem Bellarm.Caffigat. de Igftif 1. I. C. 12. p. 193. [As to the aas of the year. 34o. it is true indeed, that between the feven Reconcilers:of thedoarine of the Papitis and Proteaants it was a6led and judged, that for the fake of the publike tranquillity, it 11-mulct-not be taught [chat faith alone juttifieth] but the word Along should be omitted ,becaufe the Papitis {aid that it bred fcandal to the people,and made men negligent about goodworks.] Idem 5. c, 3. p. 1245, 1.246. But 2. Let us und et-- fkand thaeAccording to Work!, fignifieth an Analogy or meafure of good Works and of evil,as irrnay fitly be underftood,andwe alb have ellwhere interpreted. There is then an .Ambiguity in the word, Analogy,orproportion,and we mutt ditlinguith.between a Preport- on Cautal,meritorious,and a proportion Cor.ditional.A Caural Me ritorious Proportion of works and reward is when greater or letter works are the Cause or merit of a greater or letter Reward. A Con- ditional proportion is when Greater or Idler works are not the caule or merit, but onely the Potit* of the Condition, under which. a greatex or letter reward is to behadAri evil works or fins, there are both proportions Caufall or Meritorious, and cond tional of the works to the_Rewarct. Ofgood works,This propcfEion is fa According, to whole proportion, eternal life is .promifid, that is meritorious ofeternall For here is underflood not a Coda', but a Conditional Proportion, &c. For they have not :the Condi- tions of Merit properly fo called ; But they are the pofition (or per- forming),:he Condition on which God cloth promise and difiribute the:Rewards of eternal life and glory. And doubtlefswhen the bufinefs of the Jail Judgement is not tor examine whether ChrifFhath fatisfied for.us or not, butwhether:we have performed the Conditions on ourpart on which the bene- fits of his fatisra&ion, efpecially eternal Life, were prornifed, mufl needs follow, that fo far our luflitia Caaft in that tryal will lie in our A.;qual performance of. thole Conditions, which is our per fonal Evangelical RighteOulnefs ; and according thereto we fhall be juttifiecV; that is, adjudged .to be the heixs of Life, and ofDamnation, 43 ; we
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