C4 " Dem ;/4 re40.5.15 CRe teacheth that there will followa doable efti of this Anointing and Prayer. ( . healing) The other Effei, is, If any fpecial fins have caufed the difeafe ot the lick perfon, God being entreated by the lick, and the Presbyters, will forgive them. Ifforgivenefs be the Effe i ofPrayer,then Prayer is the Cattle ofForgivenek : which is more hen a Coadition. Mm zia. Ellecaufe if they would admonilh one an- other,and conFefs their fins one to another,and importune God by prayers for one another, and would be Gods Inffruments for the converlion of any erring (-inner : then fhould they alfo be his initruments of laving the foul oftheir neighbour from death, to which by error he was hafting ; and withali they should be Inffru- ments ofcovering and hiding a multitude oftheir erring brothers fins who unlefs he had repented, his fins would have been pro- duced in Gods judgement, to Condemnation and death : which now after the admonition of the erring,and the repentanceof the *dmonifhed, are covered .i Ifanother man may be an Inftrument ofour pardon, which is an efficient caufe, and that byother alts betides faith, then me thinks, ocher ads ofour own may be Conditions, which is lefs : I thould think another man can be no more a Caufe ofour par- don, thenwe may be ofour own. And ifanother do therefore cattle our pardon becaufe he draws us to converfion, then con- verflon it felf would neerlyer caufe it. This therefore is more then I affirm. Yet I know this Godly Divine faith as much againft Juftification by Works as others. But if the offended Brethren will but read alinoff any Proteltant Divine on the Doctrine of Prayer, they fhall loon iind that they generally af- cribe to Prayer more in terms, and as much at leaft in fence, for the obtaining of pardon, as ever I diJ, to any as of mans what- fever. Sure they who commonly make Prayer a Cattle of for gimlet's would never havederiyed it tobe lb much as a meet? Condition, and that with filch indignation as thefe [ton do. G g a si. 7onitia
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