C'93 cenditisns requiredby the new L4111 to the continuing and confute mating our jufliiiication] I have (hewed you that Divines do judge otherwife. My next answer was [If Work] under any notion it excluded, then faith it excludedj You reply ä. [ Thue Bellarmine, t e.1 .Anfv. I knew indeed that Bellarmine faith fo. But Sir, you fpeak to one that is very neer Gods tribunal, and therefore is re- folved to,look after naked truth: and not to be affrighted from it by the name either ofBellare ine or Antichrìl;and who is at tall brought to wink at prejudice. I am fully refolved by Gode grace to go on in the wayof God as he difcovereth it to me , and not to turn out of it when Bellarmine (lands in it. Though the Divels believe , I will (by Gods help) believe too : and not deny Chrift,becaufe the Divelsconfefs him. You fay ,Non feguitur, I prove the confequence. If all works (or ads) be excluded under any notion whatfoever, and iffaith be a work or a& then faith is excluded. But, &c. Ergo,&c. By the reafon ofyour denyal I underftandnothing that you deny , but [ that faith is awork, or act] which I never heard denyed before, and I hope never (halt do again. The common anfwer to Kellar- mine is, that faith Which is A work juflifteeh , but not as it is a Work: Which anfwer I confefs to be found, and fubfcrbe to it. But then according to that , faith which is a work juftifieth under fome notion (fuppofe it were under the notion of an in- ftrument) though not under the notion of a work. But you go another way, and fay, 1. Faith is paffive in its injtrumen- tality, and though to believe, be agrammatical action, its ver- bum ae`kivum , Jet its phyfici. , or louper phyftce paffive. 4 man by believing doth not operari, but recipere. As videre, audire,are Grammatical allions, but phyfIcal er naturalpafons, mac. Anfwer. i. Thefe are very fublime Alfertions, quite pail the reach of mycapacity, and of all theirs that I ufe to converfe with ; and I dare fay it is noHerefie to deny 'them, nor can that point be neer the foundation that ftarads upon fuch propswhich fewmen can apprehend. 2. What if Faithwere paffive in its Inflrumentaliry ? Is it not at all an Aí'lthere- fore ? If it b ; Then that which is an e4 of Work, is not excluded under the notion of a paffive Infirument , and fo Cc not
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