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V
E
R.9.
éphefians,
Chap.x.
Laftly they fay,
That
which
is
given
according
to
works, is
deferved
by works.
But
fo
is
eternal! life.
That
indeed
which
is
given according unto
works,
as
the
merito-
rious
confer
thereof, that
may well be faid
to be deferved
by
works.
But
now eternall
life
is
not
fo
given, but
is
bellowed according
tá
works,
as
they
are
Teftimonies
of
our
Faith,
whereby
we re[Von
Chrift
onely
for our falvation,
and
for
whofe
fake
oncly beleeved
on,
they
expel
eternal!
life.
This mutt
learn
us
to renouncewhatfoever we
are,in regard
ofrefl-
ing
in it
as
a caufe
of
falvation. Look
in
the ninth
of
Deuteronomie,
verfe
4.
Say
not
in
thy
heart,For
my
righteoufneffe the
Lord bath brought
me
in
to poffeffe
this
land,
6.c.
No,
we
matt
pur
over
all
to the
free
grace
of
God
in
Chrift,
counting our
belt
deeds
as
nienfltunos
gar-
ments,
Reckoning all
.eo
dro(fe
and
dung
to
win
Chrift;
th.tt
is,
to be
found,
not
having
our
own
rightcoufneffe,
but
that
which
is
through
Faith,
Phil.
3.9.
It
is
the
gift of
God:
]
So the
Apoftle faith exprefly,
Rom.
6.33.
The
gift
of
God
is
eternall
life,
through
Iefiu
Chrift.
The
laft
falvation
is
made no letfe
of
the
promife
and
grace,
then
is
our juftificatiefi,
and
righteoufnelfe,
and
life,
Ram.
5. i
.
if
through
the
ofenceof
one
many
be
dead, mach
more
thegrace
of
God,
and
the
gift
by
grace,
which
is
by one
man
lefus
Chrift, bath
abounded onto many.
How
can it
be called
a
reward
It
is fo called
metaphorically,
not
that
properly it
is
a
recom pence
or
wage;but
becaufe it
followeth
in
the end
of
working
:
a
reward
may
be
given
of
meet bounty
and mercie.
But
when
the
Scripture calleth
ir, now wages,now
a
gifts
how
fhall
I know where it
is
properly
taken!
The
Scripture
telleth
us,
that
the word
[gift]
is
properly
taken
for
a
bequeft,without the
defert
of
any
thing
in
us,or work
that
can
come
from us; nothing more
free then
gift,
fo let
us
hold our falvation
molt
free.
A reward may be
a
largeffc
of bounty.
But
the.Papifts
will tell
us, it
is a
gift figuratively, by
a
Catachre-
fis
:
They
fay
it
is
Gods gift,
becaufe
it
is
given of
God,
whereby
it
is
deferved.
This cannot
ftand
with
this
Text, [Not
of
tos,not
of
works]
This
were
an
intolerable Catachrefis to fay,
that
the
thing
I
buy
with my money, were
a
free gift
to
me, which the Papifis
muff
here
yeeld.
Again,
if
it
were therefore onely
of
grace
,
and
a
gift,
then
it
might
as
truly be
faid,
not to be
of
grace,
and
not
a
gift
of
God,
which fome impioufly fpare
not to
fpeak.
Again,
it
were
a
contra
-
dieaion,
to
call it
a
gift, buying with the penny,
and receiving
of
gift,
thefe are
contrary,God
taking
at
my hand
as
good
as
he giveth,taking
that
for which he cannot deny
me heaven
in
jufl exchange.
V
E
R
s.
9.
Not
of works, left
any
man fhould
boat
himftlf.
VERS.
g.
In the verfe before,
the Apoftle
fheweth the fountain
of
all
faving
poRles
The
A
good,
to be the
free
grace
of
God:
and the qualification
in
us
(by
nt.
Faith) which
makes
us
capable
of
all
that good.
Now
he
proceeds
Z
z
in
251
Objet.
How reward is
Riven to
works.
Renounce
we
our
helves
wholly.
O6je11.
,gals'.
Why it
is cal-
led a
reward.
Objeïi.
Aufir.
Onme
Son=
ex
dilcetione.
donantis profi-
cifcitur.
The Papilla
lhift
about
merit.
í