I 04 4 Teetaiptofibe aApa %. C AP.3; Hype.. For they areWorthy: TMPopifb _Ore dJpicke much glee and glad- et fome matter out of this word worthy ; as if it vitaeworthy Patron sat ai5. of their Merit ofConeli rnirie. But let them confider this, that this merit is given to thegarment., not to the Body ; that is, to the t*put* riot/ áf Chrifts rig',t oa1;1 ke, which we put on as it.were agarrnent, not to our ownOh, r: rrrfànttity\ For it cannot be ofmoreaccount, not to defile the garment, then thegarment itfèlfis. And whereas thereare diverfe fignificarions-ofgarments, as we have taught , the worrhineífe árifeth not, either from theprofelon, or ftomrnecttretì dogòód worker whereby we feeme to be holy unto others, nor yet from the joy of the Spirit, which we feele within our felves, but from thence-only-that-thefataler ceunteth PS for iuft when we are clothed . Withhis fort. He therefore that is clothed is worthy , though not la# reafonof atywell Mingofthe garments, but only for this reafon, that in thefe garments we ate prefeuted blameleffe in the fight Of God. Even as a man bath the fence of feeing, though not thewhole ofa man, but that part only thathath the faculty of teeing in it. q. He that óvereometh,he!ballbe clothed. Some copies and thevul- gatireadwith theword it He that nfiiercotherh,heflatbe -clothedfo.Bnt the'reeldithinof afithilitude is únufuall , where there is noprbp¢ofit Ot cfitgoing before. Unleffe perhaps they be referred to the former %tee.; as if he fhouid fay ; As they who have not at all confettted to errours fhall walke withme in white , fo thefe that Ball after force tvreftling elèapeforth from them (hall bed /Abed with white. As ifthat formic` reward were :forthofe thatfell not, this were for thofe that repent, andforfd<e theerranrt Wherewith they had been be- fore entangled. Ofwhichlatter forttherewere many in Germany be- fore the booke ofConcord , whenas the chiefTeachersinmelt Uni- verlïties, tinderífóod thé trueDot`trine aboúttheupper ofthe Lord, and theopinions ofVbiqnity,and the Corrot}t11pr'efeoceàn-thePopper, werecommonly caft behind the door, as Gè6g& Sohnine witneffeth in his explicationof the e IuguffaneConff ón.Which Bothmoreevi- dently appear by the Synodof Drefda ; Anno t 571. Where it was decreed, bycommon confent, bothofall the Superintetdentr of the dtitchyofSaxotiy, asalfo dal' theDatours in the Uníve&ties' at Lip/ia andWittenberg, that theVbiquity ofthe body ofChriff is ahor- x ible prophanation oft e Articles of the Creed, and a renewing ofall herefies, Mercur. Gallobel. Anno t 592. And from that time, there was a more full light breaking out day by day , many were rowzed from their dead fleepe,and opened theireyes tofee the truth: Whotti tlacrcfort
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