506 buFhauebe- fi4e?afGods free c oodnes 'looking.¡Ton them in the herfraionof is Spans,. fpeciall promi- 1es ofreward made vnto them, both in this life and in the life to come. The fecondBooke ofDiuinitie, CH. a r. 9. Touching the reward,it.is true indeed , in manypla- ces of the Scripture, large and ample protrtifes are made untoour workes, as Matt: i o.4a. Whofoeuer/hallgiue tá oneof thefelittle ones a cup ofcold water, onely in thenano of a Diftiple , /ball not. lofe hit reward-, Ephef.-6.8. What goodfoener. merit. man dotb,that he Jhell receiue oftheLord, Heb.6,to. God is not vninf1, to forget _your workes and the labour or lone whichyee (hawed towards his Name, mini_ f ring to the Saints,&.e, But the reward they haue, is not for thernfelues,or of their owne defert, fnce there is no. thing abfolutely good and worthy of reward , that commeth from vs, and enerlafling life, with all theparts ofit, id the freegift ofGodinlefluChrií , Rom.6.23.but 'becaufe they proceed fromFaith, that is, by the protñife ofGrace, not by thepromife of the Law. Good workes there- fore auaile no whit to the purchafing or me- riting of our Salvati- on , neither in the whole, nor in part. Firfc , Becaufe the beiR of all our workes in this life is flayned with force pollution, and therefore not able to{landbefore God , whole exa& Iuilice cannot abide the leaf+ defer}, Secondly, The Apofile faith exprefly, Tkom.3.2o. By theworkes of theLawnone can be iuflifaed. Where, by the workesof the Law, hee tneaneth not workes doneby our ovine (irength without Faith and the Grace of God (as Papifis abfurdly teach;) forwhatfotuer it not ofFaith, ùfinne, Rém.74.23.. And therefore a clueflion toovn- worthy for the ApoffIc to difpute, whether or no,vvc.rkes meerely ThePopith doftrine, that we are iuftificd_by theworkes which Chrift worketh in vs by his Spirit. So ioy tying wo.kes together withChrifl in the- matter-of luflification,and their doftrine of Merits : teaching that the good workes of fuch as are-in the flareofGrace, doe ex condigno, (that is of a (ufficicnt worthinefie and defert that is in them) merit eternal! life,
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