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What it required to fatting vertices and goodworkes. 59 ricall faith, whereby we know and belecue, that that vertue nongisniur,re. which we embrace, or that dutie which wee performe, is iigrtæ virtares warranted and commanded in the word of God, but a true bon e t fJi non liuely and iuflifying faith,whereby we lay hold vpcn Chrifl æ 2; edam! P and all his benefits for our iuftification. For without this &c.Greeor. neither ourperfons, nor workes are accepted of God : not moral.hb.z. our perfons,becaufe we are enemies, vntill by Chrifl we be caP14. reconciled; not our vertues,duties and workes, becaufe they t.T " "rs are imperfe& and flained with our corruptions, and therfore they cannot indure the fight ofGodsiuflice,till theirimper- fe&ion bee couered with Chriflsperfeó`lrighteoufaes,and their pollution cleanfed and wafhed awaywith his moll pre - cious blood. So that whofoeuer are not endued with this faith haue no true vertues, but counterfeit fhadowes, their bel aions are but glorious finnes;which howfoeuer they are magnified among men, yet are they odious and abomi- nable in the fight ofGod. And to conclude, when they are moll iuflified in the world, they are in the flare of death and condemnation; for the Apoflle faith,thatall,without excep. lion, fbal16edamsaedwhich beleeue not the truth; which doome z.Thefi z.t z. is fo certaine, that our Sauiour Chrillfaith,that he who belee. lohn 3.i8. ueth not is condemned alreadie; becaufe he beleeueth not in the name of the only Sonne of God. Fifthly, all our vertues mull be imbraced, and all duties 4Seci.B. muulbeperformed in obedience to God,and becaufehe hath 111 "r V"."1" commanded and commended them vino vs in his word : for cmedteR be imbra- if they arife from felfe -loue orloue of the world, either for d good feare of punifhment, or becaufe we would haue the pralle of bedienceto =n men, or otherwife aduance our worldly ends, they cannot wards God. be pleating vntoGod,becaufe we do not refpedl his will,but 430.9. our owne, nor ferue him, but our owne turnes. With all oar o- Sixthly, with our other vertues we mull ioyne humilitie, the viruses we which is that precious ornament that beautifieth all other muHioyneüu- milrtie vernies and good parts in the fight ofGod and men: without Size canja labo. which humilitie (as one faith) helaboureth in vatné which Qa- ratq si virtu - thereth other venues : for in another place he faith, Hee that tes ägoAar. rarhercth othervertices without humilitie, doth as it were carrie Bernard. de dsiíhinto the wind. True humilitie therefore doth open the eyes, ordine vita. tbhiles`l 1i1).8...