3 12 `Cìha .4.. ACommentarie vpon ï` vetovs the graceand mercieof God: and the effeEline, ofour faluation,is in the fameplace afcribcd toChriti and lus tcfiu- ration. Theconclufaon thenof Paul is to berernébred: for it lerues as in engync tooucrturnethe maire grounds ofpoperie . The prirnache ofthe Popeis aoaten eftate hn which he is flubfhtu- ted hntothcplace and r.00rncc of Chrifi: for hetakes vl:on him tomake lawn that properlyand truely binde con fcience, tien as the lawes ofGod. Agáinc , he takesvntohim a proper and iudtchall:power,to remit or retain the fumes of aven . Nowe .to there aE1aons indeed,are the proper afthons of God & thrift', nomoere creature incapable of them. In:this refpeft the prima. tie ofthe Pope is .a .impotent and beggarly inuention.Again, the Romifhrelhgionbetide the al tufitcrent oblation of Chrdt vpon the crofhe,fets vp the ffcrifice datemalle for the fhnnes 14 ofthe quicke and the dead:befades the Intercefsionof Chrit1, it fetsvp the Intcrceffion of Saints and Angels: betide the per. tea fatisfaE ion ofChrifLit lets vp humane fatisfaclions:bc1ide rheinfinite merit ofChriít,it rnaintaines and magnifies the me- rit ofhumane worker. But all thrfe are but impotent and beg. zo garlydeuifes ofmen. For Chrilf in his Sacrifice, SatisfaEtion, interceflìon,rnerit,admits no corrivail or of ociate.A11 aEtioaas ofhis arc perfeft in their kind,and neede no fupplie. This againe muff teach vs,to'content our Celtics with Chilft alone, and not to fet vp any thing with him, or againfl him, z4 This is the fafefl and the lurch courte. A certen Papift writeth to this effe t1,that we Proteflants inour iufhfication,cleaueon- ly tothebodie ofthe tree , and thatshe Papiffscicaue both to the bodie and the branches . And I fay agame, it is the fafeft with both the hands tó cicaue to the bocheof thetree:and he 30 that with onehand laies hold vpon the bodie of thetree, and withthe other fraies himfelfe vpon the branches, is in great dander of falling. The fecond conclufion ofPaul is , that to fct vp any thing out-ofChrift,as a meritorious caufc of faluation , and to place 34 our iuffification intit , either in whole or in partis indecde the feruice ofIdols.And thereafon is plaine . For this is to let vp fomethingin the place and roome ofChrifl : and menput a confidence in that which they make a carafe of their owns fal- otation. The
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