the Epi ,$le t©`the G chapa. ( -55 4I l I. Obie f. Infants haue no works whereby they may be lodged, feeing theydoe neither good nor mill, as theScripture fpeakethof lacoband Rau, Rom.o. r t . therefore all flyall not be judged according w workes. An/ There phrafcs of Scrip- 5 i ture, Ai 4maagforcer,P M.ia11be reape : etc*1 one ad/ receitie ac. i cording to huwork s,C c. are riot to be extended to all, but muff be rettrained to rush as haue works, & know!ed`e, to difcerne 1 betwixt good and euilf', which infants have not. For befides 'J that they are deitittrteof workes, they of fowant the vIe ofrea- 1 4 l d by the bookeof to íòn : and therefore: tltc} !hall not be itrr.gr confcience , but by the booke of lite. For to fay as .1-('co de S. raid. doth,vpon the Rom gtuaef1.5.9 that they 1Lall'e condcln ned for the fumes which their parents committed in their con- ception and mantic, as though they thentfèlues had a&ually 15 corenittedthcra,is contrarie to that Ezek, t 8.2.o. theTownehall not 6ta>e the rrìlgi!; is efPYJE fit/îi9'. V. G(lre3. But how fhall they be pronounced` Mil, who bceingcome to yeares of difcretion , yet have no good works, as L4z4V1" =1 , and the tltcefc upon the croffe , who liuing l.cudly so 211 his life Ton;,was converted at the !aft- gafpe ? /inf. That L = :_ xorm had no good works,' whereby he might be declared lull, ,. , .t cannot he prowled : the contrarie rather may be gathered " out of Scripture: and that thegood theete hadno goodworks, it is o.. it 3.ai lfl the SCxt,I..uk.2 3.40,4 t.where lie maketh a no- 25 table cotrfertioti ofaria , and rcbuketh his fellow , labouring to bring hi-mto the fatth,winchwas>a, memorable faE'-ofChri-ï Thanchat itie. Secondly, though it weregran-need that theyhad, no good works inaelion; yet theywere full ofgoodworkes in: I affet1ton, andby there theywere to be iudged, Godaccepting -o I in his children the will for the deede. Laszsfrz by reafon of hts verreatne pouertie , and the theefe by realon c,.-1- tile Chorines of time winch he had.to hue in the world , could not be plentil ttli in good workes,thereby to glare furl crent teflirnonieof their vnfained faith : yet God accepteth a nan-acco=cling to that 35 whichhe bath, and not according to that which he Bath not.: accepting, the will for the deede , as he accepted the willing- nes of. Abr:thatmnto facrifice.hisfonne,.as.though he had facrifiP eed him indcede.G en. a o. VI. O6iet1,. God cloth notproportionate the rev:are :to the .worke.,becaufe-he cloth reward:v os.ks, v.hitharc finite &.tem bbl táì in ni 3y, fjsixalk . °-... ._-y-
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