A guide to go to GodA guide to goe to God

Laborious works are profitable¹ for remission of sin, and for deliverance from eternal death.

Laborious workes are profitable¹ for remission of sinne, and for deliuerance from eternall death.

1. 1Ibid. cap. 12.

If by these and such like positions, that which is due to the all sufficient satisfaction of Christ be not attributed to man, let any indifferent reader judge. Can the things which in these positions are avouched, of recompensing wrong done to God, of satisfying the divine justice, of a condigne, or worthy satisfaction, of satisfying truly and properly, to an equality, justly, condignly, and that out of our own works whereunto we are not bound, of a certain infiniteness of our works, and a certain equality with the wrong whereby we have troubled God by sinning, of full remission of sin to be the reward of satisfactory works, of the profit of laborious works for remission of sin, and deliverance from eternal death, Can these things stand with Gods infinite justice, with mans disability to any good thing, with mans unworthiness, and with the imperfection of mans best works? Then may light and darkness in their most extreme degrees, then may the Ark of God, and Dagon, then may Grace and Works stand together: and yet the Apostle saith, If by grace, ¹then it is no more of works, otherwise grace is no more grace. But if of works, then it is no more grace, otherwise work is no more work.

If by these and such like positions, that which is due to the all sufficient satisfaction of Christ be not attributed to man, let any indifferent reader iudge. Can the things which in these positions are auouched, of recompencing wrong done to God, of satisfying the diuine iustice, of a condigne, or worthy satisfaction, of satisfying truely and properly, to an equalitie, iustly, condignely, and that out of our owne workes whereunto we are not bound, of a certaine infinitenesse of our workes, and a certaine equalitie with the wrong whereby wee haue troubled God by sinning, of full remission of sinne to bee the reward of fatisfactorie workes, of the profit of laborious workes for remission of sinne, and deliuerance from eternall death, Can these things stand with Gods infinite iustice, with mans disabilitie to any good thing, with mans vnworthinesse, and with the imperfection of mans best workes? Then may light and darknesse in their most extreme degrees, then may the Arke of God, and Dagon, then may Grace and Workes stand together: and yet the Apostle saith, If by grace,