P. Merit is a name I perceive that you are against. And we make so small a matter of words, that you shall choose any other name of the same signification, and we will forbear this, rather than offend you: But yet tell me, Q. 1. What if the words [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew] were translated Deserving and Merit, would it not be as true a translation as Worthy and Worthiness, when it is the very same thing that is meant? Nay, when Merit of Condignity is the highest kind, which the Papists themselves mention and are reproved for, do you not hereby imply that Condignity is a bigger word than bare Merit?
Quest. 2. And I ask you, Whether all the ancient Teachers of the Churches since the Apostles, whose Writings are come down to us, do not familiarly apply these names [Greek or Hebrew] and Meritum to believers? And if you persuade men that all these Teachers and Churches were Papists, you will persuade most that believe you to be Papists too. But such is the success of over-doing!
Quest. 3. And I would know, Whether in common speech, Reward and Merit or Desert be not Relatives, as Master and Servant, Husband and Wife are? Is there any Reward which is not Meriti Praemium, the Reward of Merit? What mean you your self else by the word Reward?
P. Merit is a name I perceive that you are against. And we make so small a matter of words, that you shall choose any other name of the same signification, and we will forbear this, rather than offend you: But yet tell me, Q. 1. What if the words 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 were translated Deserving and Merit, would it not be as true a translation as Worthy and Worthiness, when it is the very same thing that is meant? Nay, when Merit of Condignity is the highest kind, which the Papists themselves mention and are reproved for, do you not hereby imply that Condignity is a bigger word than bare Merit?
Quest. 2. And I ask you, Whether all the antient Teachers of the Churches since the Apostles, whose Writings are come down to us, do not familiarly apply these names 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 and Meritum to believers? And if you perswade men that all these Teachers and Churches were Papists, you will perswade most that believe you to be Papists too. But such is the success of over-doing!
Quest. 3. And I would know, Whether in common speech, Reward and Merit or Desert be not Relatives, as Master and Servant, Husband and Wife are? Is there any Reward which is not Meriti Praemium, the Reward of Merit? What mean you your self else by the word Reward?
