2. To your second Exception, [against my approving a speech of Dr. W.] I ans. 1. Do I need to tell you how unlike this saying of Dr. Wards is to that of the Council of Tre•t? You know by Justification they mean principally Sanctification? But the Dr. saith not that these are preparatives to Justification. Sure you could not seriously suspect me to join with the Papists when they speak of one Subject and I of another. The acts of that Session will tell you more differences between them and me, then is worth the while to repeat: and you know how largely Chemmitius endeavours to prove that by Dispositions and Preparations, The Council mean Merits; and that ⟨p. 388⟩they would subdolously introduce the Thing, (Merita de congruo) by changing the name; as out of Osius words and others he gather•. 2. And know you not that Chemnitius professeth to yield to the soundness of that very sixth Chapter, which you allege, were it not for these guiles that they use, and their evil sense to advance Merit? For saith he, Omnino certus est sive modus sive ordo in v•rbo Dei nobis designatus & prascriptus, quo Deus utitur quando vult hominem ad Justificationem deduc•re, &c. Et qui ad modum sive ordi•em illum divinitus prascriptum, non volunt s• ductu spiritus accommodare, s•d negligunt & conculcant illum, bi ad Justificationem non proveniunt. Vult enim Deus à N•titia & Assensu verbi sui nos ordiri: & ante Justificationem oportet praecedere contritionem, hoc est, seriam agnitionem peccatorum, pavores conscientiae agnoscentio iram Dei adversus nostra peccat•, & dolentis propter peocatum: in qua contritione non retinetur, sed abjicitur prapositum pers•verandi & pergendi in sceleribus. Ad hos vere terrores necesse est acc•d•r• fidem, que agnitione & fiducia misericordia Dei promissa propter silium med ator•m, rursui erigat & consoletur animum, ne oppressi desperation ruamus in aeternum exitium. Sed fides accedat ad Deum, quaerat, defideret, petat, apprahendat & accipiat Remissionem peccatorum. Et hoc modo se• ordine in v•rbo D•i designate via• p•rari Domino ut in ipso, per & propteripsum fide consequamur & accipiamus Justificationem, ipsa scriptura tradit, &c. this also he shows Luther approved of.
2. To your second Exception, [against my approving a speech of Dr. W.] I ans. 1. Do I need to tell you how unlike this saying of Dr. Wards is to that of the Council of Tre•t? You know by Justification they mean principally Sanctification? But the Dr. saith not that these are preparatives to Justification. Sure you could not seriously suspect me to join with the Papists when they speak of one Subject and I of another. The acts of that Session will tel you more differences between them and me, then is worth the while to repeat: and you know how largely Chemmitius endeavours to prove that by Dispositions and Preparations, The Council mean Merits; and that ⟨p. 388⟩they would subdolously introduce the Thing, (Merita de congruo) by changing the name; as out of Osius words and others he gather•. 2. And know you not that Chemnitius prosesseth to yield to the soundness of that very sixth Chapter, which you alledge, were it not for these guiles that they use, and their evil sense to advance Merit? For saith he, Omnino certus est sive modus sive ordo in v•rbo Dei nobis designatus & prascriptus, quo Deus utitur quando vult hominem ad Justificationem deduc•re, &c. Et qui ad modum sive ordi•em illum divinitus prascriptum, non volunt s• ductu spiritus accommodare, s•d negligunt & conculcant illum, bi ad Justificationem non proveniunt. Vult enim Deus à N•titia & Assensu verbi sui nos ordiri: & ante Justificationem oportet praecedere contritionem, hoc est, seriam agnitionem peccatorum, pavores conscientiae agnoscentio iram Dei adversus nostra peccat•, & dolentis propter peocatum: in qua contritione non retinetur, sed abjicitur prapositum pers•verandi & pergendi in sceleribus. Ad hos vere terrores necesse est acc•d•r• fidem, que agnitione & fiducia misericordia Dei promissa propter silium med ator•m, rursui erigat & consoletur animum, ne oppressi desperatione ruamus in aeternum exitium. Sed fides accedat ad Deum, quaerat, defideret, petat, apprahendat & accipiat Remissionem peccatorum. Et hoc modo se• ordine in vrbo Di designat via prari Domino ut in ipso, per & propteripsum fide consequamur & accipiamus Justificationem, ipsa scriptura tradit, &c. this also he shews Luther approved of.
