The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

If we should weep as many Tears, as the Sea holds drops; if we should humble our selves as many days, as the world hath stood minutes from the creation, &c. All this were Too short to purchase us the Pardon of one sin, though we did all without sin.

If we should weep as many Tears, as the Sea holds drops; if we should humble our selves as many days, as the world hath stood minutes from the creation, &c. All this were Too short to purchase us the Pardon of one sin, though vve did all vvithout sin.

But Alas! All that ever we can do, is so far from striking ⟨p. 33⟩off any Former score, that we do but set our selves further in debt thereby: So far are we from purchasing a Pardon, that we do but increase our Treason—Operamur, non in justificationem: sed ex justificatione: we must not work, that we may be justified: but we are justified, that we may work.—So that it is the Freest-Mercy.

But Alas! All that ever vve can do, is so far from striking ⟨p. 33⟩off any Former score, that we do but set our selves further in debt thereby: So far are we from purchasing a Pardon, that we do but increase our Treason—Operamur, non in justificationem: sed ex justificatione: we must not work, that we may be justified: but we are justified, that we may work.—So that it is the Freest-Mercy.

And therefore in Scripture you read it all attributed to Grace, Tit. 3.7—We are justified freely by his Grace—