Osorius having followed his own Hosius, interprets this place, as if these words of the Apostle should not be otherways understood, than of Works, not those which are peculiarly ours, but those which are performed by faith […] in vigour and stirred up, &c. We have heard Osorius: Receive also Hosius, who makes a noise out of the same 1Tridentine Oracle. The works, saith he, which they do, are good in this respect, as they are Christ's Works, not theirs. For in as much as they are theirs, though they seem to be good Works, they conduce nothing at all to Eternal Life: But in as much as they are God's, and the Works of his hands, so through bis bounty they are esteemed worthy both of the title of Righteousness, and the reward of ⟨p. 223⟩the Heavenly Kingdom, &c. Whence all their reasoning and discourse of good works is of this kind: God doth not see and 2Crown our Works in us, but his own. And moreover the same Hosius adds, pleading after his own manner, that the reward of the Heavenly Kingdom will be given to the Works, which indeed are ours, but not for their dignity as they proceed from us, but for Christ's sake, whose handy-works they are, as Aug. says: For he that lives and dwells in us works them. And for that cause (which is more ridiculous) this Phormio goes on to rail at the Lutherans as Enemies of Grace; Who, forsooth, as he says, do much more grievously detract from the Glory of Christ, 3than they, and make void his Cross, and diminish the price of his blood. For when they detract from the Works of the regenerate, they do not derogate from their merits, but from Christ, whence all their dignity derives, &c.
Osorius having followed his own Hosius, interprets this place, as if these words of the Apostle should not be otherways understood, than of Works, not those which are peculiarly ours, but those which are performed by faith 〈…〉 in vigour and stirred up, &c. We have heard Osorius: Receive also Hosius, who makes a noise out of the same 1Tridentine Oracle. The works, saith he, which they do, are good in this respect, as they are Christ's Works, not theirs. For in as much as they are tbeirs, though they seem to be good Works, they conduce nothing at all to Eternal Life: But in as much as they are God's, and the Works of his hands, so through bis bounty they are esteemed worthy both of the title of Righteousness, and the reward of ⟨p. 223⟩the Heavenly Kingdom, &c. Whence all their reasoning and discourse of good works is of this kind: God doth not see and 2Crown our Works in us, but his own. And moreover the same Hosius adds, pleading after his own manner, that the reward of the Heavenly Kingdom will be given to the Works, which indeed are ours, but not for their dignity as they proceed from us, but for Christ's sake, whose handy-works they are, as Aug. says: For he that lives and dwells in us works them. And for that cause (which is more ridiculous) this Phormio goes on to rail at the Lutherans as Enemies of Grace; Who, forsooth, as he says, do much more grievously detract from the Glory of Christ, 3than they, and make void his Cross, and diminish the price of his blood. For when they detract from the Works of the regenerate, they do not derogate from their merits, but from Christ, whence all their dignity derives, &c.
- 1Ex Hosio confut. lib. 5. pag. 451.
- 2Hosius ibid.
- 3Ex Hosio lib. 5. Nu. 452.
