The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

Conditio in the best Latin Writers is variously used; answering [Greek or Hebrew] in the Greek: That is, Status, Fortuna, Dignitas, Causa, Pactum initum. In which of their significations it is here to be understood is not easy to be determined. In common use among us, it sometimes denotes the State and Quality of men, that is, [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew], and sometimes a valuable consideration of what is to be done; that is, [Greek or Hebrew] or [Greek or Hebrew]. But herein it is applied unto things in great variety; sometimes the principal procuring purchasing cause is so expressed. As the Condition whereon a man lends ⟨p. 156⟩another an hundred pound, is that he be paid it again with Interest. The Condition whereon a man conveyeth his Land unto another, is, that he receive so much money for it. So a Condition is a valuable consideration. And sometimes it signifies such things as are added to the principal cause whereon its operation is suspended. As a man bequeaths an hundred pound unto another, on condition that he come or go to such a place to demand it. This is no valuable consideration, yet is the effect of the principal cause, or the Will of the Testator suspended thereon. And as unto Degrees of respect unto that whereof any thing is a Condition, as to purchase, procurement, valuable consideration, necessary presence, the variety is endless. We therefore cannot obtain a determinate sense of this word Condition, but from a particular declaration of what is intended by it, wherever it is used. And although this be not sufficient to exclude the Use of it from the Declaration of the way and manner how we are justified by Faith; yet is it so to exclude the imposition of any precise signification of it, any other than is given it by the matter treated of. Without this every thing is left ambiguous and uncertain whereunto it is applied.

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