The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

Conscientia mea meruit damnationem, & penitentia mea non sufficit ad satisfactionem, sed certum est quod misericordia tua superat omnem offensionem. My Conscience hath deserved damnation, and my Repentance is not sufficient for satisfaction, but most certain it is, that thy mercy aboundeth above all offence. And this seems to me a better Direction then those more lately given by some of the Roman Church. Such is the prayer suggested unto a sick man, by Johan. Polandus lib. Methodus in adjuvandis morientibus. Domine Jesus, conjunge, obsecro, obsequium meum cum omnibus quae tu egisti, & passus es ex tam perfecta Charitate & Obedientia. Et cum divitiis satisfactionum & meritorum Dilectionis, Patri aeterno illud offerre digneris. Or that of a greater Author, Antidote. Animae, fol. 17. Tu hinc o rosea Martyrum turba offer pro me, nunc & in hora mortis meae, merita fidelitatum, constantiae & pretiosi sanguinis▪ cum sanguine Agni immaculati, pro omnium salute effust. Hierom long before Anselm, spake to the same purpose. Cum dies Judicij aut dormitionis advenerit, omnes manus dissolventur; quibus dicitur in alio loco confortamini manus dissolutae; dissolventur auntem manus quia nullum opus dignum Dei justitia reperiatur, & non justificabitur in conspectu ejus omnis vivens, unde Propheta dicit in Psalmo, si iniquitates attendas Domine, quis sustinebit, lib. 6. in Isa. in cap. 13. v. 6, 7. When the day of Judgement, or of Death, shall come, all hands will be dissolved (that is, faint or fall down) unto which it is said in another place, be strengthened ye hands that hang down. But all hands shall be melted down, (that is, all mens strength and confidence shall fail them) because no works shall be found which can answer the Righteousness of God; for no flesh shall be justified in his sight. Whence the Prophet says in the Psalm, If thou Lord shouldst mark iniquity, who should stand? And ⟨p. 16⟩Ambrose to the same purpose, Nemo ergo sibi arroget, nemo de meritis glorietur, nemo de potestate se jactet, omnes speremus per Dominum Jesum misericordiam invenire, quoniam omnes ante Tribunal ejus stabimus, de illo veniam, de illo indulgentiam postulabo, quaenam spes alia peccatoribus, in Psal. 119. Resh.

Conscientia mea meruit damnationem, & penitentia mea non sufficit ad satisfactionem, sed certum est quod misericordia tua superat omnem offensionem. My Conscience hath deserved damnation, and my Repentance is not sufficient for satisfaction, but most certain it is, that thy mercy aboundeth above all offence. And this seems to me a better Direction then those more lately given by some of the Roman Church. Such is the prayer suggested unto a sick man, by Johan. Polandus lib. Methodus in adjuvandis morientibus. Domine Jesu, conjunge, obsecro, obsequium meum cum omnibus quae tu egisti, & passus es ex tam perfecta Charitate & Obedientia. Et cum divitiis satisfactionum & meritorum Dilectionis, Patri aeterno illud offerre digneris. Or that of a greater Author, Antidot. Animae, fol. 17. Tu hinc o rosea Martyrum turba offer pro me, nunc & in hora mortis meae, merita fidelitatum, constantiae & pretiosi sanguinis cum sanguine Agni immaculati, pro omnium salute effust. Hierom long before Anselm, spake to the same purpose. Cum dies Judicij aut dormitionis advenerit, omnes manus dissolventur; quibus dicitur in alio loco confortamini manus dissolutae; dissolventur auntem manus quia nullum opus dignum Dei justitia reperiatur, & non justificabitur in conspectu ejus omnis vivens, unde Propheta dicit in Psalmo, si iniquitates attendas Domine, quis sustinebit, lib. 6. in Isa. in cap. 13. v. 6, 7. When the day of Judgement, or of Death, shall come, all hands will be dissolved (that is, faint or fall down) unto which it is said in another place, be strengthened ye hands that hang down. But all hands shall be melted down, (that is, all mens strength and confidence shall fail them) because no works shall be found which can answer the Righteousness of God; for no flesh shall be justified in his sight. Whence the Prophet says in the Psalm, If thou Lord shouldst mark iniquity, who should stand? And