What!1 Doth imputed righteousness make holiness needless? Under pardon, this is neither better nor worse, than an old Popish calumny, such as hath been cast into the face of Protestants over and over: Chemnitius asserting justification by imputed Righteousness, tells us,2 Inde verò Pontificii texunt calumniam, omnia decreta Tridentina ita condita sunt de justificatione, ut obliquè nos insimulent, quasi doceamus credentes non renovari, quasi charitatem & obedientiam ita excludamus, ut nec adsit, nec sequatur in reconciliatis: And what return doth that learned man make thereunto? Sed tantùm Syeophanticae & impudentes calumniae sunt, quibus strepitum excitant. The learned Chamier brings in Sapeins, 3charging the Protestants thus, Non esse nos justos, nist solû imputatione justitiae Christi, non ⟨p. 153⟩autem ullâ inhaerente qualitate: And Costerus thus, Christus est nostra justitia, nulla est ergo alia justitia in nobis: And Bozius thus, Ut salutem consequaris & sis sanctus, aiunt omnes Protestantes, nihil est necesse boni aliquid velis, moliaris, aut facias, Christo fidas, impunè quidvis audeas, & ad exitum perducas; and then expresses himself thus, Immanem, ita me Deus amet, calumniam: The excellent Davenant, 4ushering in Bellarmine and Campian, and Becanus, as casting the same dirt into the face of Protestants; saith plainly to the two first, quot verba, tot serè mendacia; and to the third, calumnia est, & apertè falsa. The Papists you see, have cast out these calumnies, but should a Protestant do so? No surely; the Author I confess, hath done a great honour to these few Nonconformists, in casting upon them that reproach of Christ, (for so as a Protestant I must call it) which many a son of the Church of England would willingly bear, hoping to have the spirit of Glory rest upon him; but I suppose, he hath done no great right to the Protestant cause therein: How vain this calumny is, doth as soon appear, as we can open our eyes upon the common distinction ⟨p. 154⟩between Justification and Sanctification: Justification is an Action of God without us, Sanctification an Action of the Spirit within us; the one is by the perfect Righteousness of Christ imputed, the other by the holy Graces of the Spirit infused and inherent in us: In the one we are freed from the Guilt of Sin, in the other from the Corruption and Pollution of it:
What!1 Doth imputed righteousness make holiness needless? Under pardon, this is neither better nor worse, than an old Popish calumny, such as hath been cast into the face of Protestants over and over: Chemnitius asserting justification by imputed Righteousness, tells us,2 Inde verò Pontificii texunt calumniam, omnia decreta Tridentina ita condita sunt de justificatione, ut obliquè nos insimulent, quasi doceamus credentes non renovari, quasi charitatem & obedientiam ita excludamus, ut nec adsit, nec sequatur in reconciliatis: And what return doth that learned man make thereunto? Sed tantùm Syeophanticae & impudentes calumniae sunt, quibus strepitum excitant. The learned Chamier brings in Sapeins, 3charging the Protestants thus, Non esse nos justos, nist solû imputatione justitiae Christi, non ⟨p. 153⟩autem ullâ inhaerente qualitate: And Costerus thus, Christus est nostra justitia, nulla est ergo alia justitia in nobis: And Bozius thus, Ʋt salutem consequaris & sis sanctus, aiunt omnes Protestantes, nihil est necesse boni aliquid velis, moliaris, aut facias, Christo fidas, impunè quidvis audeas, & ad exitum perducas; and then expresses himself thus, Immanem, ita me Deus amet, calumniam: The excellent Davenant, 4ushering in Bellarmine and Campian, and Becanus, as casting the same dirt into the face of Protestants; saith plainly to the two first, quot verba, tot serè mendacia; and to the third, calumnia est, & apertè falsa. The Papists you see, have cast out these calumnies, but should a Protestant do so? No surely; the Author I confess, hath done a great honour to these few Nonconformists, in casting upon them that reproach of Christ, (for so as a Protestant I must call it) which many a son of the Church of England would willingly bear, hoping to have the spirit of Glory rest upon him; but I suppose, he hath done no great right to the Protestant cause therein: How vain this calumny is, doth assoon appear, as we can open our eyes upon the common distinction ⟨p. 154⟩between Justification and Sanctification: Justification is an Action of God without us, Sanctification an Action of the Spirit within us; the one is by the perfect Righteousness of Christ imputed, the other by the holy Graces of the Spirit infused and inherent in us: In the one we are freed from the Guilt of Sin, in the other from the Corruption and Pollution of it:
- 1Answer.
- 2Exam. Conc. Trid. de Justif.
- 3Cham. de Sanctif. cap. 2.
- 4De H• tuali cap. •.
