Asser. 3. There are not properly the same causes of the possession of Life Eternal, and of the righteousness of Life Eternal: The ransom of Christs blood is only the cause of the right. For jus or right to Life Eternal is a legal and a moral thing, e•s morale, and hath a moral cause, as a man hath right to such a City being the Lord and owner thereof by birth, or money▪ or ⟨p. 177⟩conquest, or by gift or grant of a Prince or of the Citizens themselves, but possession and enjoying the houses and rents of the City is a Physical thing, ens Physicum, and hath a Physical cause, as eating, drinking, lodging, sleeping, wearing of clothes to defend the body from the cold. So the legal right a man hath to the bread and lodging he hath in an Inns, but the Physical causes, are hunger, appetite, bodily necessities so require and his pleasure to make use of such necessities. Hence the eating, drinking,1 may be Physically good, and the right, jus legal, very bad, he may have no right to the bread, when he comes to it only by spoil and rapine. So the legal right, jus legal to life eternal is the ransom of blood that Christ payed, our Goel, our friend and kinsman, to make the inheritance ours; but that great (I may say) almost Apostolic light, Mr. John Calvin saith good works, are, as it were, the inferior causes of the possession of life. So simple possession is one thing, and qu• jure aut titulo, but by what Law-right he possesseth, is another thing.
Asser. 3. There are not properly the same causes of the possession of Life Eternall, and of the righteousnesse of Life Eternall: The ransome of Christs blood is only the cause of the right. For jus or right to Life Eternall is a legall and a morall thing, e•s morale, and hath a morall cause, as a man hath right to such a City being the Lord and owner thereof by birth, or money▪ or ⟨p. 177⟩conquesse, or by gift or grant of a Prince or of the Citizens themselves, but possession and injoying the houses and rents of the City is a Physicall thing, ens Physicum, and hath a Physicall cause, as eating, drinking, lodging, sleeping, wearing of cloaths to defend the body from the cold. So the legall right a man hath to the bread and lodging he hath in an Innes, but the Physicall causes, are hunger, appetite, bodily necessities so require and his pleasure to make use of such necessities. Hence the eating, drinking,1 may be Physically good, and the right, jus legale, very bad, he may have no right to the bread, when he comes to it only by spoil and rapine. So the legall right, jus legale to life eternall is the ransome of blood that Christ payed, our Goel, our friend and kinsman, to make the inheritance ours; but that great (I may say) almost Apostolick light, Mr. John Calvin saith good works, are, as it were, the inferiour causes of the possession of life. So simple possession is one thing, and qu• jure aut titulo, but by what Law-right he possesseth, is another thing.
- 1Christs blood is the right of merit to life eternal, good works the way and means by which we come to the possession thereof. Calvinus Instr. l. 3. c. 15. n. 21. Respo. ad 1. Arg. Istis nihil obstat quo minus opera Dominus tanquam causas inferiores amplectatur. Sed unde id? Nempe quos su• misericordia aeternae vitae haereditati destinavit, eos ordinaria sua dispensation per bona opera inducit in ejus possessionem. Quod in ordine dispensationis praecedit, posterioris causam nominat.Christs blood is the right of merite to life eternall, good works the way and meanes by which we come to the possession thereof. Calvinus Instr. l. 3. c. 15. n. 21. Respo. ad 1. Arg. Istis nihil obstat quo minus opera Dominus tanquam causas inferiores amplectatur. Sed unde id? Nempe quos su• misericordia aeternae vitae haereditati destinavit, eos ordinaria sua dispensatione per bona opera inducit in ejus possessionem. Quod in ordine dispensationis praecedit, posterioris causam nominat.
