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Against the Iesuits and their Topick Argu∣ments, whereby they confirm Inherent Righ∣teousness out of Aristotle.
WHAT, say they, have you not at any time read that form of * 1.1 reasoning in Aristotle? He is righ∣teous, therefore he is endued with righteousness; Such a man is learned, therefore he hath learning? We have read it, Say they, in the Topicks of Aristotle. That is true indeed. But have ye not also at any time read in the Epistles of Paul, these forms of speaking, Christ is our Righteousness? We are made the righteousness of God by him? faith is imputed unto righteous∣ness? * 1.2 the Iust shall live by faith? What then? Shall we believe Ari∣stotle more than Paul? We believe Fishermen, Saith Ambrose, not Logicians. And should we translate our Faith, which we owe to God with faithful Abraham unto men that are Sophisters? But now, lest those Iesuits should say, that they are not answered, let us look more nearly into the force of their argu∣ment, and pierce them through with their own Dart. They deny that ever this external attribu∣tion was heard of since the World was; that a thing should receive a name extrinsically from qualities, that can be within, so that they should be accounted righteous before God, not by inherent qualities,