hope! O slender consolation! how shall Gods iustice be sa∣tisfied, and his righteousnes contented? Returne to thy rest,Psal. 116. O my soule, and put thy trust in him, who hath redeemed thee with a price: such a price as is answerable, yea, aboue the commutatiue iustice of God. For Christ hath fully paide my debt, and with a sufficient valuable summe made me the heire of his kingdome. And of this doctrine the Lord hath commanded all his Ministers to be the preachers;Esay 40..Speake comfortably to Ierusalem, and cry vnto her, that her war∣fare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath re∣ceiued of the Lords hand double for all her sinnes. The least droppe of his innocent bloud is a sufficient satisfaction for the sins of a thousand vvorlds. And here by the way let me tell them, that the distinction of merite, of dignity, of condignity, and congruity, is an idle distinction. For if the workes of the regenerate doe not fully deserue at Gods hand in the ba∣lance of his strict iustice, then the works of the vnregenerate doe as much as they: for by congruity the works of the vnre∣generate doe merit also.CHAP. LXXII. That with the Romanists good works are meritorious which bee not done in charity; contrary also to the third Limitation.IN the former chapter I haue shewed vvith what trifles, with what toyes, the Romanists perswade themselues the heauenly kingdome may be merited. Now let vs come nearer the Limitation it selfe, and consider vvhether they doe in deed obserue their owne rule, and verely perswade them∣selues that works are not meritorious except they bee done in charitie: and surely sundry reasons there are which doe plainly teach the contrarie.First, their publique worship, which is the rule of religion, maketh the vvorks of such, meritorious towards God, in whome there is no capacity of actuall charitie: for they make men to merite before they are borne, and after they are dead. Of the Prophet Ieremie, in the Masse on Passion 0