DOCT. V. That eternall life, which is given to the elect, is called, and is a reward, but al together fully bestowed, & in no man∣ner due to us, saving through Christ.
FOr although what the elect shall then receive is the meer gift of
The whole body of Christian religion, by Hieron. Zanchius. Translated out of Latine by D. Ralph Winterton.
About this Item
- Title
- The whole body of Christian religion, by Hieron. Zanchius. Translated out of Latine by D. Ralph Winterton.
- Author
- Zanchi, Giralamo, 1516-1590.
- Publication
- London, :: Printed by John Redmayne,
- 1659.
- Rights/Permissions
-
To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
- Subject terms
- Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
- Christianity -- Early works to 1800.
- Link to this Item
-
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A97309.0001.001
- Cite this Item
-
"The whole body of Christian religion, by Hieron. Zanchius. Translated out of Latine by D. Ralph Winterton." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A97309.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 1, 2024.
Pages
Page 396
God obtained by the merits of Christ alone, yet we are not ignorant that it is, and is truly called a reward seeing; the Lord Iesus hath daigned to give it that term, namely a free reward, & seeing even the good works of the godly, & all the causes from whence they proceed, are the free gifts of God, free election, free redemption, free calling, faith, justification, rege∣neration, forgivness of sins, & lastly the pardoning of the defects and weaknesses wherewith our good works themselves are attended, & on the other side the free imputation of the perfect obedience of Christ, by which our imperfect is cloathed and rendred most acceptable to God; so that it followes, that if we will speak properly, the reward is not due to us, for our own works sake consider'd in themselves, but only for the im∣puted merits of Christ.