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the beginning of human salvation, the foundation and the root of all justification, without which it is im- grace. [Chap. 8.] FAITH AND WORKS 89 fication. For, if it be a grace, it is not now by works ; [Chap. 7.] incurred, through the offence of that prevarication, the of his sons ; but we are said to be justified freely be- 1. If any one does not confess that the first man, cause none of those things which precede justification, And whereas the Apostle saith that man is justified in that sense which the perpetual consent of the Catholic possible to please God and to come into the fellowship therefore said to be justified by faith, because faith is \vith which God had previously threatened him, and, justice wherein he had been constituted, and that he by faith and freely, those words are to be understood whether faith or works, merit the grace itself of justi- God in Paradise, immediately lost the holiness and wrath and indignation of God, and consequently death, Adam, by his disobedience, lost for himself and for us, that so they may bear it before the judgment-seat of DECREE CONCERNING ORIGINAL SIN Adam, when he had transgressed the commandment of otherwise, as the same Apostle says, grace is no more Church hath held and expressed; to wit, that we are our Lord Jesus Christ, and may have life everlasting.

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