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 he has nothing to cb/m. In these circumstances, was not only mm in but also every ,m,l and of emi, no cread berg, however pure, holy, subminive, and ob- ent, c have y  on iM Creor. From m it8 ing  oly deve d by  t being i8 8ustued;  m, there* ore, by ght it belon; d wver he  me it cable o;, he h a ght M . As well ght the e be sused M be a   e eect pruced by i as the Crew, in y ccse, be a bt m &e eure. "To  svation, is to ve an evuiat for emal glory; f  man can be saved by hi8 works, s clam is  vino ; and if justice me a cut of em glo for obedience, then is oce must be in met ual to at glo. Juice deman what is d; it can require no more; it will te no 1e88. Man's therefore, oed in ti, whic however long, is only a moment when comped to emity, must  considered, on ts decree,  m tk  e ss and utst beatt wch O c eonf on an telgent being, wch is absd. Therefor, no g  - � dience in t c met an ete glo. "An: m  any tng from , we must act a8 be  of him, and ve him th on wch he h no  c: for  we cannot purcse one pa of a man's propey by ng him - oer  of hi8 o pm, so we cannot pche from O any �ing at is h , by that  wch he h n an eal . To merit glo, &erefore, a man must not only act iptl  but so with pos d es of wch od is neither author r supper; for the wers which he h created, and which he u hol, are already his ; and to their utmost use and sedco he h   At. ow m i8 a  d  creature; h nong but what he h rcged; cannot even  without the suppling energy of ; and can return him nog at is t k o  d therefore c met nothing. On t8 und, also, the d tne of so  t t   is demonstrably th impsible a absurd. "e more:   ts &nl ts, man must  commensum  such ac:   nlg, res inni t  the acre; and inite met in the ts requs united  s  the t; for no ing of limited and nite we can o m of hnite woh; but m, in hi8 best este,  a being of limi we, whoy depent, even for these, on the ener of anoer  .consuently, cannot perform act8 of nfini womb; and, ofo, can in no way whaver merit, by s obence or his works, that nite d eternal weight of glo of which the Scptus s. On the od, erefore, of the dependant and mited power8 of m, the doctne of  glorification by the met of work8 is 8elf-con--eton*, irascible, and absurd. "All e proceng easoning is founded on the supsition that man i in a sta put ; having  fl fr nal d  ned ainst  reator: and even in those circumc we find that s pure and st]es8 oienee cnot pch an end- leas glo. "But we must now consider m in his est circumsce; 1

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