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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 14
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tes plura ad rationem meriti, vere ac proprie sic dicti requirant,
quam Romano-Catholici, et Concil. Trident. Si id tantum ve-
rum et proprie sic dictam meritum est, quod, ut protestantes
volunt, sit opus plane nostrum, indebitum ipsi Deo, utile et
ex se, et per se intrinse ce aequale, et proportionatum mercedi
concedunt Scotistae aliique strictiori ratione justorum opera vera
et propria merita non esse, Walerb. l. d. 922. 930. 940. 941. 943.
947. si conditionibus istis stricte inhaerendum, rationem meriti
aeque ab operibus Adami ac nostris, imo etiam aliquatenus
a merito ipsius Christi mediatoris removeri. contrasi ratio-
nem veri meriti sufficit, quod Romano Catholici requirunt,
ut sit actio libera viatoris in gratia conslituti ex gratia proce-
dens, oui accedente divina promissione debeatur argumentum
gratiae et oloriae. Negare Protestantes nequeunt opera justo-
rum esse viatorum in oratia constitutorum, seu filiorum Dei, a-
etiones liberas bonas, imo preliosas ut Hopf. loquitur, haberes
promissionem hujus et futurae vita, ex ea debitum fidelitatis
nasci, proemium seu mercedem eorum esse augmentum gratiae
etgloriae. Huls. Brev. suppl. c. 12. n. 12. p. 181. Luis vero ho-
rum in explicanda ratione meriti felicior sit, ad fidem eatho-
licam non pertinet, nec Concil. Trident. determinavit, quod
verum