Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsRomans 10
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The Justice of faith
◦ The justice which is of faith, reacheth to the life to come, making man assured of the truth of such Articles as concern the same. as, of Christ's Ascension to heaven, of his Descending to Hell, of his coming down to be Incarnate, and his Resurrection and return again to be glorified: by which his actions we be pardoned, justified, and saved, as by the Law we could never be.
- ◦ Justice of faith.
Romans 10:8
The word of faith.
[1] The word of faith is the whole Law of Christ, concerning both life and doctrine, grounded upon this, that Christ is our Saviour, & that he is risen again. Which point (as all other) must both be believed in heart, and also be confessed by mouth. For though a man be justified inwardly when he hath the virtues of faith, hope, and charity from God: yet if occasion be given, he is also bound to confess with his mouth, and by all his external actions, without shame or fear of the world, that which he inwardly believeth: or else he cannot be saved. Which is against certain [2] old Heretics [3] that taught, a man might say or do what he would, for fear or danger, so that he kept his faith in heart.
- 1 Open confession & protestation of our faith is sometime necessary.
- 2 Euseb. li. 6. c. 31. histor. Eccles.
- 3 Helchesetæ.
Romans 10:14
How shall they invocate?
◦ This maketh not (as Heretics pretend) against invocation of Saints: the Apostle saying nothing else, but that they cannot invocate Christ as their Lord and Master, in whom they do not believe, and whom they never heard of. For he speaketh of Gentiles or Pagans, who could not invocate him, unless they did first believe in him. To the due invocation of Christ, we must know him and our duties to him. And so is it true also that we cannot pray to our B. Lady nor any Saint in heaven, till we believe and know their persons, dignity, and grace, and trust that they can help us. But if our adversaries think that we cannot invocate them, because we cannot believe in them: let them understand that the Scripture useth also this speech, to believe in men: and it is the very Hebrew phrase, which they should not be ignorant of that brag thereof so much. Exod. 14, 31. They believed in God and in Moyses. And 3. Paral. 20, 20. in the Hebrew. Ep. ad Philem. v. 5. And the ancient Fathers did read in the Creed indifferently, I believe in the Catholic Church, and, I believe the Catholic Church. Conc. Nicen. apud Epiphan. in fine Ancorat. Hieron. contr. Lucif. Cyril. Hieros. Catech. 18.
- ◦ The place alleged against invocation of Saints, answered.
Romans 10:15
unless they be sent.
[1] This place of the Apostle invincibly condemneth all the preachings, writings, ordinances, innovations and usurpations of Church, pulpit, & whatsoever our new Evangelists have intruded themselves and entered into by the window: shewing that they be every one from the highest to the lowest, false prophets, running and usurping, being never lawfully called. Which is so evident in the Heretics of our days that the Calvinists confess it in themselves, and say that there is an exception to be made in them, because they found the state of the Church interrupted. [2]
- 1 Preachers not lawfully called nor sent.
- 2 Confes. des Eglis. de France.
Romans 10:20
That asked not.
[1] That Christ was found of those that never asked after him, it proveth that the first grace and our first justification is without merits. That God called so continually and earnestly by his Prophets and other his signs and wonders, upon the Jews, and they withstood it: [2] free-will is proved, and that God would have men saved, and that they be the cause of their own damnation themselves.
- 1 The first justification of mere grace.
- 2 Free-will.
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Romans 10:2
The justice of God.
◦ The justice of God, is that which God giveth us through Christ. The Jews' own or proper justice, is that which they had or challenged to have of themselves and by their own strength, holpen only by the knowledge of the Law without the help or grace of Christ.