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After long wait my second video "Presbyterial Succession in the Thought of Saint Jerome (A Refutation of Since33)" will be uploaded tomorrow 8:00 AM EST. I lay out the positive case for Saint Jerome affirming Presbyterial Succession contra @sincead33 youtu.be/nHCWg11RmHg

"The final question remains: Whether God rewards good works out of mere liberality beyond what is condign. For the common opinion of the theologians affirms this consistently, as evident from Saint Thomas, Saint Bonaventure, Scotus, Durandus, and others” Bellarmine Opera 6, 5,19

"life eternal is to be proposed to those working well unto the end, and hoping in God, both as a grace mercifully promised to the sons of God through Jesus Christ, and as a reward which is according to the promise of God Himself" Session VI Chapter XVI of the Council of Trent

“However, just as in the matter itself [on merit], Protestants hold the same view on this controversy as the Scotists, so that neither of these parties can be condemned by the Roman Church, or is condemned” Johannes Fabricius, Consideratio variarum controversiarum

Those things are all dope

"if the worth or condignity of the works be altogether ascribed to God's mere gratuitous promise, and to His gracious acceptation of them-that this controversy might easily not only be arranged, but even altogether cease between moderate men." William Forbes

“Whereby we may see how rightly it hath been observed by Vasquez, that divers of those whom he accounteth Catholics do ‘differ’ from us ‘only in words,’ [on merit] but ‘agree in deed.’” Archbishop Ussher

"As for those who heretofore have denied the absolute merit of condignity, and have held either merits of congruity only, or only ex pacto, they are censured by some of the learned among them to have differed from us in words, but in deed to have agreed with us." George Downame

"this is the sense of Scotus and of one half of the Papists, (for still you are together by the ears) who say that Merit of Condignity is but ex pacto by vertue of Gods Promise."

"We do not doubt, and piously believe, that the regenerating and sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit worked in her to the greatest degree possible for any human being, although the precise moment of her sanctification and spiritual birth is known only to God." J.H. Heidegger

"the Scotists and many others say that merit arises only ex pacto, from God's promise; and to be meritorious is no more than to be a work which God has promised a reward to: and do any of us deny this?" Richard Baxter, An End of Doctrinal Controversies, p. 296-297

"the regenerate merit eternal life because, walking in the way of the Divine commandments, they do, at last, being rewarded by God, attain to the crown of eternal glory" John Davenant

“In the evening of this life, I shall appear before you with empty hands, for I do not ask you, Lord, to count my works. All our justice is blemished in your eyes. I wish, then, to be clothed in your own justice and to receive from your love the eternal possession of yourself.”

Faith alone rightly understood is referring to a faith formed by charity

Cardinal Francisco de Toledo, biblical commentator and the first Jesuit Cardinal on the meaning of Faith being imputed as righteousness

Roman Apologists Adrian and Peter van Walenburch on why faith is said most properly to apprehend Christ's righteousness

Fourteenth Master of the Dominican Order Hervaeus Natalis on the nature of the imputation of Christ's merit

Wise words of caution from Iain Murray on Richard Baxter… To open his autobiography, and some of his other writings, is suddenly to see the seventeenth century with 100% magnification. The man is real; we soon begin to treat him as a friend; and what I am arguing is that the…