Thesium de vita aeterna et eius haeredibus decades X

7. For since life depends on righteousness, just as we are justified by faith, so also we are vivified by the same. And it can in no way happen that he who remains devoid of righteousness becomes a participant of eternal life.

8. And for that very reason we are said to "lay hold of" eternal life, 1 Tim. 6, verse 12; to "have" it, John 3, verses 15-16. For faith is the foundation original: ὑπόστασις, the confidence of those things which are hoped for, and the proof original: ἔλεγχος of those things which are not seen. Heb. 11, verse 1. Among these, however, eternal life holds the chief place.

Ends 9. The proximate and subordinate end is the possession of the Inheritance, which can neither perish, nor be contaminated, nor fade, and which is kept for us in heaven, who are kept by the power of God through faith, to the salvation which is prepared to be revealed in the last time. 1 Pet. 1, verses 4 & 5.

10. The ultimate end, however, is the glory of the grace of the living God. According to that saying of Paul: "And He raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavens in Christ Jesus: that He might show to the succeeding ages the supreme riches of His grace, in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus." Eph. 2, verses 6-7.

DISPUTATION III.
On the internal causes of eternal life.
HEINRICH JUSTUS, OF BASEL.

Matter 1. He finally is the Matter of eternal life for us, who is also the Matter of all our salvation. But Jesus Christ alone is the Matter of our restoration and salvation. Reason: For in Him alone, with every spiritual and saving blessing, God the Father has blessed us. Eph. 1, verse 3. Therefore the matter of life is Christ living and reigning in us.

2. Therefore Christ is said to be and remain in His faithful, as in members, John 15, verse 4; to live, Gal. 2, verse 20; to grow into a perfect man, etc., Eph. 4, verse 13.

3. For just as He removes the evils by which we are oppressed, and supplies the goods which we lack, He liberates us from sin and death, and makes us participants of His righteousness and life.

4. Just as through one Adam sin, offense, and death had entered into the World, and pervaded all men: so by the benefit of Jesus Christ, the gift of righteousness, reconciliation, and life, has been given to all the faithful. Rom. 5.

Form 5. The Form is the power or faculty of living to God, just as Christ lives to Him. Rom. 6, verse 10. For we are ingrafted original: σύμφυτοι, whether you look at the death or the resurrection and life of Christ. Same chapter, verses 5 & 8. And the sacrament of this ingrafting original: συμφυτεύσεως is Baptism.