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Consequently, if natural sin is the author of so many evils, Christ’s grace certainly does not produce justification by forgiving many offenses. It carries out its work of kindness by pardoning one sin. When it promises to do so, it will make its promises good if it heals the things said to have been introduced through sin’s wound. But if, even after the remedies it has brought, the same succession of diabolical diseases persists, we owe thanks for its good intention and forgiveness for its presumption: it lacked the power to cure the inborn plagues, not the will (compare Romans 5:16) (Romans 5:16).

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Ac per hoc, si est naturale peccatum tantorum auctor malorum, gratia Christi nequaquam multa delicta donando iustificationem operatur, sed uni peccato indulgendo negotium benignitatis exsequitur; quod cum se spondet acturam, fidem faciet promissis, si haec quae dicuntur per peccati vulnus invecta curaverit; ceterum si et post remedia quae detulit eadem tamen diabolicorum morborum series perseverat, voto eius gratificatio, praesumptioni venia debetur, quia ad curandum innatas pestes virtus ei defuit, non voluntas.