and life everlasting ; while the efficient cause is a which no man was ever justified; lastly, the sole [Chap. 7.] cause is his most beloved only-begotten Son, our Lord are not only reputed, but are truly called, and are, just, cause, indeed, is the glory of God and of Jesus Christ, tion for us by his most holy Passion on the wood of Of this Justification the causes are these : the final just, that, namely, with which we, being endowed by Baptism, which is the sacrament of faith, without ceeding charity wherewith he loved UB, won Justifica- merciful God who washes and sanctifies freely, signing, every one as he wills, and according to each one's and anointing man with the Holy Spirit of promise, receiving justice within us, each one according to his Jesus Christ, who, when we were enemies, for the ex- the cross, and made satisfaction for us unto God the For, although no one can be just but he to whom the him, are renewed in the spirit of our mind, and we 88 ROMAN CATHOLICISM he himself is just, but that whereby he maketh us formal cause is the justice of God, not that whereby CAUSE OF JUSTIFICATION own measure, which the Holy Ghost distributes to proper disposition and co-operation. Father; the instrumental cause is the sacrament of who is the pledge of our inheritance. The meritorious