mereri

Nor let any one here object the frequent use of the terms mereri and meritum by the fathers and other ancient church-writers; for they use them not in a sense importing claim upon the score of strict justice, but only as they signify the actual obtainment of any thing from God upon the stock of free promise, by coming up to the conditions of it: which by no means reaches that sense of the word which we have been hitherto disputing against.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.

Accipe horum pauca Lector, qu� fidem minim� mereri existimarim.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

Cernis igitur, Lector benigne, qu鄊 iniurium habeamus notarium, dicentem: Adulterium et scortationes in Islandia peccati aut sceleris nomen non mereri.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

Cernis igitur, Lector benigne, quàm iniurium habeamus notarium, dicentem: Adulterium et scortationes in Islandia peccati aut sceleris nomen non mereri.

A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas

Accipe horum pauca Lector, quæ fidem minimè mereri existimarim.

A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas

Et licet de Patre et Filio aliqua sensissent Platonici, Spiritus tamen tumidus et humani appetitor favoris santificationem mentis divinae mereri non potuit, et ubi ad profunditatem sacramentorum deventum est, omnis eorum caligavit subtilitas, nec potuit infidelitas sanctitudini propinquare: [5456] 1

Pneumatologia

The expression "vere mereri" shows that the three objects mentioned above can be merited in the true and strict sense of the word, viz., de condigno.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman

"If any one saith ... that the justified man by good works ... does not truly merit [vere mereri] increase of grace eternal life, and the attainment of that eternal life — if so be, however, that he depart in grace — and also an increase in glory; let him be anathema."

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman

At quisquis eam inhabitare uelle desierit, pariter desinit etiam mereri.

The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy

Item docent, quod fides illa debeat bonos fructus parere, et quod oporteat bona opera, mandata a Deo, facere, propter voluntatem Dei, non ut confidamus, per ea opera justificationem coram Deo mereri.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.