The Possession of Life
We must accurately distinguish between a right to life, and the possession of life. The former must so be assigned to the obedience of Christ, that all the value of our holiness may be entirely excluded. But certainly our works, or rather these, which the Spirit of Christ worketh in us, and by us, contribute something to the latter.
Herman Witsius, Conciliatory or irenical animadversions on the controversies agitated in Britain: under the unhappy names of antinomians and neonomians, trans. Thomas Bell (Londom: W. Land, 1807) 161-162