Md. Salim To. 2. Excg. Confcjj f1irg. Art. 4. Pak 883, Md. MarcO. in Math. s. ( 314 ) be currant, is a modiacation ofit, and part of the Condition; and without it he fhall no more be freed then if he paid none at all. So if God fay fHe that believeth with a working Faith, ilia be jullified j that it be working, is as neceffary a part of the Con. dition as that it be Faith. And it is but the Conditionality that I affert. * Keckerrnan. Sylian.rbeolog, lib 3.deJOT. ca. 7. Pag.429, 13. IT is commonly Afferted, [ That Works juftifie us Decla- rativcly at judgement.] !:'-o Keckerrnan faith " Metony-. mically Juftification in the Hebrew idiot& is taken for Evidence, Declaration, and Probation, whereby it is made known to others that our fins are remitted : and fo the Apofile ?areas following the Hebrew form of fpeech, ufeth the word !uftification; fo that to be juecified by works is the fame as to be declared by good Works that we are jufified.] Here note, T. T hat our Divines do generally teach againft the Papifts, that this is the rnoft proper fenfe of the word and that faith it fell is faid to luitifie but ins;enjuforeV; , ( principally fay fome, only fay others.) 2. Note, that the thing it felf is evident, that a Sentence is but a Ridges Decifive Declaration (andno doubt it is no other De. claration that they can mean.) So that it is plain that they do teach tha a man is Tuffified by Works in the molt proper fenfe , when they fay that they Inflifie us at Judgement Declaratively,or are the reafon or cattle of Gods judicial declaring us juit. firumler. Theolog. li. 3 p. Cl. Parmus, in Mat. 2.5. ubi Bilhop Vfhers Body of Divi- nitY,Pag.449. Edit. ult. 14. T is commonly afferted [That Works are the Ratio Sen- ii. tentix, the Reafonof the Sentenceof our Abfolution 3 I know none that deny this. So * Brumler.Ratio Abfolutionu tfl ab enumeratione operum, Sze. So Pardus in Mat. Bifhop V.Ihent words ( in his Body of Divinity) are thefe, [The. Godly (hall be pronounced juft,becaufe their Works, though imperfedidoprove their faith,d-c.to be a true Faith, as working by love in all parts of Obedience.] So commonly others. Nowwhat is this leis then I have faid ? I ever faid, Obedience is no caufe of our Confiitu- five
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