(386) So pag. I i. C The walking in the Light,as he is in theLight, is- that Qualification whereby we become immediately 'capable of Chrifts righteoufnefs, or actual participants of his propitiation which is the fole immediate caufeof our Juftification taken for Remiffion of fins, or actual approbation with God. And pag. 73. Works then, or a Purpofe to walk with God , Juftifie as the Pafsive qualification of the (abject capable of Ju, itification or as the qualification of that Faith which Juftifi'- ethi TN the first of thefe fayings, Mr. Ball gives as much, and the, very fame place to Works of Obedience as I do though he give more to Faith ( at leaft in words; ) and by that means puts a greater difference between them. Yet I confefs them to differ in the nature of the acts as much as he doth ; Faith being the Recipient Conditional act, and Obedience not Recipient : And in the Office I maintain that Faith hath fo far the precedency,that not only without the Caufality, or Conditionality,but alfo with-- out the prefence of Works of outward Obedience, it is fufficient (as the Conditionfto our being put into a Juilified state. 2. And therefore Mr. Ball in his fecond palfage faith more then I do for walking in the Light ; though 1 believe , he meant no more. 3. And in the third paffagehe faith the fameas I : For he mean- eth not that Works are Pafsive in their own nature : that were an abfurdity and plain contradiction : but that as to the effect of Juftification they are no caufes, but Pafsive qualifications of the fubjett, making it morally capable thereof. And he puts both Works, and Apurpofe to walkwith God becaufe A purpofe and Covenant to obey ( which is heart-fubjeaion) is enough to our being firft Juftified ; but it muff be actual Obedience that mutt concurr to the continuance of that Rate and to our fi- nal Abfolution , as Mr. Ball, firft paffage exprefly affirm ed?. 28,, Mr,
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