('Co) you had, I was not the maker ofit. It was called caufa flee gun non, before I was born : I mull comply with common lan- guage, or be filent : efpecialy when I tell you I take it for no Caufe. You give me fuch justice as the boat} of the Crown Tavern in C,tlear_fi:e had, who ( as Seed faith,) was hanged for haying merrily, that his .ion was Heir of the Crown, and his expolition would not lavehis lie. I pray you hereafter re- move more then Efficiency and Merit. I takenot works to be either the material or formal caufe of Juftificition, no nor the find, though you(in the words before cited ) affirm it filch. Who then gives more to works, youor I ? The final caufe is fo cal- led, becaufe it caufeth us to choofe the means to it ; Juftifica- tion is not a means of our iagng, but an a& of God.Therefore works are not properly the end of it;as to us. Arid yet let me fay this toyou,left you fhould mifiake me : M vehemently as I difown all true caufality of works to our Ju(tifi_ cation,I intend not to fall out with all men that call them caufes. As firft, Not with Pifcstor nor filch other that call them caufes of our final abfolution and falvatíon.Secondly, Nor with thofe that call them meritorious in the fame fenfe as the Fathers did, though they unfitly ufe the word, Thirdly, Nor with thofe that will fay, that becaufe they pleafe God, and fo are theob- jecRof his complacency and will , they may therefore,fpeaking after the manner of men,be called Procatarai&e caufes ofhis aft of Juf ification : and fo that the Atniablenefs and defirablenefs of faith and holinefs, is the caufe why he afiigned them to this Noble place and office. Fourthly , Nor with them that fay, faith is a moral or a Metaphorical, paffive or active Inftrument of J uftification. Though I fay not as thefe men, I will not quar- rel with them. Preface. Ent 1 need not run to the ; for my ,rgumentr militate againY. Works at Works j,sßÿying under any pretended Noti>n Wh.ttfoever. Anfwer. By the help of this, I fhall interpret all your Ar- guments. And if fo,then they militate againft the act of faith jultifying under the pretended notion of an Inftrument, unlefs you
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