( 90 ) and fo 7,,tmey takes it : fometimes more ftrialy for only fuch Atiions a. a Labourer performeth for his Wages, or which make the Reward tobenot of grace, but of debt. So Paul tells you that he underftandeth or ufeth the term, Rom. 4.4. ufually there- fore calling themWorks of the La*. Now he that excludes Works only under ads notion, doth not thereforeexclude them under every notion. Where you add that Pauls oppofition betWeenPaith andany thing of ours: I anfwer. i. Is not Faith ours as much as Love, &c. ? 2. Are not Knowledge, Words, Works, ours, by all which God faith, we are ¡unified ? 3. There is no fuch Scripture where Paul makes any fuch onofitiOn: but onlyhe renounceth his own Righteotifnefs which is of the Law, Phil. 3. 8,9 and any thing of our own that may be called work, in the firifter fence. Your fecond is, becaufe Paul excludes Abrahams works, &c. Anfwer. i. You make my iertiton to be works that are of Grace] and here again, works that flow from grace, and fay, Abrahams were not by meerflrength of the Law : But thefe are no words of mine ; nor is it candid to feign them to be mine but that I impute it to your haffe : I believe you remembred fo well the words of Andradius, Bellarmine and other Papifts, that they dropped fromyour pen inbane in head of mine; nor is my fence any whit like theirs ; for J fpeak not of the effi- cient caufe of works, (Nature or Grace ) nor the meer com- mand requiring them,when I fpeak of Law and Gofpel : but the full entire Covenant orLaw confining of all its parts, and fo making our Ads the conditions of the Punifbment or Re- ward as,I have opened over and over in my Book. 2. You ask, wire Abrahams work:n opplition to t h.t, c? Anfwer. z. Pam/ excludes all() works in co-ordination with Chrift,and fo do I. 7. Yea and works fuppofed to be fubord mate to Chrift, which are not capable of a real fubordination, 3. but not filch as are truly fubordinate, from being fuch conditions as is before faid. 4.You feem to me to rniftake Paul mucti,as if he took it for granted, that Abraham had fach works which Paul difputeth againft, but could not be ¡unified by them : Whereas I doubt not to fay ,that 'Paulcontrarily fuppofeth that ?Abraham bad no fuch Works, which make the reward to be of Debt, and not
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