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Doty.
No
works
of
ours can mci
it
falvation.
Objetí.
e4nfw.
Even
the
ju-
ftified
merit
nothing.
Fjafan r.
2.
3.
ObjeËE.
e/lnfw.
4.
.Ephelianr,
Chap.z.
V
s
R,9,
in
way
of
amplification to
íhew, that
no
works
are
of
venue
to
bring
us
to
falvation. This
the Apofile fetteth down
in
oppofition to
the
corrupt judgement
of
the world
, affirming
that
all
falvation
in hea-
ven,
and affurance
of
it here,
is
not
by works, but
of
the
meer
grace
of God
:
And
this he proves
by the end
of
the
grace
of
God,
which
is
to exclude
all
glory
and
boafling
in
our felves.
Here then
obferve,
that
Nothing
which wedo,doth merit
our
fa
lva-
tian,
or
it
a caufe
procuring
it
unto us.
Thus the
Apofile doth
every
where
flint
out the
defers of works
from being
caufes
of
falvation.
God
even
in
ibraham
hath (hewed
us
an
enfample, who
had
the
in-
heritance given him, not upon working, but beleeving
;
His
Faith
aas
accounted
to
him
for
righteoufneJfe,
Rom.4.a2.
Gal.
3.6.
And that
of
Sarah and Hagar ;
How Hagan
Jens
could not
inherit,
that
is, they
that
are
according to the Covenant
of
the
Law,
could
not
by
the
works
of
the Law
be
juflified,
Gal.4.23.
But the Papifis
will
cxcept,that they
are
works
of
the
Ceremoniall
Law;
or
if of
the
Morali
Law, yet
fuch
as
literally
onely,
and
not
fpiritually, have conformity with it.
But
in
vlbraham
this
is
refuted, whofe works (now being
juffified)
arc
debarred from being
his
righteoufneffe before
God,or
giving
title
to the true
Canaan.
Again, the
A
poflle
doth beat
all
fuch
exceptions
flat
to the ground
in
this
Text,
letting
us
plainly
fee,
that
he
under
-
fiandeth thofe works which
we
do
now
created in
Chr',
Ephef.a.to.
And this Legali fentence
of
Do
and
live,
in
which tenure the
Law
runneth, the Apoftle reached' that
it
bath
no
place in
the
beleevers.
But it
will
not be
amifl'o,
r.
to
demonftrate it by reafon,
a.
to
clear
the
main
Obje&ions,
and fo
to come to the
life.
Our works
even
of
Sanetification
cannot merit our falvation,
be-
caufe
they
are
the motions
of
us
already
Caved,
they
are the
effects
of
falvation already revealed
in
us,
not the
caufes
of
that
we
have
not.
The
Scripture knoweth not but one onely way
to
falvation,
which
is
fucceffively
promoted,
Whom
god
juffifreth, them
he
gleri.
fresh,
Rom.
8.3e.
Secondly, works
are irnperfct
t
in
us;
the
Aeth
and fpirit fo (hiving,
that the
aftion
even
of
that which
is
predominant
is
brought
forth
(by
reafon
of
this
tirite)
with great imperfeetion.
Infants are faved, but
they
have no merits
;
for
the habits
of
holi-
neffe
are not meritorious,
as
being freely
received
:
Salvation
there-
fore
is
grounded on
Come
other thing then works, or
Infants
could
not
be heirs
of
heaven.
It
will be
granted
it
is
fo
;
it
is
both
an
inheritance
as
we are
Sons,
and
a
reward deferved,
as
workers.
But
this
will
not
hand,
thefe
two
titles one
overthrow the
other;
zf
of'the
Law, then
not
of Faith, Ga1.3.r4.
That
for which
we are accounted
righteous, for that
we are
faved
alfo;
in
what our
righreoufnetï'e
is
grounded,
in
that
our falvation
is
grounded;
for,
what
is
our
juftifying!
It
is
the
acquiring
of
us
from