374 Love bee not Conditions of 7uftiftcation. C i A P. 30, the fubjed of fire; & fo may it be with moral qualihc arions : many a man may be morally qualified to be a fit match for fuch a woman; or a woman for fuch a man; & yet the marriage Relation never be made up betwixt them : But this cannot be faid of faith , whereby the marriage is made, & the perfon is a tually juf{ifiedt, & not a bare fit patient to be luttified. C H A P. X XX. Whether Love, purpofe of Obedience , or perfeverance be Conditions of Jullification. BY what is faid, in our foregoing difcourfe , we may know, what is to be anfwered unto thefe QuefIìons , fo that we need not infift long, in the difcufing of them. Some of late lay downe for a ground ( and hereby give occafion to difcuf lhefe nd ,filch likc queftions ) that what- ever is or may be called. a .íhe` ok t enant of Grace, is, upon that ac- count , & may be called , the Condition of Juftification ; thus confounding the whole order of the Gofpel , & making all duties, required of fuch, as . are in Covenant , & ordained of God for other ends & ufes, toberequired- as Conditions of entering in Covenant , and to have the fame ufe and end in & unto juftification , which faith hath ; contrary to exprefs Scripture, faying, that we are juftified by faith, & not by works of Rightcoufnefs ,. which we do,. and contrary to the whole methode of the Gofpel, & grounds laid down therein , for an acceptable performance of obedience. , Asto Love , Papifi's make it the forme ( as they (peak ) of faith,. notin it felt limply confidered , but in order to Ju(iification & Salvation thereby,. faying that faith without Love is dead And it is true, that true & faving faith worketh by Love : and that faith cannot be called Saving or Ju(lifying, which doth not excite unto acts of Love, and many may deceive themfelves with a faith , that will not be found , when tried, to be of the right {tamp,: as the Apoftles gamer teacheth . But yet they put no fpecifick difference, commonly, betwixt this dead faith & faith informed ;:for both (as to what is effential & intrinfik to faith,which they hold to be an afl'ent unto all things,. revealed by the Lord unto men upon the account of the Veracity and Au- thority of the Revealer) are one & the fame ; fo as one and the fame faith may be fometime dead , when to wit, not working by Love, & fometime lively , when formed with Love. But of thefe things we need not here fpeak : only we fee, that with them, Love is in a manner more neceffary unto Juflification, than faith; & mutt be looked on, as a neceffary condi- tion thereunto, even as that, without which faith can do nothing. And toconfute this here is but vaine . feing it shall ferve nothing to our pur- pofe; becaufe with them juflification is the very fame , we call Sancti- fication. B.ut:others =, who have more found and'.diftina apprehenfións of juftiBca aion, tellus,. That love is the condition of juftification, becaufe. a condi- A tioa
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