4g1 By works which Paul exeludet b , C H A P, 6. not againft the merite ex congruo, as feparated from the works themfelves, whereupon it is founded. As the following Argurnents will evince. There- fore far lefs dot h he difpute only againft the fond & foolish conceite of the merite excondigno. z. It is Itrange , that the Apostle should difpute against that , which he loth never once mentione, in his difpute, or in his Conclulions. Ile every where mentioneth works & the Law, & the works of the Law; butno where Lnentioneth he this merite of works ,as the thing hedifputethagainst, asabftract.ed & diftinguished from the worksthemfelves. 3. And that place , which they think, giveth force countenance unto their itnaginations, vii. Rom. 4: 4. Now to bim that weretb is the rerouting recloned.of grace , bt.tofdebt, isdireetlyagainfthem: for , there the Apo - ftle sheweth that worksare excluded,& all works ( for there is no diainEtioa made are excluded; becaufe , then the reward should be of debt: shewing, that if works have any place , in the matter of juftification , debt muff have place alfo; but be.caufe debt 'lath no place , but grace. ( which two are in- confiftent & incompatible) therefore all works are excluded. And to think, that the meaning of the Apostle is, now to bitn , that worketh , with a con- ceite of merite, attending his work , the reward is reckoned of debt, is to adde to the word of God, to pervert the Apoftles Argument , & tocontra- di& the (cope & cohefion of the words; as ha:h been shown elfewhere , far lefs can any hence inferre a reftric`tion of works to Inch only as make the re- ward of debt : for then the reward might be reckoned to him , that wor- keth, & yet be reckoned of grace & not of debt , & thus the A.poftles Argu- ment, should be ma.nifeftly, falfe , & a plaine Paralogif ne: which wete wic= kednefs & blafphemie to afert. 4. The Apostle excluded,, in as plaine termes, as can he , all the works of the Law: hut even fuch works, as are performed without this fond & gronndlefs conceite of merire , are works of the Law, being required & corn - mandedby the Law. Yea the Law never commanded any works with this conceite of mente : And therefore by this opinion none of the works of the Law are excluded. 5. Adam was obliged to give perfe& obedience to the Law , without the least thought of mer,teing ex condign thereby : And if no merite or works with a conceite of nieritebe now excluded , but the merite ex condiçno,then is the Covenant of works eflablished by the Gofpel. ,Nay thus, our imperfeCt works , are made to merite as well ex congruo & ex pat; o, juftification & life, as Adam's perfect & finlefs obedience could have done. 6. The man that bath works, without this conceite of merite , can not be called an ungodly man, no more than Adam could have been called fo, while he flood in his integritie : But the juftification under the Gofpel is of the ungodly , God jufl,9eth the ungodly.) im. 4:5. Nor can the worker with- out this conceite of meriting , be Paid to be one that worketh nor, but belee- Neth on him, that jullifieth the ungodly : as is manifeft. 7. Either the Apostle eflablisheth works of juftification by them , & only condemned' the apprehenfion of merite in our works : or he excludeth all works
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