49-6 . s lames a: 14, &C. Cleared and vindicated. C i AP. 70 ;the world : Yea, had it been unknown to any, yet hereby he had afure proof, to afcertaine his own heart & confcience of his juflification. But fay the Ar- minians, Good works cannot be fuch a proof d? demon Nation becaufe it cannot be known to others , whether thefe good works proceed from faith , or not. Al. Nor is any infallible judgment here necetfary, or,requifite; nor Both Scope of tames require any fuch thing , who is only shewing, that ,fuch as wrought not works of obedience , when called for, could not conclude them - felves jutlìfied , & in a faite eflate, notwithflanding of all their faire profef- fion. N( twithflanding we cannot judge infallibly of principles., motives & ends of.tlae good works of others , yet by what maybe peen Of thefe , God may be glorified Mat. y -i6. i. Pet. 2:' i 2. Thus we have feen, that neither is that faith , whereof Paùtfpeaketh,,, when he faith. We are jufti fled by faith without the deeds of the Law ; & whe- .:reof lamer fpeaketh., òvhen he faith. Ye fee then, how a manir jufli fled by works Ii5' not by faith only, is not one fit the fame. 011.1or is it the fame ;unification., or juflification in the fame fenfe & confideration , that both the Apoflles fpeak of And therefore how ever , ano their words , they feem to fpeak ,contrary to other : Yet in their true fenfe & meaning , there is nothing but a fweet harmony & agreement. But now asto works , whereof both make ,nientione, the queftion remaineth , whether they be one & thefame ? The - forenamed Socinian Author faith., that both do not fpeak of the fame works: ;and that Pau /excludeth from juflification .only legal works, .& not Evan- gelical. And confequently that I ones mu &: fpeak of Evangelical works on- ly :But fure we are, tames cannot be fuppofed ro (peak of Evangelical works, in their fenfe ; feing , they cannot fay , that Abraham's offering up Ifaac or 5Rahab her receiving & fending away the fpies , were Evangelical works. Games fpeaketh of works commanded by the Moral Law , which he men - tioneth botti in general, & in its particular commands tam. z: 9, ió, ir., And all the duties, which he preffeth them unto, & the fins.. which he .diffwadeth them from , relate unto the Moral. Law. And what thefe works are , whereof Paul fpeaketh , we have feen before. Others think , thar ga- snes by Works here meaneth a working faith : & fo that his meaning, when he faith , that by works a man is juJhf ed , is, that by a working faith , fuch as Abraham had , a man is juflified. But though it be a truth that juflifyiag faith is a working lively faith ? And that we are jutlified only by fuch a faith, as is lively, & prompteth to obedience , in every duty called for; & though this troth will follow by confequenr, from what the Apoflle tames here faith; Yet I judge , that both Paul & Tames underftand the fame thing by works, gven duties of obedience, performed to the Law of God, &that by Works here in tames , is not meant a working faith , this not being the (cope & defigne of tames to clear up juftification in its .Caufes, or to spew by what meanes it is brought about; but only to shew , what way it is or may be evidenced proved & demonftrated to ourfelves or others , fo as we may not be deceived. thereanent ; And real works of obedience , as they evidence a true & lively with , fo they prove.rhe reality of jufti,fication : And the Apofl -tes intention being, to strew the vanity of that pretence, whereby many <íeceive:d them -' lei.
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