Cu P. . 500 No countenance given to f tsli ficdtion which, nrnr the endi to which our works proceed & are intended. There is as much need ofa divine heart- fcarching knowledge , to difcerne the fince- rity of works , as of faith it felf. He may fee , that all this will make as much againft Chrilt'sfaying Mat. 5: IC. Let your light fo shine before men , that they ,nay fee your good works , dT glorifie your Father, which is in heaven. And that job. 13: 3 5. By this shall all men know , that ye are my difciples : if ye love one another : and that i.,Pet. z: iz. Having your Converfation honefl among the Gen- tiles - they may by your good works , which they shall behold , glori fie God , in the day ofVtfitation. Nor is it to the purpofe to fay , that he was the luftifier, who was the imputer of Ri ghreoufnefs , that is, God ;`for works of obedien- ce tray declare , that Cod Math imputed Righteoufnefs unto the perfon , & háth juftified him ; and this is all ; we fay that Abraham was in this fence ju- ftified by his works , that he was declared to be juftified indeed before God , by his works. Some were pleafed to exnrefstheir fenfe of /ames's words thus , That 24- ,nes (peaks of works as juffifying our faith , not as jufiifying our perlons, meaning only, that the Apoltle did not confider woks here, as the Cause , or Condition of the perlons being juftified before God , but as the effeht evidence proving the mans faith to be found & laving , and confequently the maathereby to have been jullified : which fenfe is the fame with what we have given : but Mr. Baxter, faith,/it is as plaine , as can be , that it is the perfon d!, not his Faith, which is here feud to be juflifled. Anf: The perfon , it is true is faid here to be juftified but not caufatively but declaratively, than is , It is not laid , that by works his juRification is effeduated , but that it is declared ,8z. shat becaufe it is hereby declared, that the man is a true be- leever, & thus his faith is manifefted to be of the right kind which is all that was intended by that expretlion. Yet Mr. Baxter wili not fay, that works do effeElually produce our juflification ( for Faith doth not fo.) But yet he will have both to jultifie,as Conditions, or as parts of one Condition : Only he addeth , that they do not juflifio , as equal parts of the Condition; for Faith is the principal ; but at the fecondáry lefs principal part of the Condition. Anf. Yet, tamer hinteth at nófuch thing, but giveth the preference to works: Yea excludeth the faith , whereof he fpeaketh ; altogether from having any intereft in jollification , as being nothing but a dead, carcafs, a vaine, fruitlefs & unprofitable thins, & fo bath no kind ofcaufalii.y or procurement in juRification. But he addeth asa reafon. .That when it is faid we are juftified by works, the word by implied) more than an idle concomitancy. Anf; I shall eafily grant this, but withall fay , that this will not give unto works any caufality in jaftification ; but only evince works to be an evidence of juftification , as the cattle is laid to be manifefted by the effe.d. He addeth 2. When the 1poj?le faith. By works & not by faith only, he plainly makes them concomitant. in procurement , or in that kind of caufality which they have. Efpecially feing he faith not , as he is commonly interpreted , not by faith, which is alone; but by faith only xY ir. - is-wo,4lro, 4nf: Then bath fruitlefs dead faith , which devils may have, a kind of caufality in ju- flification; which isexprefy contrary to the fcope &all the reafonings of the
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