of Good Works. Sncr. VI. wt(ttdAdAtwittsuLtkuitt VO TitY0q44VWs.44. 4,404 SERMON XL1X. Setting forth divers ilxioms toclear theDoQrineof'goodDorks> EY x E S. 2.10. [ For we are bts workmanfhip created to good works. Diversexpia- /'1Öod works (youhaveheard) are the infeparable and necdfary fruit of this natory rules to 2tew creative. It bath an been informed you,what agood work is.I (hall beconfidered at, this time lay down foam di(tinftions, or nece(iary Axioms to debe this or rkoks. nrgood w Dotatine about Good works, and fo pròceed to application. s. The Scrip- And fit[t, This is Worth your obfervation, That the Scripture ¡peaked; /Ono- tore (peak's= timed in praife andworth ofthem,fometimes again by wayof dimintetion,anddebafing sometimes in ' theist. When good works arecompared with therighteoufneffäof Chia , or d,Iprarfe of haverelation to julification,thenthey are rejefted as unable for any fachufe.Thus them. the Prophet. faith , Our righteournefsis likea menftruom cloth, Ifa.3o. 22. How loathfom isthat ? and foare our holy duties if Godfbouldenter intojudgement with us. `fufiitianof?racfitindnlgentia rota Damine, OLord,ourrighteoafvefste thy indul- gence t Our ¡unificationconfilts in pardon;therefore we have no perfeftion to ju- 'fifl no, but imperfec`lion to be forgiven us. Thus the Apofile alto, Hedoth account ( and that is an aft ofjudgement anddeliberation) all things but dungand drofs is ìamparifan ofthe righteoosfnefs byfaith in Chrifß, Phil. 3.8. So thenwhen the belt works we doare confidered in the Court ofjultification, there they are damnable, and have fomuch drofs in them, that GodBoth rejeti them as infufficient.They are not good, but bad works in that folic a Therefore a man in ¡unification is looked upon as a firmer, without a righteoufnefs anfwering the Law, though at that time alto he doth repentand believe. But then atother timeothe Scripturefreaksofgood works in re ffteíl offaníiificationond at they relate to theglory ofggod,and are an orna- ment to our holypro(efon,And in this fente the word of Godloth oftencommend them, andexhort to them, So that ifthou haft got fo much skill as to know in 'what fenfe the Scripture debafeth them, and inwhat fenfe it commends them, biefs God for that knowledge, and look upon it as a fiar togold thee. The Apoltle in this Cha- pter, attributing our Wholefalvation tograce,left be fhouldbe thought therefore to Occlude good works,and it were all one whether wewere prophaneor godly , he addeth, 'that We are created togood works. fake heedof Popery tomake thy good works a groundofjuftification; takeheedof Antinomiani(m,to deny the pretence of them. a. Good works A fecond rule is, That good works are notto delimited to onekiríd, but are to be arc so be en- exiénd,d atfar as the Law ofCods commands. Thus the Obedience to the fiatcorn- 'ended as far mando; tit is a goodwork,to the fecond, & fo to everyone;for the Law isa rule of as Go:s cow- good works,and as the Logiciansfay, There ss nocreated being, but it is reduced into mends. one
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