508 Thefecond Booke ofDiuinitie, CHAP. 9. written, The righteogsrby Faith Ibal line, is notable to this purpofe. Firfi, In that the Apoftle calleth it , TheRsghteonfnefe of God which is 6y Faith : for feeing Faith apprehendeth not the workscontayned in the Law, but Chrift alone ; it mutt needs follow , that Chrïft , whom Faith appre- hendeth , is our Iullice , andnot the wórks of the Law wrought by the Spirit of Chrit} , which is not the fub- iea of Faith. And thereupon the Apoftle teacheth Cal.3.12. TheLaw is not of Faith, but theman that dab thefe things,lhall line by them. Secondly, When hee faith , that this Righteoufiieffe is reuealedfromFaith toFaith,he declareth, that wee are iufiified by Faith, not onely at the timewhen weefirft beleeue , but that our whole and continual) luttiflcation is by Faith : otherwife hee fhould not haue Paid , From Faith toFaith, but, from Faith to Works. And if Chrift were not ourRighteoufheffe himfelfe, but obtayned on- ly powerfor vs , that wee might haue Rightcoufne% in our felues, then he fhould not be our Sauiour but an in. ftrument of our faluation. in rapt,1.14,2. 5. As for that which lames faith , that m /Abraham, WAS iufiifaed by works, and fo of Rahab: weighing the circumfiances of the Text, I fuppofe, hee vnderflandeth by forks, a lively and a working Faith : for lames oppo- fetb not the Works of the Law to a true Faith , as Paul cloth , but Works, that is to fay , an effe&uall liuely Faith, that fheweth his life and vigor by the fruits, to a dead and fruitleffe faith, which is no faith , but a fhad- dow and carkaffe of faith : So the femblance of diffe- rence betweene the twoApoflles may bee conceived to be,not in the word lu.íifying,which with themboth go- eth, for that it is, to bee made righteous in the fight and iudgement of God : but in the terme of Works, Paud taking them literally , lames by a Metonymic , for Faith that bringeth them forth : afcribing that to the c ffcdt which
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