CHAP.2. upon the Epiflle of J A M E s. --------'==------------------···-· For tU the body withoPJt t'he JPirit J There is fome difference about the meaning of the word ?1'v~tip.~1~: we read in the Margin bre~th~ in the Text JPirit; many prefer the marginal reading,becaufe 'cis not . ·+vxn>, as the body without the Sout, but as the bodJ without the fpirit or brearh: Of this opinion is Cajetan, whofe words are notable, becaufe they fully accotd with the Prote.fiant Dodrine : By Spirit ((aithhe) is no: meawt the Soul, .but the b~e"-th.; fo~ tU 4< untie appam. the boc!J ofabeaft when zt doth not breathe ss dead, fa zs fazth w1th- qtlo [e11[u dicit out Work._s dead, breathing being the e[feEl oflife, as '11NJrkJ:ng is of fi.dem Jillt ope. livingfaith: i< Whence'tis dear what the Apoftle meaneth, when rzb;f-6 _r~1ortuam · hef~ith, Faith is dead without Wark.J, not that Work.! are the Srml jff;ti~to;e qu~ ofFaitiJ,but that Work.! are tht Companiom-of Faith,as breathing fe{urm:m ftd~i . is in[eparable from life. By which Expofition their dodrine, That f•d qtto4 (enti; · Ch,,rity is the Soul af Faith, ~nd their difrindion of informand op~;a el!e co'lica;. form;ed f.eit~, fall to t~e ground. But however I ra.ther thi?~ that ;::;n~~tft~m; ' ?1'VetitJ.~1&- m the Text ts not to be tranfhted breath, butJPzrtt, or concomitatur foul, that fubfr.ance which qu:ckeneth and animateth the body, v itam co1piJ1u• . which is elfewhere expreffed by this word, as in thofe noted places, C~Jetan in liJ.~ Lu~23.46. liuo thy hands do I c9mmit my[pirit: 'And AW7·59• ettm,. Lord Jefrru receive my [pirit. And thlt refpiration which is the effect oflife,is expreffed by other words, ?rtto~, and dva.?rvo~, as A[f.r 17·2). He giveth, (ca~v ~ ?rl!o~v ~ T~ ?rc£vla., he giveth life, and breath, and a// thmg;s. The ,meaning is then, as a body without a· ) Soul, fo is faith without works: And yet hence it will not'follow, . that Charity, or theWarks, are the Soul ofFaith ; for the comparifon qoth not hold in regard of a;1imdtion and information, but in . J regard of operatif)n: As in the body without Soul there are only the outward propc>rtioos and lineaments, but nothing to difcover · life ; fo in empty profeffion there are fome lineaments of faith, but J no fruits to difoover the truth and life of it, it differing as much from faith, as a ca.rcafs cloth from aman. · - Is dead,] That is, cannot perform the fun&ions. and. offices of · life, or ofaman. . _So faith without Work!]. The Papifrs underStand true jufrifying,; fatth, for they fuppofe it may be without works; but de~df~tith . ~annot be true faith, as a carcafs is not a true man, and a true faith ; ~:im1ot be without works,"qat. 5. 6. We muLl: underfiand then·an ex.cernal profeffi·;>n -of belief, which) becaufe offome refemblanc~·-- Wlt~. Whl~ is true> is called faith. . . -- . - .---- . --. . --··· - ·-· -·--~ · · ]J; .
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