IN RELIGION. 151 ineffective quality, but possesses so great excellency, that it utterly confounds and destroys all the foolish dreams and ima- ginations of sophisters; but if works only are taught, faith is lost." - " But if no- thing but faith is inculcated, carnal men begin to dream that there is no need of good works." Again : " If, indeed, faith saves us without works, let us have no anxiety about good actions ; let us only take care and believe, and we may do what we please. It is true," adds he, " that Paul tells you that faith without works justifies; however he also tells you that a true faith after it has justified, does not permit a man to slumber in ignorance, but that it worketh by love." Again : " You now see, that though it is faith alone which justifies, yet that faith alone is not sufficient." There is not a single doctrine of the New Testament which does not involve practical consequences. The necessity of holiness, now unhappily not, insisted H 4
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