il the, Ep f les of S. Paul, &c. 535= the Works of Righteoufnefs which we do. (5.) He dif- claims all that is our own. And if the Evangelical Righteouf- nefs intended be our own, he lets up another in oppofition unto it; and which therefore is not our own, but as it is im- puted unto us. And I (hall yet add fome other reafons which render this pretence ufelefs, or, thew the falfnefs of it. r. Where the Apotle doth not diftinguith or limit what he fpeaks of, what ground have we to diftinguifh or Iimit his Aflertíons. Not by Works, faith he, fometimes abfolutely, fometimes the Works of Righteoufnefs which we have done; that is, not by force fort of Works fay thole who plead the con- trary : But by what warrant ? (2.) The Works which they pretend to be excluded, as wherein our own Righteoufneß that is rejeered doth confft, are Works wrought without Faith, without the aid of Grace : But thefe are not good r' Works, nor can any be denominated righteous from them, nor is it any Righteoufnefs that confits in them alone. For without Faith it is impoffible to pleale God : And to what purpofe fhould the Apoffle exclude evil works and hypocriti- cal, from our Jutification ? Who ever imagined, that any could be juftified with refpe& unto them. There might have been force pretence for this glofs, had the Apotle laid his own Works ; but whereas he reje &s his own Righteoufnefs, to retrain it unto fuch Works as are not righteous , as will denominate none righteous,as are no Righteoufnefs at all, is moil abfurd. (3) Works wrought in Faith, if applied unto our Jutification, do give occafion unto, or include boafling, more then any others, as being better and more pralle wor- thy then they. (4.) The Apotle elfwhere excludes from Jutification the Works., that Abraham had done when he had been a Believer many years; and the Works of David when he defcribed the Blefhednefs of a Man by the forgive° nefs, of fans. (5.) The Rate of the Queftion which he hand'es
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