5 50 Objetizons again .! 7ufiification Í y the If this were indeed his Do&rine, and that which would fo eafily folve this difficulty,and anfwer this objeélion,as both of them are by fome pretended, certainly neither his wifdom nor his care of the Church under the conduCt of the infal- lible Spirit would have fuffered him to omit this reply, were it confifient with the truth which he had delivered. But he is fo far from any fuch Plea, that when the moll unavoidable occafion was adminiftred unto it , he not only waves any mention of it, but in its Head affirms that which plainly evi- denceth that he allowed not of it. See Eph. 2. 9, I o. Having pofitively excluded Works from our Juflification, not of -Works lee any manJhould boat!, it being natural there- on to enquire, to what end do Works ferve, or is there any necefiïtyof them? inftead of a diflin &ion of Works legal and Evangelical inorder unto our Juflification, he afferts the necefl'ity of the later on other Grounds, Reafonsand Motives, manifefling thatthey were thofe in particular which he ex- cluded, as we have feen in the con. deration of the place ; Wherefore that we may not forfàke his pattern and example in the fame caufe, feeing he was Wifer and Holier, knew more of the mind of God, and had more . zeal for perfonal Righteoufnefs and Holinefs in the Church than we all, if we are preffed a Thoufand times with this objection we !hall ne- ver leek to deliver our felves from it, by anfwering that we allow thefe things to be the condition, or caufes of our luflification, or the matter of our Righteoufiefsbefore God, teeing he would not fo do. Secondly, we may obferve, that in his anfwer unto this obje&ion, whether exprefly mentioned or tacitly obviated, he infifleth not any where upon the common principle of moral Duties, but on thofe motives and reafons of Holinefs, Obedience, good works alone, which are peculiar unto Be- lievers. For the queftion was not, whether all mankind were obliged unto Obediençe unto God and the Duties there- of
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