c®rtcerniñg Faith and Works. 565' utterly barren as unto any good Works or Duties of Obe- dience. Nor is there any other occafion of what he writes intimated in the Epiftle 5 For he makes no mention of Sedti cers, as John doth exprefly.and frequently, force while after. Againft this fort of perfons, or for their convi &ion he defigns two things. (i-.) In general to prove the neceffity of Works unto all that profefs the Gofpel or Faith in Chrift thereby. (2.) To evidence the vanity and folly of their pretence un- to Juftification , or that they were juftified and fhould be faxed, by that Faith that was indeed fo far from being fruit- ful in good Works, as that it was: pretended by them only t-o countenance themfelves in Sin. Unto thefe ends are all his arguíngs defigned and no other. He- proves effeëivally thatthe Faith which is wholly barren and fruitlefs as unto Obedience, and which men pretended to-countenance them felves in their fins, is not that Faith whereby we are juftified, and whereby we may be Caved, but a dead carcafi, of no ufe nor benefit, as he declares by the Conclufion of his whole Difpute, in the laft Verfe of the Chapter. He doth not di re& any how they may be juftified before God, butconvin- ceth force that they are not juffified by trufting unto filch a dead Faith, and declares the only way whereby any man may really evidence and manifeft that he is Io juilified indeed. This deGgn of his is fo plain, as nothing can be more evident-, and they mils the whole.Ccope of the Apoftle, who ()Verve it not in their Expofitions of the Context. Wherefore the principal deGgn of the Apoftles being Co diftant, there is no repugnancy in their Affertions, though their words make an appearance thereof:' For they do not (peak ad idea, nor of things eodem refeëar. yaws doth not once- enquire how a guilty convinced Sinner, cafe and condemned by the Law, may come to be juftified before-God; and Paul (peaks to nothing elle. Wherefore apply the Exprefitóns of each of them unto their proper defiign and (cope,- as we muff do, or we
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