5 63 The Dofirine of St. James, miftaken ; for the Apoftle doth not afcribe Juftification partly to Works, and partly to Faith ; but he afcribes Juftification in the feule by him intended, wholly to Works in oppofition to that Faith concerning which he treats. For there is a plain Antithefts in the Words between Works and Faith as unto Juftification in the feule by him intended. A dead Faith, a Faith without Works, the Faith ofDevils is excluded from having any influence into Juftificat'ion. Fourthly, He adds that the Apofile compares this Faith without Works untaa rich than that gives nothing unto the poor , ver. 16. and a' Body without a Spirit, ver. 26. wherefore, as that knowledg whereby a rich man knows the wants of the poor is true and real , and a dead body is a body; f is Faith without works true Faith all, and as fuch is conftdered by Saint James. Anf. Thefe things do evidently deftroy what they are produced in the confir- mation of, only the Cardinal helps them out with a little So-, phiftry. For whereas the Apoftle compares-ibis Faith unto the charity of a man that gives nothing to the poor, he fug - gefts in the room thereof his knowledge of their poverty. And his knowledge may be true, and the more true and cer- tain it is, the more falfe and feigned is the charity which he pretends in thefe words, Go and be fed or cloathed. Such is the Faith the Apoftle (peaks of. And although a dead body is a true body, that is, as unto the matter or fubftance of it; a Carcafs ; yet is it not an ential part of a living man. A Carcafs is not of the fame nature or kind as is the body of °a living man. And ,we affert no other difference between the Faith fpoken of by the Apoftle, and that which is. juftifying, than what is between a dead breathleß Carcafs and a living animated body, prepared and fitted for all vital acts. Where- fore it is evident beyond all contradi &ion, if we have not a mind to be contentious, that what the Apoftle fames here derogates from Faith as unto our Juftification it refpe is only a dead barren lifelefs Faith, fuch as is ufually pretended by un- godly o.
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