concerning Faith and Works. 573 perfonal .Juftification before God. Neither are we concern- ed in any other Juítification in this caua whatever. ( 3 ) That he afcribes this Juftification wholly unto Works in con -. tradittindion unto Faith, as unto that fenfe of Juftification which he intended , and the Faith whereof he treated Wherefore (4) He doth not at all enquire or determine how a firmer is juftified before God, but how Profeffors of the Gofpel can prove or demonftrate that they are fo, and that they do not deceive themfelves by trufting unto a lifelefs arid barren Faith. All thefe things will . be further evidenced in a brief confìderation of the cóntext it felf,. wherewith I tha11 clolè this Difcourfe. In the beginning of the Chapter unto v. 14. Fie reproves thole unto whom he wrote for many fins committed. againft the Law the rule of their fins. and Obedience ; or at least warneth them of them ; and having {hewed the danger they were in hereby, he difcovers the Root and principal occafion of it, v. 14. which was nò otherbut a vain furmife and de- ceiving prefumption that the Faith required in the Gofpel was nothing but a bare aflent unto the Doitrine of it, where- on they were delivered from all Obligation unto mòral Obe- dience or good Works, and might without any danger unto their eternal Rate live in whatever fins their lufts inclined them unto,Chap. 4. y. 1, 2, 3,4. (hap. 5. v. i, 2, 3, 4, 5. The Rate of fuch.perfons which contains the whole mile .which he (peaks unto, and which gives rule and meafure unto, the interpretation of all his future arguings is laid down, v. z4. What doth it profit my Brethren though a manfay he bath Faith and have not Works, can Faithfave him? fuppofe a man,. any one of thole who are guilty of the fins charged, on them in the foregoing verfes, do yet fay, or boafá of himfelC that he bath Faith, that he makes profeffion of the Gofpel; that he hatitieft.either judaifn or Paganifm,. and betaken. himfell . tot
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=