58 o The Dotfrine of St. James it was made perfeci by Works, that is evidencedfo to be.. For. 7emvos,7Exei oucu doth no where in the Scripture fignifie the in ternal,formal perfe&ting of any thing,_ but only the external complement or perfection of it, or the,manifef1ation of it. ; Ìt was compleat as unto its proper effe &, when he was fink ju- ftified ; and it was now manifefted fo o be. See Mat. 5.48. Col. 4. I 2. 2 Car.. 12,. 9. This faith. the Apoflle, I have proved in the inftance. of Abraham. ; namely, that it is Works of Obedience alone that can evince aman to be . juftified, or to have that Faith whereby he may be fo..( 3) He adds in the confirmation of what he had affirmed, ver. 23. And the Scri- pture was fooled, which faith Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for Righteoufnef; and he was called the fiend of God. ; Two things, the Apoftle affirms herein. ( I ) That -the Scripture mentioned was fulfilled. It was fo in that- _Juftifi- cation by Works which he afcribes unto Abraham. But how this Scripture was herein fulfilled, either as unto the time wherein it was fpoken, or as unto the thing it Of; any other- wife but as that, which is therein afferted, was evidenced and declared, no man can explain, what the Scripture affirmed fo long before of Abrahamwas then evidenced to be moft true, by the Works which ;his ..Faith produced, and fo that Seri/ pore was accomplifhed. For otherwife fi,ppofing the di- ftinctìons ;made between Faith and Works by himfelf, and the oppofition that he puts between them; adding thereunto the fence given of this place by. the Apoftle-Parl, with the direct importance of the words, and nothing can be more-, contradi- c`lóry- unto his deign ( namely; if he intended to. prove Dim yufiijéation,before God by Works) than the quotation of this Teftimony. Wherefore this Scripture neither was nor can be otherwife fulfilled by Abrahams .Jufhfication by Works, lut only that by and upon themhe was rnánifefted fo to. be (2)He,
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