384 Chap. 5. c..4' Commentary vpon _ not theforineofhis bodie,but of the vvholtrnan. S 2. prat may as well fignifie breath, or breathing, as the foule. And fo it car. ries a fit Ileac. Foras the bodie without breath is dead , and it fhewes it felfeto bealine by breathing : fo faith that-is without workes, is dead , and it fhewes it felfe tobe al=by workes. 3. 5 There is a falle compofition ofthe wordes to be confidered4 Meth that L witbont works is dead : is true : but to fay ,faith is deadwithout roorke.s(as thoughworkes gate e life to faith)tsLille; and nottlwmeaningofS. lames, but the forrner-onely. Againe , the Papifis hence gather , that faithand loue are to ioynt caufes in the iufiificationofa.finner , and that faith war. keth loue in iufbryingmenbefore God. But this Interpretati. ,on is aer6 ainft the whole fcope of this Epiftle , in whichPaul prooucs that there is no iultificationby the law, c. 5. v.4. and therefore no iuflification by loue. Agame, Paul faith, Rom. 3. 15 2 I. that righteeRfaes is resealed without the law : andtherefore without lone. And againe , thit we arewade the righteaufnotsf, Chrift, a4 Cbrig it madeour gust . ,namely, by imputation, and therefore not by infulionof loue. 2.-Cor. 5. 21. Thirdly', faith iuthfies byapprehending Chat in the promifc, and therefore ¡ 20 inot by loue. The conlequent I proouc thus. Faith and loue are two hands ofour foule. Faith is an hand that laies hold of Chrift, and it doth(as it were) pull him and his 'benefits into our foules. But loue is anhandof another kind , for itferues not to receiue in,but toglueout,the good it bath ,and to corn. :5 ,municate itfelfe vntoothers.Therefortfaith cannot itiflifieby loue. Lafily,lotte imorder ofnature follovvesitiftification, and -therefore it doth not iuftifie. For fira ofall faith lairs -hold on 'Chrill : then followes inflification : vpon iuftification follows ranflification, and louais a part offantlification. 3° Theyvrge for themfelues the wordsofPaul,that faithwork! 47 lose. ;Inf. -Paul doth not (hew in this-1:011i, what iuflifieth, but what are the exercifes of Godlines in which Chriftians .muflbe occupied. Andhedoth not (hewhow faith iufhfieth, ¡ but how it may he clifcernedtabe true faith,namely,by lone. 35 Secondly,theyobieEt that faith and loue arc alwaies ioyned: and therefore ioyntlyworke in iufbfication. Aof They are i ioyned in one perfon or fubieft -: and they are ioyncd in the i-exercifèofChrifban life : but theyare not ioyned in the article .-ofiuffification.
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