The Christian warfare wherein is first generally showed the malice, power and politic stratagems…The Christian warfare wherein is first generally shewed the malice, power and politike stratagems…

¹Otherwise we affirm that other graces of Gods spirit and even good works which is a fruit of them all, do necessarily accompany our justification, not as instruments or causes thereof, but as inseparable effects and fruits thereof. So that howsoever we exclude works from the act of justifying, yet we necessarily require them in the subject or person justified; we affirm that faith alone justifieth, but we deny that such a faith which is alone doth justify us; we maintain that we are justified by faith alone without works, but with all we affirm that faith which is without works doth not justify us as being dead, false and imaginary. This may be made plain by some similitudes: to the being of an honest man there is necessarily required honest actions, not as causes but as effects, neither are his honest actions the cause of his honesty, but his honesty the cause of his honest actions; to a living man there is necessarily required as well breathing which is an action or effect of life, as the soul which is the cause thereof, and so to a justified man there is necessarily required, as well good works which are the effects of justification, as faith which is the instrumental cause thereof; for faith and works are never severed in the subject or party justified, although they are disjoined in the act of justifying. So the eye only seeth and not the forehead, but yet the eye severed from the forehead seeth not, because it is but a dead eye, the hand writeth and not the ⟨p. 579⟩body, but the hand severed from the body writeth not, because it is a dead hand. The foot goeth and not the head or heart, but the foot which is severed from the head or heart goeth not, and so faith only justifieth, and not hope, not charity, not works, but the faith that is severed from hope, charity, and works, justifieth not, because it is but a dead faith; as therefore when we say the eye only seeth, the hand only writeth, the foot only walketh, our meaning is not that these parts being alone, and severed from the rest, see, write, and walk, but that amongst all other parts, the action or function of seeing belongeth peculiarly unto the eye, writing to the hand, walking to the foot: so when we say that only faith justifieth, our meaning is not that the faith which is alone, and severed from other graces and the fruits of them good works, justifieth;

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