Aphorisms of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…Aphorismes of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…

2. When the Apostle saith, By Works, and not By Faith only, he plainly makes them concomitant in procurement, or in that kind of causality which they have: Especially, seeing he saith not, as he is commonly interpreted, not By Faith which is alone; but not, by Faith only, [Greek or Hebrew].

2. When the Apostle saith, By Works, and not By Faith onely, he plainly makes them concomitant in procurement, or in that kind of causality which they have: Especially, seeing he saith not, as he is commonly interpreted, not By Faith which is alone; but not, by Faith only, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.

3. Therefore he saith that Faith is dead being alone, Because it is dead as to the use and purpose of Justifying: for in it self it hath a life according to its quality still. This appears from his comparison in the former verse 16. that this is the death he speaks of. And so Works make Faith alive, as to the attainment of its end of Justification.

4. The Analysis which Piscator and Pemble give, contradicteth not this Assertion. If in stead of a Working Faith, they will but keep the Apostles own words, I shall agree to most of their Analysis. (Though conclusions drawn from the Analysis are often weak, it is so easy ⟨p. 193⟩for every man to feign an Analysis suited to his ends) only the explication of the 22. vers. they seem to fail in. For when the Apostle saith, that Faith did, [Greek or Hebrew], work in and with his works, it clearly aimeth at such a working in, and with, as maketh them conjunct in the work of Justifying: And when he saith that Faith was made perfect with Works, it is not (as they and others interpret) only a manifesting to be perfect. But as the habit is perfected in its Acts, because they are the end to which it tendeth; And as Marriage is perfected per congressum & procreationem: or any Covenant when its conditions are performed. Faith alone is not the entire perfect Condition of the New Covenant: but Faith with Repentance and sincere Obedience, is; A condemned Galley-slave being Redeemed, is to have his deliverance upon condition that he take his Redeemer for his Master: This doth so directly imply, that he must obey him, that his conditions are not perfectly fulfilled, except he do obey him as his Master: And so taking him for his Redeemer and Master, and obeying him as his Master, do in the same kind procure his continued freedom. Indeed his mere promise and consent doth procure his first deliverance, but not the continuance of it. So I acknowledge,