An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 48. While all are agreed, that all men shall be justified or condemned according to their Works, it is unreasonable to quarrel at that height that many do, about the syllable [BY] (whether men be justified and condemned by their works) as if [according to them] and [by them] had a different sense; when as to judicial justification the sense is the very same, though as to the making of men just, the sense may differ.

§. 48. While all are agreed, that all men shall be justified or condemned according to their Works, it is unreasonable to quarrel at that height that many do, about the syllable [BY] (whether men be justified and condemned by their works) as if [according to them] and [by them] had a different sence; when as to judicial justification the sence is the very same, though as to the making of men just, the sence may differ.

§. 49. We are commonly agreed, that no man is justified by Works in any of these following senses.

§. 49. We are commonly agreed, that no man is justified by Works in any of these following sences.

1. No man is justified either constitutively or judiciarily by his Works done according to the Law of Innocency, that is, by perfect personal Obedience and Love, (because we have it not.) 2. No man is justified constitutively or judiciarily, by his Works done according to the Mosaical Jewish Law as such. 3. Much less by any Works of his own or other mens invention, which he accounteth good and are not so. 4. No man is justified by any Works set in opposition to or competition or co-ordination with Christ, but only in subordination to him and his ⟨p. 249⟩Righteousness by which we are redeemed, and for which we are all first conditionally pardoned and justified by the Law of Grace. 5. No man could be justified by his Gospel-Obedience, or his Faith, if he were to be judged by the Law of Innocency, as not redeemed. 6. No man's Faith or Obedience will justify him in Judgment against this accusation, [Thou art a Sinner] or this [Thy sin deserved Death.] Nor as one that hath fulfilled all the preceptive part of the law of Christ. 7. No Works do justify us, as meriting Life of God in proper commutative Justice. 8. No man is justified by Tasks of working, as contradistinct from believing and trusting on Free Grace: or by external works, without Christ's Spirit and spiritual Evangelical Duties. 9. No good Work or Act of Man was a Condition of God's giving us a Redeemer, or giving us a conditional justifying Law of Grace. 10. Man's true Faith and Repentance is not before the Grace which worketh it, and therefore is no Condition of that Grace. 11. Man's antecedent common Works, while he is impenitent, merit not properly the special Grace which causeth Faith and Repentance. 12. We have no Works that are acceptable to God, but what are the fruits of his Spirit and Grace.