An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 52. Yea, while they make Faith, Repentance and Holiness but Signs and Evidences of our right to Life-eternal, they thereby allow it some place in Justification: For Evidence hath its place in Judgment: And they are moral Evidences, and not physical only.

§. 53. If men understood how atheological and perilous it is to conceit, that either Faith or any thing of ours, (no though we were innocent,) is any proper efficient Cause of God's own internal acts in our Justification, and would understand that ⟨p. 252⟩all can be no more than dispositio receptiva, which Dr. Twice calls causa dispositiva, a mere receptive Aptitude, which is but the Qualification causae materialis, that is, of the Subject to be justified, it would presently lead them out of their vain Contention about Faith and Gospel-Obedience herein, and show them how each in several respects and instances qualify Man for the beginning or continuance of Justification, or for Right to Glory.

§. 53. If men understood how atheological and perilous it is to conceit, that either Faith or any thing of ours, (no though we were innocent,) is any proper efficient Cause of God's own internal acts in our Justification, and would understand that ⟨p. 252⟩all can be no more than dispositio receptiva, which Dr. Twisse calls causa dispositiva, a meer receptive Aptitude, which is but the Qualification causae materialis, that is, of the Subject to be justified, it would presently lead them out of their vain Contention about Faith and Gospel-Obedience herein, and shew them how each in several respects and instances qualifie Man for the beginning or continuance of Justification, or for Right to Glory.