The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

Though other graces are not Faith, and have not the office proper to Faith; yet every one is conjunct in the work of our salvation, and in our pleasing and glorifying God: Some of them being the concomitants of Faith, and some of them its end, to which it is a means: Yea, oft-times the words [Faith and Repentance] are used as signifying much of the same works, the latter named from the respect to the term from which, and the former from the respect to part of the term to which the soul is moving: And Faith is oft taken as containing somewhat of Love and Desire in it; and he that will without any prejudice and partiality study Paul where he opposeth Faith and Works, as to our Justification, shall find by his almost constant naming [the Works of the Law] or by the context and analysis, that indeed his chief meaning is to prove, that we are justified by the Christian Religion, and must be s•ved by it, and not by the Jewish ▪ which the adversaries of Christianity then pleaded for, and trusted to.

Direct. 12. Set not the helps of Faith as if they were against ⟨p. 161⟩Faith; but understand their several places and offices, and use them accordingly.

Do not like those ignorant self-conceited Heretics, who cry out, [It is by Believing, and not by Repenting, or Reading, or Hearing Sermons, or by Praying, or by forbearing sin, or by doing good, that we are justified; and therefore it is by Faith only that we are saved; the same which is sufficient for our Justification, being sufficient for our salvation; seeing the Justified cannot be condemned; and Justification and Salvation are both equally ascribed to Faith without the works of the Law by the Apostle.] For we are justified only by such a Faith, as is caused by Gods Word, and maintained and actuated by Hearing, Reading, Meditation, Prayer and Sacraments; and as is accompanied by Repentance, and worketh by Love, and is indeed the beholding of those invisible and glorious motives, which may incite our Love, and set us on good works, and obedience to our Redeemer. And he that by negligence omitteth, or by error excludeth any one of these, in the Life of Faith, will find that he hath erred against his own interest, peace and comfort, if not against his own salvation. And that he might as wisely have disputed that it is his eyes only that must see his way, and therefore he may travel without his legs.