Of justification four disputations clearing and amicably defending the truth against the unnecessary oppositions…

I will next, as impartially as I can, consider your Answers to what I laid down for the proof of the Point in Question. But first I must acknowledge▪ that I have given you and others great advantage against the Doctrine of that Book, by the immethodicalness, and neglect of Art, and not giving the Arguments in form, which I then thought not so necessary as now I perceive it is: (for I was ready to yield wholly to Gibeeuf's reasons against formal arguing, Praefat. ante lib. 2. de Libertate.) The present expectation of death caused me to make that haste, which I now repent: yet, though I see some oversights in the manner of expression, I see no cause to change my mind in the Doctrine of it.

I will next, as impartially as I can, consider your Answers to what I laid down for the proof of the Point in Question. But first I must acknowledge▪ that I have given you and others great advantage against the Doctrine of that Book, by the immethodicalness, and neglect of Art, and not giving the Arguments in form, which I then thought not so necessary as now I perceive it is: (for I was ready to yield wholly to Gibeeufs reasons against formal arguing, Praefat. ante lib. 2. de Libertate.) The present expectation of death caused me to make that haste, which I now repent: yet, though I see some oversights in the manner of expression, I see no cause to change my mind in the Doctrine of it.

Also I must desire you to remember here, that the proof lieth on your part, and not on mine: Affirmanti incumbit probatio. It is acknowledged by almost all, that fides qua Justificat, Justifying faith is a Receiving of Christ as Lord, and not only as Saviour or Justifier: And you and I are agreed on it, that Faith justifieth not as an Instrument, but as a Condition: so that they who will go further here, and maintain that yet Faith justifieth only As it Receiveth Christ as Justifier, or as Saviour, and not as King, must prove what they say. If I prove 1. that Faith justifieth as the Condition, on performance whereof the Gift is conferred. 2. And that this Faith which is the Condition, is the Accepting of Christ as Christ, or the Anointed King and Saviour: (both which are yielded me;) I must needs think that I have proved that the Receiving Christ as King, doth as truly Justify, as the Receiving him as Priest or Justifier: (Yet I had rather not say that either Justifies,