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

5. How will you ever prove, that our Entering into Life, and our continued remission or Justification have not the same conditions? that those Graces are excluded from one which belong to the other. Indeed the men that are for Faiths▪ Instrumentality, say somewhat to it; but what you can say, I know not. And for them, if they could prove Faith Instrumental in justifying co nomine, because it receives Christ by whom we are justified; they would also prove it the Instrument of Glorifying, because it Receives Christ by and for whom we are saved and Glorified. And so if the Instrumentality of Faith must exclude obedience from justifying us, it must also exclude it from Glorifying us. And I marvel that they are so loose and easy in admitting obedience into the work of saving, and yet not of continuing or consummating Justification, when the Apostle saith, By Grace ye are saved, by Faith, and so excludes obedience from Salvation in the general as much as he any where doth from Justification in particular.

5. How will you ever prove, that our Entering into Life, and our continued remission or Justification have not the same conditions? that those Graces are excluded from one which belong to the other. Indeed the men that are for Faiths▪ Instrumentality, say somewhat to it; but what you can say, I know not. And for them, if they could prove Faith Instrumental in justifying co nomine, because it receives Christ by whom we are justified; they would also prove it the Instrument of Glorifying, because it Receives Christ by and for whom we are saved and Glorified. And so if the Instrumentality of Faith must exclude obedience from justifying us, it must also exclude it from Glorifying us. And I marvel that they are so loose and easie in admitting obedience into the work of saving, and yet not of continuing or consummating Justification, when the Apostle saith, By Grace ye are saved, by Faith, and so excludes obedience from Salvation in the general as much as he any where doth from Justification in particular.

6. But lastly, I take what you grant me in this Section, and profess that I think in effect you grant me the main of the cause that I stand upon. For, as you grant, 1. That faith is not the whole condition of the Covenant. 2. That Repentance also is the condition of Remission (which is near the same with Justification.) 3. That obedience is the condition of Glorification (which hath the same conditions with final and continued Justification.) 4. So you seem to yield all this, as to our full justification at Judgement. For you purposely limit the conditionality of mere faith to our Justification in this Life. But if you yield all that I desire (as you do, if I understand you) as to the last justification at Judgement, then we are not much differing in this business. For I take (as Mr. Burges doth, Lect. of Justification 29) our completest and most perfect Justification to be that at Judgement. Yea, and that it is so eminent and considerable here, that I think all other Justification is so called chiefly as referring to that. And me thinks above all men, you should say so too, who make Justification to lie only in sententi judicis, and not in sententia Legis: And so all that go your way (as many that I meet with do.) If then we are justified at Gods great Tribunal at Judgement, by obedience as