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

4. But look into the words, and find out what error you can! Which of those acts do you think goes not before Justification? And if they go before, sure you will not deny but they do some way or other dispose or fit a man for pardon: or else God would not have prescribed them before it. 1. Catholic faith is the Belief of the Catholic Doctrine. I am sure you take that to go before Justification. 2. If Hope of pardon go not before, then Affiance (to which Hope is essential) goes not before: Yea, then Believers do despair in the Act of Believing to Justification. 3. I never knew the man that doubted whether fear of Punishment went before. 4. The same I may say of grief for sin. 5. And if all the doubt be of Purpose against sin, and for Amendment, 1. Sure they that say Repentance is pre-requisite to justification, will not exclude a Purpose of Amendment. 2. And sure those that say Sanctification and Vocation are all one, and go before Justification will hardly exclude it. 3. They that take a turning from Idols to the true God, as the end, to be in order before a Turning from Infidelity to the Mediator as the way, which is by Faith; these must needs think that so much of Actual Amendment goes before Justification (ye believe in God, believe also in me.) 4. They that say, Faith alone justifieth, but not the faith which is alone, will surely include this Purpose as Antecedent. Davenant, Mr. Ball &c. express it, and insist on it. Dr. Twiss calleth works Media & causae dispositivae: But it were endless to cite Authors in this Point. 5. But I tell you my mind. I take this Purpose of obeying Christ de futuro to be very Faith it self. For faith is a Covenant reception of Christ, and to take him for Christ and King-Redeemer, and to Purpose, yea Covenant to obey him, are but one thing. And therefore a Giving up our selves as Redeemed-subjects, and so a purpose of being actually subject, are faith it self. And then they must needs be prerequisite to Justification. So that whether you take these Acts for common or special, sully they go before Justification ⟨p. 390⟩as Dr. Ward saith. Dare you tell any man of your Hearers that though he have not so much as a Purpose to mend, yet he is justified by Faith? Truly such passages have embittered the minds of Papists, and many weak ones against our Doctrine of Justification: and given great advantage to the Antinomists.

4. But look into the words, and find out what error you can! Which of those acts do you think goes not before Justification? And if they go before, sure you will not deny but they do some way or other dispose or fit a man for pardon: or else God would not have prescribed them before it. 1. Catholick faith is the Belief of the Catholick Doctrine. I am sure you take that to go before Justification. 2. If Hope of pardon go not before, then Affiance (to which Hope is essential) goes not before: Yea, then Believers do despair in the Act of Believing to Justification. 3. I never knew the man that doubted whether fear of Punishment went before. 4. The same I may say of grief for sin. 5. And if all the doubt be of Purpose against sin, and for Amendment, 1. Sure they that say Repentance is pre-requisite to justification, will not exclude a Purpose of Amendment. 2. And sure those that say Sanctification and Vocation are all one, and go before Justification will hardly exclude it. 3. They that take a turning from Idols to the true God, as the end, to be in order before a Turning from Infidelity to the Mediator as the way, which is by Faith; these must needs think that so much of Actual Amendment goes before Justification (ye believe in God, believe also in me.) 4. They that say, Faith alone justifieth, but not the faith which is alone, will surely include this Purpose as Antecedent. Davenant, Mr. Ball &c. express it, and insist on it. Dr. Twiss calleth works Media & causae dispositivae: But it were endless to cite Authors in this Point. 5. But I tell you my mind. I take this Purpose of obeying Christ de futuro to be very Faith it self. For faith is a Covenant reception of Christ, and to take him for Christ and King-Redeemer, and to Purpose, yea Covenant to obey him, are but one thing. And therefore a Giving up our selves as Redeemed-subjects, and so a purpose of being actually subject, are faith it self. And then they must needs be prerequisite to Justification. So that whether you take these Acts for common or special, suely they go before Justification