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

Proposition 2. By the works of the Mosaical Law, no man can be justified. And therefore the Jews seek Righteousness where it is not to be found, while they think that pardon of sin and acceptance with God are to be obtained by the bare works of that Law: while they overlook or reject Christ who is the end of that Law for righteousness to every Believer Specially now that Law is Abrogated or ceased, it were a double error to expect Justification by its works.

Proposition 3. Much less can they be justified by the foresaid Law, who in stead of fulfilling it, do but falsely imagine that they fulfil it.

Proposition 3. Much less can they be justified by the foresaid Law, who in stead of fulfilling it, do but falsely imagine that they fulfill it.

Proposition 4. No man can be justified by works properly meritorious, because no man hath any such at all; nor may we once imagine that we have any such works as Paul speaks of (and the Jews thought they had) which make the reward to be not of Grace but of Debt, Rom. 4.4. much less that we are justified by such; even Gospel works and faith it self do not justify on this account, and a conceit that they are thus meritorious would but turn them into condemning sins.

Proposition 4. No man can be justified by works properly meritorious, because no man hath any such at all; nor may we once imagine that we have any such works as Paul speaks of (and the Jews thought they had) which make the reward to be not of Grace but of Debt, Rom. 4.4. much less that we are justified by such; even Gospel works and faith it self do not justifie on this account, and a conceit that they are thus meritorious would but turn them into condemning sins.