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

Proposition 5. The Gospel promiseth Justification to all that will Believe, (or are Believers.) To be a Believer and to be a Disciple of Christ, in Scripture sense is all one, and so is it to be a Disciple and to be a Christian: therefore the sense of the promise is, that we shall be justified, if we become true Christians or Disciples of Christ; and therefore justifying faith comprehendeth all that is essential to our Disciple•ship or Christianity as its constitutive causes.

Proposition 6. It is not therefore any one single Act of faith alone by which we are justified, but it is many Physical acts conjunctly which constitute that faith which the Gospel makes the condition of Life. Those therefore that call any one Act or two by the name of justifying faith, and all the rest by the name of works, and say that it is only the act of recumbency on Christ as Priest, or on Christ as dying for us, or only the act of apprehending or accepting his imputed Righteousness, by ⟨p. 78⟩which we are justified, and that our Assent, or Acceptance of him as our Teacher and Lord, our desire of him, our love to him, our renouncing other Saviours and our own Righteousness, &c. are the works which Paul doth exclude from our Justification, and that it is Jewish to expect to be justified by these though but as Conditions of Justification; these persons do mistake Paul, and pervert the Doctrine of Faith and Justification, and their Doctrine tendeth to corrupt the very nature of Christianity it self. Though yet I doubt not but any of these acts conceited meritorious (or otherwise as before explained in the Negative) if men can believe contradictories, may be the matter of such works as Paul excludeth: And so may that one act also which they appropriate the name of justifying faith to.

Proposition 7. Sincere obedience to God in Christ is a condition of our continuance in a state of Justification, or of our not losing it. And our perseverance therein is a condition of our appearing in that state before the Lord, at our departure hence.