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

My first proof is from those Texts of Scripture which expressly speak of Justification by such acts or works.

My first proof is from those Texts of Scripture which expresly speak of Justification by such acts or works.

If we are justified By our words and works, then are they no less then conditions of Justification. But we are justified By them. Ergo. &c.

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The Consequence of the Major is plain, first, In that the Preposition [By] doth signifie no less then the Interest of some means: but these Works can be no means, but either a condition or a cause, which is more: A cause, the persons that now I deal with, will not affirm them to be: If they do, then they ascribe much more to them then to be a condition. Secondly, The Interest of faith it self is expressed by no higher terms then [By,] that is, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, or 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, or 〈non-Latin alphabet〉: and so is the Interest of these other acts.