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

Now I answer to your Minor, that Abraham was not justified by works in Pauls sense, but he was in James's sense, unless you will own the saying which you chide Althamer for. (Though I must say that in his Conciliationes Loc. Script. Althamer deals more mannerly with James.) Abraham was not justified by works, as making the Reward of debt, and not of grace: for he had no such works: But Abraham was justified 1. By the act of faith, as a condition: therefore by an act under some notion. I know of few Divines that deny that faith is a condition of Justification. 2. However you confess your self that Abraham was Justified by faith as an instrument: and you say that it was by the act of faith (and not the habit.) And though you take this to be but a nominal act, and really a Passion, yet so do not others: for herein you are more singular (a thousand to one, as far as I am able to understand) then I am in the Doctrine which you charge with singularity. 3. The faith that Abraham was justified by, was not only a bare apprehension of Christs Righteousness, but a receiving of Christ as Christ, which is called, Works, by your party. 4. It was either By or Because of his External Obedience, that Abraham was justified. Proved. 1 By James 2.21. Was not Abraham our Father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the Altar? 2. From Gen. 22.12, 16, 18. By my self have I sworn saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not with-held thy son, thine only son, that in blessing I will bless thee, &c. And in thy seed shall all the Nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice▪ But then I must add, that ⟨p. 104⟩this was none of Abraham's first Justification, for he was just before this; but it was a renewed Acceptance and Approbation of God, and a kind of sentential Declaration thereof, by the voice of the Angel. But a Justification it was, and so James calls it.

Now I answer to your Minor, that Abraham was not justified by works in Pauls sense, but he was in Iames's sense, unless you will own the saying which you chide Althamer for. (Though I must say that in his Conciliationes Loc. Script. Althamer deals more mannerly with Iames.) Abraham was not justified by works, as making the Reward of debt, and not of grace: for he had no such works: But Abraham was justified 1. By the act of faith, as a condition: therefore by an act under some notion. I know of few Divines that deny that faith is a condition of Justification. 2. However you confess your self that Abraham was Justified by faith as an instrument: and you say that it was by the act of faith (and not the habit.) And though you take this to be but a nominal act, and really a Passion, yet so do not others: for herein you are more singular (a thousand to one, as far as I am able to understand) then I am in the Doctrine which you charge with singularity. 3. The faith that Abraham was justified by, was not only a bare apprehension of Christs Righteousness, but a receiving of Christ as Christ, which is called, Works, by your party. 4. It was either By or Because of his External Obedience, that Abraham was justified. Proved. 1 By