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

Besides all this, I must distinguish of Justification, Legal and Evangelical, respective to the promises and threatenings of the Law and Gospel, which do differ. No works at all did justify Abraham, from the charge of the Law, Thou art a sinner, ⟨p. 107⟩as being the Righteousness of the Law, and the matter of that Justification. Nor will any works at all so justify us. But it doth not follow, that therefore no works will justify a man from the false accusation of being an Impenitent, Unbeliever, and so having no part in Christ, whose Righteousness must stop the mouth of the Law: Or that no works are the matter of the righteousness required in this Constitution, [He that believeth shall be saved: Repent that your sins may be blotted out.] Which are here required as the condition of our freedom from the Law, by the righteousness of Christ. In a word, Paul bestows a large dispute to prove that no works of ours do answer the expectation of the Law, and so cannot justify us themselves from its Accusation. Its an ill consequence, that therefore Paul proveth that no works of mans do answer the special constitution or condition of the Gospel [Repent and Believe in Christ, &c.] and so are not the Condition of our interest in that perfect righteousness of Christ, which is the only valuable cause of our foresaid Justification.

Besides all this, I must distinguish of Justification, Legal and Evangelical, respective to the promises and threatnings of the Law and Gospel, which do differ. No works at all did justifie Abraham, from the charge of the Law, Thou art a sinner, ⟨p. 107⟩as being the Righteousness of the Law, and the matter of that Justification. Nor will any works at all so justifie us. But it doth not follow, that therefore no works will justifie a man from the false accusation of being an Impenitent, Unbeliever, and so having no part in Christ, whose Righteousness must stop the mouth of the Law: Or that no works are the matter of the righteousness required in this Constitution, [He that believeth shall be saved: Repent that your sins may be blotted out.] Which are here required as the condition of our freedom from the Law, by the righteousness of Christ. In a word, Paul bestows a large dispute to prove that no works of ours do answer the expectation of the Law, and so cannot justifie us themselves from its Accusation. Its an ill consequence, that therefore Paul proveth that no works of mans do answer the special constitution or condition of the Gospel [Repent and Believe in Christ, &c.] and so are not the Condition of our interest in that perfect righteousness of Christ, which is the only valuable cause of our foresaid Justification.