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

and though I do not say you recede from your Assertions, yet you much mollify them, that I need not therein contend with you. But here is the stick. Let it be demonstrated, that whereas the Scripture in the current of it attributes Justification to believing only: as through faith, and by Faith, and through faith in his blood, that you can as truly say, its received by love, and its through love of his blood shed for our sakes, &c. This is a little of that much which might be said to the state of the question. This I judge new Doctrine, justifying Repentance, justifying Charity. And in my Letter I laid down an Argument, Rom. 4. Concerning Abraham's, Justification, the Pattern of all others. To this you reckon up many Answers, but I see not the Argument shaken by it. First you say, you exclude a co-operation ⟨p. 178⟩effective, but why do we strive about words? You do not exclude works justifying, as well as faith, let the expressions be what they will. Whereas Paul saith, he would be found having the Righteousness which is by faith, you will add, and which is by love, by zeal. 2. You desire it to be proved, that Paul excludes all works under any notion; I think its very easily done: First, because of the immediate opposition between Faith and Works; now you will contradict Pauls Argument, and give a tertium, works that are of Grace. But the Apostles opposition is so immediate here and in other places, between faith and any thing of ours, that he admits of no medium. 2. He instances in Abraham's works, and excludes them: now were Abraham's works, works done by the mere strength of the Law? Did not Abraham's Obedience, and other works flow from Grace? Were Abraham's works in opposition to Christ? Yet even these are excluded. 3. He excludes all works under any notion by the opposition, justifying, covering, all is wholly attributed unto God. 4. The Assertion is universal: The Apostle saith, without works in general, ver. 6. And he works not, ver. 5. Lastly, By the testimony he brings from the Psalmist, that blessedness is where sin is not imputed, where it is forgiven; These reasons do evidence that he excludes works under all notions in the act of Justification, though not from the person justified. 3. You say, how then saith James true? But I ask, if there be justifying works, how saith Paul true? But again, James saith true:

and though I do not say you recede from your Assertions, yet you much mollifie them, that I need not therein contend with you. But here is the stick. Let it be demonstrated, that whereas the Scripture in the current of it attributes Justification to believing only: as through faith, and by Faith, and through faith in his blood, that you can as truly say, its received by love, and its through love of his blood shed for our sakes, &c. This is a little of that much which might be said to the state of the question. This I judge new Doctrine, justifying Repentance, justifying Charity. And in my Letter I laid down an Argument,