A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is

It is no Contradiction to exclude Works form a Conditionality, ¹as to the Act of Justification, and yet to affirm them requisite necessarily in the Subject Justified. I wonder at the wilfulness in some, who accuse them as a contradiction, when Protestant Writers do a thousand times over illustrate this, by divers Similitudes. Because Repentance is required as well as Faith, must their office and work be confounded? Must all they be Conditions? Certainly, it's not Repentance, but Faith, that receiveth the pardon: Yet Repentance qualifieth the Subject, and denoteth it capable of it▪ Is Sanctification a Condition of Justification, because they are inseparable one from another?

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That distinction of Faith justifying, ¹quae viva, but not quâ viva, which IS lively and working, but not AS lively and working; is not trifling as the Remonstrants say, nor is there any cheat in it. Most of the Fundamentals of Religion, are distinguished from confining errors, by such distinctions. If a man say, Christus qui Deus mortuus est, saith true; but if he should say, Quâ Deus, would he not speak blasphemy? And this I bring in the rather, because there are some who affect, and glory in a moderating way, thinking the Papists and Protestants do not so Fundamentally differ in the Point of Justification, but that they may be reconciled; whereas our learned Worthies, at first declared, that if the Romanists and we differed in no other point but this, this were enough to have no Communion with them. Spalatensis, one of the unhappy Catholic Moderators; writing of the Protestants, who affirm, that Faith alone Justifieth, yet such a Faith as is lively, and worketh by love, so that although Faith Justifieth, yet other graces are present, though not proximely attingent of Justification, Ecce ⟨image 303⟩