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

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⟩(saith he) Formalitates Theologicas; adding that the Romanists may grant to the Reformed, that the dispositions to Justification are not merits. And again, the Reformed grant to the Romanists, that by these dispositions, being joined with Faith, Justification is acquired not from merit, but Divine mercy alone. It is true, he declareth his own notion, how Faith Justifieth alone, viz. Absque necessitate ullius alterius humanae positivae actionis, non tamen absque negativâ illa dispositione non faciendi quicquam quod sit á Deo vetitum. But in the protract of his Discourse, he maketh our differences herein to be pura quaedam metaphysicalia ad salutem nihil necessaria, ²sed Galaticamur planè fratres, as Tertullian of old. There is a propensity in all to Galatize, to join Faith and Works under some notion or other, as to our Justification; whereas the Apostle maketh an immediate opposition between them; not in the person Justified, but as to the manner of Justification. The learned Brother allegeth a place out of Doctor Twice, in the title page, with a signal accent upon it. The words are (Verum in diverso genere ad justitiam Dei refertur Christi satisfactio, & fides nostra; Christi satisfactio ad eandem refertur per modum meriti & condignitatis;