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Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the moral law and the covenants, from the…Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the morall law and the covenants, from the…
Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the moral law and the covenants, from the errors of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially, Antinomians in XXX lectures, preached at Laurence-Jury, London / by Anthony Burgess ...Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the morall law and the covenants, from the errours of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially, Antinomians in XXX lectures, preached at Laurence-Jury, London / by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by James Young for Thomas Underhill, 1647
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7. They are necessary by a natural connection with faith, and the 1Spirit of God: Hence it's called faith which worketh by love. The Papist Lorinus thinketh we speak a contradiction, because sometimes we say, faith only justifieth; sometimes, that unless our faith be working, it cannot justify us: but here is no contradiction; for it's only thus: Faith, which is a living faith, doth justify, though not as it doth live; for faith hath two notable acts: ⟨p. 44⟩1. To apprehend and lay hold upon Christ, and thus it justifieth. 2. To purify and cleanse the heart, and to stir up other graces, and thus it doth not: And thus Paul and James may be reconciled; for James brings that very passage to prove Abraham was not justified by faith alone, which Paul brings to prove he was; because one intends to show that his faith was a working faith; and the other, that that alone did concur to justify: and thus in this sense some learned men say, Good works are necessary to preserve a man in the state of justification, although they do not immediately concur to that act: as in a man, although his shoulders and breast do not concur immediately to the act of seeing; yet if a mans eye and head were not knit to those parts, he could not see: and so, though the fire do not burn as it is light, yet it could not burn unless it were so; for it supposeth then the subject would be destroyed. It's a saying of John Huss, Where good works are not without, faith cannot be within, Ubi bona opera non apparent ad extra, ibi fides non est ad intra: Therefore, as Christ, while he remained the second Person, was invisible, but when he was incarnated, then he became visible; so must thy faith be incarnated into works, and it must become flesh as it were.
7. They are necessary by a naturall connexion with faith, and the 1Spirit of God: Hence it's called faith which worketh by love. The Papist Lorinus thinketh we speak a contradiction, because sometimes wee say, faith only justifieth; sometimes, that unlesse our faith be working, it cannot justifie us: but here is no contradiction; for it's onely thus: Faith, which is a living faith, doth justifie, though not as it doth live; for faith hath two notable acts: ⟨p. 44⟩