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An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it…
An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it was carried on in the Lords Days exercises in Dartmouth, in the first year of liberty, 1688 / by John Flavell.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1692
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Q. 6. Is it not partly by Christ's Righteousness, and partly our own?
A. No: by Christ's Righteousness, without any mixture of ours. Rom. 3.28. Therefore we conclude, that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Q. 7. But doth not James says otherwise. Jam. 2.14. What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he, hath faith, and have not works, Can faith save him?
A. The two Apostles contradict not one another. Paul speaks of Justification before God; and James of justifying our Faith before men.
A. The two Apostles contradict not one another. Paul speaks of Justification before God; and Iames of justifying our Faith before men.