Of free justification

But here again a place of St. Paul out of the same Epistle is objected, ¹where writing to the Galatians, he speaks of Faith, that works by Charity. From hence the Tridentine Divines infer a necessary connection between Faith and Charity; so that Faith without Charity, like matter without form, avails nothing to the ²perfection of Righteousness. And they say of Charity, which they ⟨p. 504⟩call Righteousness inherent in us, That it is so impossible that it should be separated from Faith in the concernment of Justification, that they assert it only to be the formal cause of our Justification. But it is ³not difficult to answer to this place of Paul. For in that Epistle the Apostle endeavours with great diligence to call back his Galatians to the Righteousness of Faith from which they had swerved. In the mean while, lest they should be seduced by a counterfeit Faith, by these words he intimates, what Faith it is, that he speaks of: Not such a Faith as is idle and dead without Works, but which worketh by ⁴Love. And in this sense we deny not that Faith is not alone. But what consequence is that?

But here again a place of St. Paul out of the same Epistle is objected, ¹where writing to the Galatians, he speaks of Faith, that works by Charity. From hence the Tridentine Divines infer a necessary connexion between Faith and Charity; so that Faith without Charity, like matter without form, avails nothing to the ²perfection of Righteousness. And they say of Charity, which they ⟨p. 504⟩call Righteousness inherent in us, That it is so impossible that it should be separated from Faith in the concernment of Iustification, that they assert it only to be the formal cause of our Iustification. But it is