Of free justification

Let us proceed to the other parts of the Argument. The Minor follows next, But the Regenerate in Christ, whom Faith hath once ⟨p. 334⟩justified, having just now received Divine grace, they attain unto such a degree of Charity, that they are wanting in nothing that is requisite to the most perfect Obedience of the Law. But I would fain know where those Regenerate Men are, and who they are, for it is abundantly evident, that they who are the maintainers of this Doctrine, are no such Men themselves. Their lives are so well known, that there is no need of other Arguments to prove it. They brag of so many and great things […] Righteousness, Grace and Charity, whose Virtues, (whereof they so much boast) and manner of life, if they be compared with their profession, what is more disagreeing? What more differing from Righteousness? Whereby hath Peace and Grace less flourished, and Iniquity more abounded in manners?

Let us proceed to the other parts of the Argument. The Minor follows next, But the Regenerate in Christ, whom Faith hath once ⟨p. 334⟩justified, having just now received Divine grace, they attain unto such a degree of Charity, that they are wanting in nothing that is requisite to the most perfect Obedience of the Law. But I would fain know where those Regenerate Men are, and who they are, for it is abundantly evident, that they who are the maintainers of this Doctrine, are no such Men themselves. Their lives are so well known, that there is no need of other Arguments to prove it. They brag of so many and great things 〈…〉 Righteousness, Grace and Charity, whose Vertues, (whereof they so much boast) and manner of life, if they be compared with their profession, what is more disagreeing? What more differing from Righteousness? Whereby hath Peace and Grace less flourished, and Iniquity more abounded in manners?

In what times hath the love (if not of all, at least of most Men) waxed so cold? It is needless here to complain of the vulgar. This complaint chiefly concerns those that sit in the Chair of Hierarchy, and are employed in Ecclesiastical Functions, and I wish there were […] as just cause thereof, as we see in most of […]. But perhaps they will defend themselves […] the example of the Pharisees: Of whom […] is said, that they sat in the Chair of Moses, […] taught that which was true, though they […] not act according to what they taught. And indeed, the Example whereunto they compare themselves, would please me well […] unless I judged them to be worse then […] Pharisees of those days: For though the