Of free justification

But you will say, Shall we not all come to Judgment? Must we not all appear before the Tribunal of God? It is true, we ¹shall all come: But Augustin tells us of a twofold Judgment, one of condemnation, and another of discretion, whereby the Goats shall be separated from the Lambs, and not Lambs condemned with the Goats. It is an Article of my faith, that we shall all of us come to Judgment, but I do hope the ⟨p. 399⟩Elect of God will not come into the Judgment of Condemnation. And here we must carefully distinguish between the Lambs and the Goats; between those that are united to Christ by Faith, and the damned crew of Unbelievers. For though in this just Judgment of God, every one shall give account to God of all their Works. And there is no doubt but a reward will be given suitable to every man's Works; but in a far different manner to the one and the other. For they who seek for Salvation not by Faith, nor the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness only, but by the Works of the Law; they shall receive a reward according to the desert of their deeds; upon this condition, that they shall live by the Sentence of the Law, if they fulfil the Law as they ought; but if not, what else must they expect, but that, according to the just Decree of the Law, no violation thereof should be found so small, as not to make the sinner liable to Condemnation, and justly so. For he that hath no power in himself to obtain Righteousness, and is not willing to receive it, when it is offered by another, if he suffer the punishment due to his sins, let him not accuse the Law of unjustice, but himself of unbelief.

But you will say, Shall we not all come to Iudgment? Must we not all appear before the Tribunal of God? It is true, we ¹shall all come: But Augustin tells us of a twofold Iudgment, one of condemnation, and another of discretion, whereby the Goats shall be separated from the Lambs, and not Lambs condemned with the Goats. It is an Article of my faith, that we shall all of us come to Iudgment, but I do hope the ⟨p. 399⟩Elect of God will not come into the Iudgment of Condemnation. And here we must carefully distinguish between the Lambs and the Goats; between those that are united to Christ by Faith, and the damned crew of Unbelievers. For though in this just Iudgment of God, every one shall give account to God of all their Works. And there is no doubt but a reward will be given suitable to every man's Works; but in a far different manner to the one and the other. For they who seek for Salvation not by Faith, nor the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness only, but by the Works of the Law; they shall receive a reward according to the desert of their deeds; upon this condition, that they shall live by the Sentence of the Law, if they fulfil the Law as they ought; but if not, what else must they expect, but that, according to the just Decree of the Law, no violation thereof should be found so small, as not to make the sinner liable to Condemnation, and justly so. For he that hath no power in himself to obtain Righteousness, and is not willing to receive it, when it is offered by another, if he suffer the punishment due to his sins, let him not accuse the Law of unjustice, but himself of unbelief.