Though I deny not, that in the performance of those duties, which belong to this Life, Faith is not separated from Charity: So if we look upward to things, that are Divine and Eternal, if we contemplate and view, what that is, which can help us at our appearance before the Dreadful Judgment Seat of God, and appease his Wrath, and deliver us from Eternal Destruction, and conquer Death and the Devil, and regain the favour of God, and Justify us, and procure us the Crown of Life, Faith only in the Mediator doth so bear rule in these affairs, and so fully performs all things requisite to our Salvation and Redemption, that here ⟨p. 443⟩Charity hath nothing to do; for the Kingdom is not promised or due to you, because you love this or that Neighbour after your manner, but contrarily, because you neither love God as you ought, nor your Neighbour as your self, therefore unavoidable destruction is due to you, unless Faith only through the Mediator should come in for your help, and set you free from the condemnation due unto you, notwithstanding your Charity. Faith is so far from needing to be joined with Charity for Justification, that unless Charity it self were justified by Faith, it could not stand, nor keep it self from falling to ruin and Destruction.
Though I deny not, that in the performance of those duties, which belong to this Life, Faith is not separated from Charity: So if we look upward to things, that are Divine and Eternal, if we contemplate and view, what that is, which can help us at our appearance before the Dreadful Iudgment Seat of God, and appease his Wrath, and deliver us from Eternal Destruction, and conquer Death and the Devil, and regain the favour of God, and Iustifie us, and procure us the Crown of Life, Faith only in the Mediatour doth so bear rule in these affairs, and so fully performs all things requisite to our Salvation and Redemption, that here ⟨p. 443⟩Charity hath nothing to do; for the Kingdom is not promised or due to you, because you love this or that Neighbour after your manner, but contrarily, because you neither love God as you ought, nor your Neighbour as your self, therefore unavoidable destruction is due to you, unless Faith only through the Mediatour should come in for your help, and set you free from the condemnation due unto you, notwithstanding your Charity. Faith is so far from needing to be joyned with Charity for Iustification, that unless Charity it self were justified by Faith, it could not stand, nor keep it self from falling to ruine and Destruction.
