Of free justification

Because Faith alone with fixed eyes looks upon this Son and ¹Mediator, and cleaves unto him, who only could bring about this Achievement of our Redemption with the Father; therefore it is, that it alone hath this virtue and power of justifying, not with works, nor for works, but only for the sake of the Mediator, on whom it relies. Therefore that is false, and worthy to be rejected with disdain, ⟨p. 47⟩which some unhappy and wicked School-Divines affirm in discoursing of Charity, to wit, that it is the form of Faith, and that it must not by any means be separated from faith, no more than the vital Soul can be separated from the body, or the essential form from matter, which otherwise is a rude and unwieldy Mass. In answering of whom, I think there is no need of many words, seeing the whole meaning and drift of Scripture, if rightly understood, the very end of the Law; seeing Christ, and the instruction of the Apostles, and the whole nature of the Gospel seem to be manifestly against them, and wholly to overturn that most absurd Opinion by so many Oracles, so many Signs, Examples, and Arguments to the contrary. Now if that be form, which gives subsistence to a thing, how much more truly must it be said, that faith is the form of charity, without which all the works of charity are base and contemptible; as again the form of faith is not charity, but Christ only, and the promise of the word.

BEcause Faith alone with fixed eyes looks upon this Son and ¹Mediator, and cleaves unto him, who only could bring about this Atchievement of our Redemption with the Father; therefore it is, that it alone hath this vertue and power of justifying, not with works, nor for works, but only for the sake of the Mediator, on whom it relies. Therefore that is false, and worthy to be rejected with disdain,