The marrow of true justification, or, Justification without works containing the substance of two…

Of this sort are the Dutch Arminians, in pursuance of their main Doctrine of Free Will; they exalt Man's Works, and therefore affirm, that he is Justified, not by Christ's righteousness, but by his own Faith; God having required of him, instead of full Obedience to the Law of Works, that now he should believe on his Son; and that for so doing he should be Justified and saved, as he should have been before for perfect Obedience: So that with this sort (as one observes) Faith is that righteousness for which we are Justified before God. Moreover, they tell us, that Faith is a belief of the Truth of the Gospel, so as to live according to it; thus it includeth, and not excludeth Works; and that Faith and Works, or Obedience to the Gospel, is our righteousness for which we are Justified and saved. At the same time you must remember that they do not own Faith to be the Gift of God, or a Grace of the Holy Spirit; but that which the Creature has power, when the Gospel is Preached, to act by common assistance, and influences, he hath power to do, and perform, as any other Duties of Religion, as to Pray, hear the Word, &c. And thus they make the whole stress of Man's Salvation (after all that Christ hath done) to depend upon the depraved and corrupt Will of the Creature; and faith; such a condition of Justification and Eternal Life, as may or may not be performed, which, if true, it might so fall out, that not one Soul might be saved, notwithstanding the precious price, paid by Jesus Christ to redeem them; for by the same purity of Reason one Man may resist the offers of Grace, and not believe in Christ, or exert that power every Man may as well do […] too. See Mr. Troughton's Luther us Redivivus, p. 2.

Of this sort are the Dutch Arminians, in pursuance of their main Doctrine of Free Will; they exalt Man's Works, and therefore affirm, that he is Justified, not by Christ's righteousness, but by his own Faith; God having required of him, instead of full Obedience to the Law of Works, that now he should believe on his Son; and that for so doing he should be Justified and saved, as he should have been before for perfect Obedience: So that with this sort (as one observes) Faith is that righteousness for which we are Justified before God. Moreover, they tell us, that Faith is a belief of the Truth of the Gospel, so as to live according to it; thus it includeth, and not excludeth Works; and that Faith and Works, or Obedience to the Gospel, is our righteousness for which we are Justified and saved. At the same time you must remember that they do not own Faith to be the Gift of God, or a Grace of the Holy Spirit; but that which the Creature has power, when the Gospel is Preached, to act by common assistance, and influences, he hath power to do, and perform, as any other Duties of Religion, as to Pray, hear the Word, &c. And thus they make the whole stress of Man's Salvation (after all that Christ hath done) to depend upon the depraved and corrupt Will of the Creature; and faith; such a condition of Justification and Eternal Life, as may or may not be performed, which, if true, it might so fall out, that not one Soul might be saved, notwithstanding the precious price, paid by Jesus Christ to redeem them; for by the same purity of Reason one Man may resist the offers of Grace, and not believe in Christ, or exert that power every Man may as well do too. See Mr. Troughton's Luther us Redivivus, p. 2.