A medium betwixt two extremes wherein it is proved that the whole first Adam…

And James had to do with such, who might be justly called Antinomians, i.e. such that abused the Grace of God, or Doctrine of free Grace, to encourage themselves in Sin, boasting of a false and presumptuous Faith, a dead Faith. Now James's work is to show the effects and nature of true Faith; therefore he speaks not of Justification in a proper Sense, when he says Abraham was justified by Works, but declaratively only. Faith wrought ⟨p. 50⟩not with Abraham's Works,¹ in the Justification of his Person at God's Bar, but in declaring and evincing that his Faith was true and saving, not a dead Faith; good Works being the Fruits of saving Faith▪ If this was not so, how could he say, in vers. 23. that The Scripture was fulfilled, ²which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for Righteousness? (not his Act of Faith, but the Object his Faith believed in, or took hold of.) The Justification of a Sinner in a proper Sense is one thing, and the Justification of a Believer, as such a one, is another thing. How then can Mr. Clark say, the Justification Paul speaks of, and that which James speaks of, is all one and the same thing?

And James had to do with such, who might be justly called Antinomians, i.e. such that abused the Grace of God, or Doctrine of free Grace, to encourage themselves in Sin, boasting of a false and presumptuous Faith, a dead Faith. Now James's work is to shew the effects and nature of true Faith; therefore he speaks not of Justification in a proper Sense, when he says Abraham was justified by Works, but declaratively only. Faith wrought ⟨p. 50⟩not with Abraham's Works,¹ in the Justification of his Person at God's Bar, but in declaring and evincing that his Faith was true and saving, not a dead Faith; good Works being the Fruits of saving Faith▪ If this was not so, how could he say, in vers. 23. that The Scripture was fulfilled,