The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

2. It is somewhat strange that a man should be judged at the last day, and justified in this life, just in the same way and manner, that is with respect unto Faith and Works, when the Scripture doth constantly ascribe our Justification before God unto Faith without Works; and the Judgment at the last day is said to be according unto Works, without any mention of Faith.

3. If Justification and eternal Judgment proceed absolute-on the same Grounds, Reasons, and Causes, then if men had not done what they shall be condemned for doing at the last day, they should have been justified in this life. But many shall be condemned only for sins against the light of nature, Rom. 2.12. as never having the written Law or Gospel ⟨p. 225⟩made known unto them. Wherefore unto such persons, to abstain from sins against the light of nature, would be sufficient unto their Justification, without any knowledge of Christ or the Gospel.

4. This Proposition, that God pardons men their Sins, gives them the Adoption of Children with a right unto the Heavenly Inheritance according to their Works; is not only foreign to the Gospel, but contradictory unto it, and destructive of it, as contrary unto all express Testimonies of the Scripture both in the old Testament and the new, where these things are spoken of. But that God judgeth all men, and rendereth unto all men at the last Judgment according unto their Works, is true and affirmed in the Scripture.

4. This Proposition, that God pardons men their Sins, gives them the Adoption of Children with a right unto the Heavenly Inheritance according to their Works; is not only foraign to the Gospel, but contradictory unto it, and destructive of it, as contrary unto all express Testimonies of the Scripture both in the old Testament and the new, where these things are spoken of. But that God judgeth all men, and rendreth unto all men at the last Judgment according unto their Works, is true and affirmed in the Scripture.