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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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2. By Reason: How can those Works justify us which defiles us? Isa. 64.6. Our ⟨p. 133⟩righteousnesses are as filthy rags. Bona opera non praecedunt justificationem, sed sequuntur justificatum: Good Works are not an Usher to go before Justification, but an Handmaid to follow it.
2. By Reason: How can those Works justify us which defiles us? Isa. 64.6. Our ⟨p. 133⟩righteousnesses are as filthy rags. Bona opera non praecedunt justificationem, sed sequuntur justificatum: Good Works are not an Usher to go before Iustification, but an Handmaid to follow it.
Object. But doth not the Apostle James say, Abraham was justified by works?
Object. But doth not the Apostle Iames say, Abraham was justified by works?
Resp. The answer is easy, Works declare us to be righteous before Men, but they do not make us righteous before God. Works are Evidences of our Justification, not Causes. This Name only must be graven upon the Golden Plate of our High Priest Christ, The LORD our righteousness.
Resp. The answer is easie, Works declare us to be righteous before Men, but they do not make us righteous before God. Works are Evidences of our Iustification, not Causes. This Name only must be graven upon the Golden Plate of our High Priest Christ, The LORD our righteousness.