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"worketh good, to the Jew firft, and also to "the Gentile for there is no refpect of per"fons with God"." For as he prefently argues in words, applicable not only, as Calvin contemptuoufly contends", to the Jews, but generally, as the context indifputably proves, to " every foul of man" that defires to be justified, "Not the hearers of the law fhall be juft before God, but the doers of the law

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Shall be justified"." Words, which afford no weak foundation for the opinion, cited with approbation by Bifhop Bull, in" that palmary "work," as the late Bishop Horne denominated it, in a difcourse from this place, “That Paul "defired fo earneftly to recommend good "works, as neceffary to juftification and eter"nal life, in order to put the reader on his "guard; left, by misunderstanding his fubfe

quent doctrine, wherein he teaches juftifica"tion by faith without works, he fhould find "a ftumbling-block, or fall into error." Nay,

Rom. ii. 3-11.

Qui hoc loco abutuntur ad erigendam operum juftificationem, etiam puerorum cachinnis funt digniffimi. Proinde 'ineptum eft et extra locum, huc longas de juftificatione quæftiones ingerere, ad folvendum tam futile cavillum. Tantum enim urget apud Judæos Apoftolus illud, de quo meminerat, legis judicium, &c. Calv. in loc.

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P. Horne's Sixteen Sermons, p. 66.

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our bleffed Saviour himself, who, when he pronounced the forgiveness of fins, declared to the finner, "Thy faith hath faved thee;" alfo cautioned the object of his mercy to "fin no "more, left a worfe thing come upon him":" -and generally he pronounced to all men that works, and not faith alone, are the conditions of everlasting happiness, when he delared, "If "thou wilt enter into life, keep the command66 ments;" "If ye know these things, happy

are ye if ye do them;" "In the day of judg"ment by thy words thou shalt be justified, "and by thy words thou shalt be condemn“ed":"« Behold, I come quickly, and my "reward is with me, to give every man ac“cording as his work fhall be. I am Alpha "and Omega, the beginning and the end, the "first and the laft. Bleffed are they that do "his commandments, that they may have right

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ciam, vifum eft, quæ ad eum fcribit doctiffimus Fftius, commemorare: "Sane," inquit, " videri poteft, Paulum idcirco tam "diligenter commendare voluiffe bona opera, ut ad juftitiam "ac vitam æternam neceffaria, quo Lectorem præmuniret, ne fequentem ipfius doctrinam, qua juftificationem tradit "ex fide fine operibus, male intelligendo offendiculum pateretur, aut in errorem incurreret." Certe eatenus faltem ei lubens affentior, ut credam, non fine magna Dei providentia id factum fuiffe. Harm. Apoft. Diff. ii. cap. iv. fect. 8.

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Luke vii. 50.
John xiii. 17.

• John v. 14.
"Matt. xii. 37.

"to the tree of life *."

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"Come, ye bleffed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for 66 you from the foundation of the world; for "I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat; I "was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a ftranger, and ye took me in; naked, and ye "clothed me; I was fick, and "I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Verily I fay unto you, Inafmuch as ye have "done it unto one of the least of these my "brethren, ye have done it unto me. Depart "from me, ye curfed, into everlasting fire, pre"pared for the devil and his angels: for verily I fay unto you, Inafmuch as ye did it "not to one of the least of these, ye did it not "unto me Y." "The hour is coming, in the “which all that are in the graves shall hear "the voice of the Son of man, and fhall come "forth; THEY THAT HAVE DONE GOOD 66 UNTO THE RESURRECTION OF LIFE, AND “THEY THAT HAVE DONE EVIL UNTO THE 66 RESURRECTION OF DAMNATION "."

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How different from thefe fcriptural exposition of the terms of everlafting happiness, are the remonftrances and exhortations, addreffed by the Solifidian to his hearers! " Why doft "thou lean to works," is the expoftulation of

Rev. xxii 12, 13, 14.

John v. 48, 49.*

! Matt. xxv. 34.

a late minifter of our Church, "fince falvation "is by faith? Why doft thou difquiet thyfelf "about attaining the righteoufnefs of the law, "and thereby fuffer the law to disturb the peace of thy confcience, fince thou haft a far "better righteoufnefs, which ought to reign "there, even the righteoufnefs, which is of "God by faith 2 ?” "Remember thou art not

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required to obey in order to be faved for thine obedience; but thou art already fav "ed b." "The fingle qualification for falva<tion which Chrift expects," fays a living teacher of our Ifrael," is to believe the Gof

pel: for he that believeth fhall be faved. "What! if they do fuch and fuch duties? "Not a word of the kind. What if they per"form fuch obligations? Not a syllable like it. "It is an abfolute promife of the Lord Jefus, "founded on his own abfolute power. Here "are neither ifs, nor buts; no conditions nor "terms"," "No previous preparation;" it is thus that the Arminian Founder of Methodifm preached to his focieties; "no fitnefs is "required at the time of communicating, but 66 a fenfe of our ftate, of our utter finfulness " and helpleffnefs: every one, who knows that "he is juft fit for hell, is juft fit to come to

a Romaine's Life of Faith. Works, vol. i. p. 49.

b Walk of Faith. Ibid. 292.

Hawker's Prop against all Despair, p. 15,

"Chrift in this and all other ways of his ap "pointment." "If you are the chief of fin"ners," exclaims his Calviniftic competitor; "if you are murderers of fathers and mur"derers of mothers; if you are emphatically "the dung and offscouring of all things; yet "if you believe on Jefus Chrift, and cry unto " him with the fame faith, as the expiring thief, Lord, remember me now thou art in thy kingdom, I will pawn my eternal falva"tion upon it, if he does not fhortly tranflate

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you to his heavenly paradife;" "Whofo"ever believes in his heart, may be affured "that his pardon is fealed in heaven, notwith"ftanding he has lived in an open breach of "God's commandments all his life time be" fore? :" "If a man is once juftified, he re"mains fo to all eternity":" "It is forry di66 vinity to talk of men's doing fo and so, to keep themselves in a juftified state "."

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That effects, of a very different character from thofe "good works," which the Apostle teaches us the Scriptures were given to promote, fhould refult from reprefentations of the conditions of happiness fo much at variance with the Scriptures, is a confequence

• Wesley's Fourth Journal, p. 47.

• Whitefield's Works, vol. v. p. Ibid. vol. iv. p. 28.

Ibid. p. 209.

387.

Ibid. vol. i. p. 214.
See 2 Tim. iii. 17.

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