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Iustifying faith is euer accompanied with godli∣nesse, and care of godly life.
As naturall birth draweth not onely guilt, but also cor∣ruption, so faith wherein is our new birth, giueth not onely forgiuenesse of sinne, to iustification; but also sanctification to holinesse and newnesse of life. In the iustified man faith onely is
the seat and fountaine of spi∣rituall life; because as the quickning faculty and pow∣er of the liuing soule, dwel∣leth in the heart, so Christ who is our life, dwelleth in our faith, or in our hearts by faith. But yet we consist not spiritually of faith onely, but many other vertues and gra∣ces are required, to make vp the perfection of a Christian man; to which as to the o∣ther members frō the heart, so from faith life is imparted and communicated, that in them wee may bee aliue to God: which are signes and tokens of a iustified man, not any causes of iustificati∣on, but a declaration and te∣stimony of his being former∣ly iustified by the faith of Ie∣sus
Christ. So good workes follow a man being iustified, but are not precedent to iu∣stification: and nothing that man can doe, either by na∣ture or grace, concurreth to the act of iustification as a∣ny cause, but faith alone; for our hearts are purified by faith;* 1.1 by faith we reeiue the pro∣mise of the spirit; and the Law of the Spirit of Christ,* 1.2 which is in Christ Iesus,* 1.3 deliuered vs from the law of sinne and of death. Neither is the very act of faith any part of our righ∣teousnesse, but onely the me∣rit and obedience of Christ, apprehended and receiued by faith, but as the heart gi∣ueth life to the body, not by the substance of it selfe, which is but flesh, as the rest
of the body is but by the vi∣tall and quickning power of the soule, that is seated ther∣in: and as the hand feedeth the body, not as beeing it selfe the food of the body, but by receiuing and mini∣stering vnto it meate, wher∣by it is sustained: euen so faith iustifieth and giueth life by receiuing Christ, to bee our righteousnesse and life, in him receiuing forgiue∣nesse of sinnes, & inheritance among them that are sanctifi∣ed vnto eternall life.
Act. 15, 9.
Gal. 3, 14.
Rom. 8.2.