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No Salvation. What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man* 1.1 say, he hath faith, and have no workes? Can faith save him? Jam. 2. 14.
Offer the sacrifice of righteousnesse (saith David) and put thy trust in the Lord, Psalm. 4. 5, or else thy trust is vaine.
That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the workes of God, but keepe his com∣mandements, saith the same Prophet, Psalm.
87. 7, otherwise they might be one day asha∣med of theira 1.2 hope: faith without the obser∣vation of the Commandements, being but a deadb 1.3 faith, and not a livelyc 1.4 ashamed.
The Jewes were told, that unlesse they did thorowly amend their waies, and their do∣ings &c. they did but trust in lying words, (which would deceive them,) to say, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, though they sayd it never so often, Jer: 7. 4, 5.
Not every one that saith unto me Lord, Lord, shall enter into the Kingdome of Heaven, but he that doth the will of my father which is in Heaven, Matt. 7. 21.
Because they regard not the workes of God, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up, Psalm. 28. 5. See Psalm. 78. 32, 33.
He might well say, say, for they doe but say, they have true faith, who have no workes.
Psal. 119. 116.
James 2. 17.
1 Pet. 1. 3.