Utrum horum, or, The nine and thirty articles of the Church of England, at large recited, and compared with the doctrines of those commonly called Presbyterians on the one side, and the tenets of the Church of Rome on the other both faithfully quoted from their own most approved authors / by Hen. Care.

The eleventh Article of the Church of England.

Of the Justification of Man.

WE are accounted Righte∣ous before God only for the merit of our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ by Faith, & not for our own works and de∣servings: Wherefore that we are justified by Faith only, is a most wholesom Doctrine, and very full of Comfort, as more large∣ly is expressed in the Homtly of Justification.

The Presbyterians.

Those whom God effectually Cal∣leth, he also freely Justifieth, not by insusing Righteousness into them, but by pardoning their Sins, and by accoun∣ting and accepting their Persons as Righ∣teous, not for any thing wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone; not by imputing Faith it self, the Act of Believing, or any Evange∣lical Obedience to them, as their Righteousness; but by imputing the O∣bedience and Satisfaction of Christ unto them, they receiving and resting on him and his Righteousness by Faith, which Faith they have not of them∣selves, it is the Gift of God.

Faith, thus receiving and resting on Christ and his Righteousness, is the a∣lone Instrument of Justification; and yet it is not alone in the Person justi∣fied, but is ever accompanied with all other saving Graces, and is no dead Faith, but worketh by Love.

Christ, by his Obedience and Death, did fully discharge the Debt of all those

who are thus justified, and did make a proper, real, and full satisfaction to his Fathers Justice in their behalf: yet inasmuch as he was given by the Fa∣ther for them, and his obedience and satisfaction accepted in their stead, and both freely, not for any thing in them; their Justification is only of free Grace, that both the exact Justice, and rich Grace of God, might be glo∣rified in the Justification of Sinners.

The Papists.

Whosoever shall say, That the wicked are justified by Faith only, understand∣ing that nothing else is required to co-ope∣rate for the obtaining the Grace of Ju∣stification, or that it is not necessary for a Man to be prepared and disposed by the motion of his Will, Let him be Ana∣thema.

Whosoever shall say, That a Man is justified either by the only imputation of the Righteousness of Christ, or by the on∣ly Remission of Sins; or, That the Grace whereby we are justified, is the only Fa∣vour of God, Let him be Accursed.

Notes

• Ass. Conf. cap. 11.
• Conc. Trid. Sess. 6. cap. 9.
• Ibid. can. 11.