Faith is neither a Condition nor Qualification in the Office of Justification; with several things of the same sort as above recited.
Most of these were then included in the Paper, the Vote refers to; which with the other things fur∣ther Collected, shall be proved to be in the Printed Books of the foresaid Authors, and Book and Page cited for each, when it shall be required. Yea, at great deal more, if not worse, of the same sort.
By these things it's manifest what the difference is about, tho' a noise hath been raised about things remote from the true occasion, that while we seemed to be on∣ly on the defensive part, their Errors might receive Countenance as if unopposed, and the abettors there∣of might less appear the cause of our Divisions.
Answ. 3. Altho' Brethren from a Zeal for Peace condescended to mention but three particulars in the third Paper, yet it's too evident, that the Dissenters adhere to their own Paper (called the first) and refuse ours, because this doth provide some Defence against some of the Errors, which our difference is about, (the same cause for which they rejected the Articles in 1694.) And it's plain by what their Paper saith of Ju∣stification, they had this our Paper of Ninety four be∣fore them, and therefore must know, that we insisted under that Head to have it clearly expressed,
That none are justified in the sight of God, or Entitled to Eter∣nal Life, before they are effectually called, or whilst they are unregenerate, or in unbelief;
And that Men must repent in order to forgiveness; as also that con∣tinued Repentance, Faith and Holyness of Heart, and Life, are by the constitution of the Gospel, as well as in the Nature of the things themselves, necessary to salvation,
&c. Our Dissenting Brethren knew this, and yet insert nothing in that first Paper sufficient to this purpose. By the Reporters arguing against us, their not mentioning those things is their disowning of them,