3. None that are justified by faith are justified by workes; all the faithfull are justified by faith, therefore none of the faithfull are justified by workes. The proposition is evidently proved by that opposition which the Apostle constantly maketh betweene faith and workes in the question of justification: asfirming that men though abounding with works of grace, are justified by faith without workes, and saved by faith and not by workes, Rom. 3. 28. & 4. 3, 4, 5. Ephes. 2. 8, 9. Tit. 3. 5.
4. If any be justified by workes, then either the regenerate man or the unregenerate: but neither the unregenerate, as the Papists con∣fesse: nor the regenerate, for they are justified already. Neither doe the Scriptures acknowledge any sorts or degrees of justification before God.
§. IV. 5. All that are justified by workes, are justified by that obe∣dience which they performe to the Law: But none are justified by the obedience which they performe to the Law: therefore none are justified by workes.
The proposition is manifest. Because the Law being a perfect rule of all inherent righteousnes, there neither are nor can be any good works, which are not prescribed in the Law. Yea, whatsoever worke is not con∣mable to the Law is sinne.
The assump•…•…ion may bee proved by many undeniable arguments. First, by all those places, which plainely testifie, that by the workes of the Law, that is, by obedience done to the Law, no man living shall be justi∣fied, Rom. 3. 20, 28. Gal. 2. 16. For by the workes of the Law wee un∣derstand all duties prescibed, and all that obedience which is required in the Law.
2. Those that are accursed by the Law are not justified by their obe∣dience of it. For to bee justified, is to bee blessed, Rom. 4. 6. and there∣fore to be justified, and to be accursed, are things repugnant.
But all men whatsoever, even those which seeke to bee justified by their obedience to the Law, are by the Law accursed. Therefore no man is justified by his obedience performed to the Law. And this is the Apostles argument, Gal. 3. 10. as I have shewed before. All transgres∣sours of the Law, are by the Law accursed.
All men since the fall are transgressours of the Law, Christ onely 〈◊〉〈◊〉 excepted; this assumption the Apostle omitteth, because hee taketh it for granted, as being a truth received among the faithfull in those times, though in these dayes denied by the justitiaries of Rome, but elsewhere it is by the Apostle expressed, as Rom. 3. 23. all have sin∣ned. Wherefore as God hath concluded all under sinne, Rom. 11. 32. Gal. 3. 22. so the Law hath concluded them under the curse.
3. All that are justified by their obedience to the Law doe perfectly fulfill it, by a totall, perfect, and perpetuall obedience: for he that doth not so fulfill it, by doing the things commanded, though he did nothing that is forbidden; by doing all, though he did the most; by continuing in doing all, and in that measure and degree, which the Law requireth, though he sinned but once in all his life, and that either by omission, or