Reply.
1. I believe when the Holy Ghost speaks plainly, he means as he speaks.
2. I would you had told me what Interpretation is so generally received. Surely I have read of di∣vers Interpretations by Protestants, one contradict∣ing what others maintain; and therefore they do not so generally hold to one. Some say, It speaks of Justification coram Deo; some say, only coram hominibus; some, that it speaks of the Justification of the person; others, only of the Justification of his Faith, &c.
3. To your Hoc est Corpus meum, I answered before. It were an odd thing, if when we bring the express words of Scripture for any proof, it should be put off by Hoc est Corpus meum; or, Ego sum Vitis.
4. The words you cite, vers. 21, 23. will not prove what you intend. For if it be meant of [Ju∣stification immediately on our first believing,] or our Justification as begun (which you still insist on) then how can James prove by Works many years after, that the Faith was fruitful, when he was first justi∣fied by it.
5. Indeed the words you cite, undeniably prove that James and you speak not of one and the same Justification, or of Justification in the same sense. For you speak of it as begun, and James speaks of it only as continued (Legal Justification I mean) up∣on the performance of that Obedience which is the