Aphorism.
THey think that Faith is an instrumen∣tal * 1.1 efficient Cause of our Justification (which that properly it is not I have proved before) when if they understood that it justifieth but as à causa sine qua non, or Condition, they would easily yield that Works do so too.
Animadvers.
1. Do you think that neither Mr. Pemble, nor Calvin, nor any of all those eminent Divines whom you oppose, did un∣stand the nature and use of Faith in the point of Justifica∣tion?
2. Let Faith be either an Instrument, as many term it (and I have before noted the reason, as I conceive it:) or a Condi∣tion, as you will have it (and I am not against it) yet Faith doth justifie as it apprehendeth Christ's Satisfaction; by which indeed so apprehended, we are justified. Works do not concur with Faith in this act of apprehending Christ's Satisfaction; and therefore neither are they concurrent unto Justification.
Reply.
1. I confess you have me now at a disadvantage. I shall not easily rid my hands of this Platonick Argument, though the Logick of it may be well enough dealt with. If I say that Calvin, &c. knew not so much as I, it will seem Arrogancy: If I say they did know more in this, I seem to confess my self to err. But what if I speak freely what I think without dissembling, let it seem what it will? I think for the service Calvin and such others did the Church, and for the progress that Truth made by