III. Justification is by faith only. The grand privilege

of justification described at large: As consisting, 1. In

the remission of our sins. 2. In the accounting of us

righteous; the distinction between remission of sins and

justification cleared, from the scripture: And, 3. In our re-

ceiving a right and title to eternal life. Bishop Downame

quoted. God the author or efficient, and faith the instru-

mental cause of our justification. Justification by faith

*only proved from the Homily on Salvation, and the Ele-

venth Article. The same made evident from John, iii. 16.

-v. 24. Rom. iii. 20. 28. Gal. iii. 11. Clement of Rome is
cited. Rom. v. 1. ix. 33. x. 10. Gal. ii. 15, 16.

IV. Works have no part in our justification. This

demonstrated from the Homily on the Salvation of Man-

kind, from the Homily on the Misery of Man, and from

the Liturgies. The same evinced from Rom. iv. 4. iv. 16.

and xi. 6. Gal. v. 3. Eph. ii. 8, 9. Some make good
works a part of justifying faith. Faith is not the meritori-
ous, but only the instrumental cause or means of our justi-
fication. A few words to unjustified sinners. An address
to justified saints.

V. Justifying faith produces good works after justifica-

tion. This showed from the Homily of Salvation, from

the Homily on faith, from that on fasting, and from that on

good works. The same declared in the Twelfth Article.

The scriptures evidence this, especially Matt. vii. 21. Luke

vi. 46. St. Paul insists upon good works. Matter of fact

every way answers our purpose. An exhortation to good

works, enforced by a passage from Clement of Rome.

Those who profess to believe in Christ, and yet live in sin,

justly reproved.

CHAP. III.

Of the Holy Spirit.

1. THE Holy Ghost dwells in the hearts of all true

believers. The doctrine of the Inspiration of the Spirit,

asserted and maintained from the Homily on Rogation

Week, the Thirteenth Article, and from the Liturgies.

Those expressions full of God, and full of the Holy Ghost,

vindicated from the Liturgies, Scriptures, Ignatius, and

Clement of Rome. The Indwelling of the Spirit proved

from Matt. iii. 11. John, vii. 38. Gal. iv. 6. 1 Cor. iii. 16.

&c. &c. St. Paul's question, Acts, xix. 2. propounded.

II. The Illumination of the Spirit is necessary to a right

and saving knowledge of the Holy Scriptures: Men may

have a notional acquaintance with the scriptures, and yet

not be in a state of salvation. An outward and inward

meaning of scripture, asserted in the Homily of the Infor

mation of certain Places of Scripture. The gospel cannot

be truly preached, nor truly received, without the mighty

power of the Holy Ghost, asserted in the Homily for Whit-

sunday. The Homily of Reading the Holy Scripture,

mentions the Inspiration of the Holy Ghost as necessary

to a right understanding thereof: This doctrine proved

from Psal. cxix. 18. Luke, xxiv. 45. Eph. i. 18. &c. The

application.

III. The comfortable influences of the Holy Ghost are

really FELT by those souls to whom they are communicated.

The Homily of Faith speaks of feeling faith. Homily for

Rogation Week mentions feeling our consciences at peace

with God. Homily of Repentance speaks of feeling the

ears of the Lord wide open to our prayers. Bishop Wilkins

quoted. The question at the Ordination of Deacons con-

sidered, Bishop Burnet being interpreter. The proposition

proved from the Liturgies, and Seventeenth Article. The

same proved from Rom. xv. 13. 1 Thess. i. 6. Psal. cxix.

32. 2 Cor. vi. 11. Phil. i. 9. Acts, xvii. 27. &c. &c. An ap-

peal to experience. All professors of christianity exhorted

to seek after these sensible communications of the Holy

Ghost.

CHAP IV.

Of Christ's Righteousness Imputed.

A DESCRIPTION of Righteousness. Adam was per

fectly righteous at the first creation, Col. iii. 10. Eph. iv-

24. He and all his posterity are now destitute of original

Righteousness. Men strive various ways to attain a perfect

Righteousness. The Righteousness of Gentiles, Jews, and

formal Christians, is insufficient for Justification before

God. The term impute explained. Justifying faith looks

both to the active and passive obedience of Christ. Many

seem to hold the Satisfaction of Christ's death, but yet deny

the imputation of his Righteousness. Christ's Righteous-

ness imputed, proved from the Homily of the Salvation of

Mankind, from the Homily of Christ's Nativity, and from

the Xth Article. An objection obviated. This doctrine

evinced from the Liturgy. The Scriptures are full of this

doctrine, Rom. i. 17.-iii. 21, 22.-iv. 6. Archishop Usher

maintains the imputation of the Saviour's Righteousness,

Rom. v. 19.-x. 3, 4. 1 Cor. i. 30. 2 Cor. v. 21. Phil.

iii. 7, 8, 9. Opposers rebuked from Origen against Celsus.

The imputation of the Redeemer's active Obedience

proved and illustrated from divers other scriptural argu-

ments. First, Christ and his Church are one: Bishop

Reynolds quoted. Secondly, Christ in all he did and suf-

fered was the Representative of all his people. An inge-

nious and useful criticism on the preposition taken

from Dr. Edwards. Thirdly, Christ is our Federal Head.

Fourthly, Jesus is our Surety, Heb. vii. 22. Fifthly, We
have no Righteousness of our own that will avail to our
Justification. Some object, that Christ makes no mention
of this doctrine in his Sermon on the Mount.
Others op-

pose us from Mat. xix. 17. All objections against this
evangelical truth are founded in the state of the heart. All
who deny the imputation of the Mediator's Righteousness
to us, do in effect deny his Satisfaction. We are not jus-
tified by the act of faith, but by the object, i. e. Christ; for
want of making which distinction, many preachers do una-
wares preach Justification by Works. The completeness
and perfection of Christ's active and passive Obedience
briefly displayed. Polycarp asserts, that believing in Christ
is walking worthy of him. The necessity of this Righteous-
ness insisted upon. Mr. Jenks quoted. Self-righteous
people spoken to. Bishop Beveridge's and Bishop Sander-
son's joint consent to this doctrine. We must not join our
own righteousness and Christ's together. A word to those
who are interested in this Righteousness. Polycarp quoted.
Sinners called upon to believe in Christ's Righteousness.