The Works of the Reverend John Fletcher

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I. II. . We have believed m Jesus Christ, In the day of judgment?by thy that we might be Justified [as sin- words thou shalt be Justified, and ners] by the faith of Christ, Gal. by thy words thou shalt be condemn- ii, 16. ed, Matt, xii, 36, 37. The balance of the preceding scriptures shows that Faith, and the works of faith, are equally necessary to the salvation of adults. Faith, for their justification as sinners, in the day of Convehsioj; and the narks of faith, for their justification as believers, both in the day of Trial and of Judgment.' Hence it follows, that when Zelotes preaches mere Solifidiamsm, and when Honestus enforces mere morality, they both grossly mangle Bible Christianity, which every real Protestant is bound to defend against all Antinomian and Pharisaic innovators. SECTION VI. THK MOIAL LAW OF CHRIST WEIGHED AGAINST THE MORAL LAW OP MOSE8. Our tnmslrfinn makes St. Paul speak unguardedly, where it says that the lean is not made for a righteous man ? The absurdity of making be- Kvers afraid of the decalogue ? The moral law of Christ, and the moral late of Moses are one and the same ? The moral law is rescued from under the feet of the Antinomians ? Christians are. not less under the moral law to Christ as a nde of juditment, than the Jews were under it to Moses ? The Sinai covenant is proved to be an edition of the covenant of grace? The most judicious Calvinists maintain this doctrine? Wherein consists the difference between the Jewish and the Christian dispensation. As the latter is most glorious in its promises, so it is most terrible in its threatenings ? Two capital objections are answered. justice has used her scales, she is sometimes obliged to wield her sword. In imitation of her, I lay by my Scales to rescue a capital scripture, w...