But it is objected by the author of “_The Notions of the Methodists disproved_,” “St. _James_ says, _Can faith save him_?” I answer, such a faith as is without works cannot _bring a man to heaven_. But this is quite beside the present question. You object, 2. “St. _Paul_ says, that _faith made perfect by love_, St. _James_, that _faith made perfect by works_, is the condition of salvation.” You mean final salvation. I say so too: but this also is beside the question. You object, 3. _That the belief of the gospel_, is called the _obedience of faith_, Romans i. 5. And 4. That what _Isaiah_ terms _believing_, St. _Paul_ terms _obeying_. Suppose I grant you both the one and the other, what will you infer? You object, 5. That in one scripture our Lord is stiled _The Saviour of them that believe_: and in another, _The author of eternal salvation to all them that obey him_. 6. That to the _Galatians_ St. _Paul_ writes, _Neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love_: and to the _Corinthians_, _circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping the commandments of_ God. And hence you conclude, “There are several texts of scripture, wherein unbelief and disobedience are equivalently used.” Very true: but can you conclude from thence, that we are not _saved by faith alone_? 11. You proceed to answer some texts which I had quoted. The first is _Ephesians ii. 8._ _By grace ye are saved, through faith._ “But (say you) faith does not mean here, that grace especially so called, but includes also obedience.” But how do you prove this? That circumstance you had forgot: and so run off with a comment upon the context; to which I have no other objection, than that it is nothing at all to the question. Indeed some time after you add, “It is plain then that good works are always, in St. _Paul_’s judgment, joined with faith.” (So undoubtedly they are, that is, as an effect is always joined with its cause) “And _therefore_ we are not saved by faith alone.” I cannot possibly allow the consequence. You afterwards cite two more texts, and add, “You see mere faith cannot be a condition of justification.” You are out of your way. We are no more talking now of justification than of final salvation. In considering _Acts xvi. 31._ _Believe in the |Lord Jesus| and thou shalt be saved._ You say again, “Here the word _believe_ does not signify faith only.――Faith necessarily produces charity and repentance; _therefore_, these are expressed by the word _believe_.” i. e. Faith necessarily produces holiness. Therefore holiness is a condition of holiness. I want farther proof. That _Paul_ and _Silas spake unto him the word of the Lord_; and that his faith did _in the same hour_ work by love, I take to be no proof at all.