“It remains now to show wherein we disagree. At first sight, the difference seems trifling; but, upon close examination, it appears that the whole antinomian gulf still remains fixed between us. Read the preceding quotations, weigh the clauses which I have put in capitals, compare them with what the Rev. Mr. Berridge says in his ‘_Christian World Unmasked_’ (p. 26), of ‘_an absolute impossibility of being justified in any manner_ by our works,’ namely, _before God_; and you will see that though pious Calvinists allow we are justified by works _before men and angels_, yet they deny our being _ever_ justified by works _before God_, in whose sight they suppose we are for ever justified by _Christ alone_,’ _i.e._, only by Christ’s good works and sufferings, absolutely imputed to us from the very first moment in which we make a single act of true faith, if not from all eternity. Thus works are entirely excluded from having any hand either in our intermediate or final justification _before God_; and thus they are still represented as _totally needless_ to our _eternal_ salvation. Now, in direct opposition to the above-mentioned distinction, we anti-Calvinists believe that adult persons cannot be saved without being justified _by faith_ as _sinners_, according to the light of their dispensation; and _by works_ as _believers_, according to the time and opportunities they have of working. We assert that the _works_ of faith are not less necessary to our justification _before God_ as believers, than _faith_ itself is necessary to our justification _before Him_ as sinners. And we maintain that when faith does not produce good works (much more when it produces the worst works, such as adultery, hypocrisy, treachery, murder, etc.), it dies, and justifies no more; seeing it is a _living_ and not a _dead_ faith that justifies us as sinners; even as they are _living_ and not dead works that justify us as believers.” Thus did these good men quarrel. Berridge was a man of eminent piety and of great wit, but he could scarcely be considered a great theologian; and it may be fairly doubted whether he ever held the doctrines which Fletcher, perhaps somewhat hardly, deduces from a few of his unguarded words.