on 2: Further, a dead thing does not become a living thing. Now lifeless faith is dead, according to James 2:20 : "Faith without works is dead." Therefore lifeless faith cannot become living. Objection 3: Further, God's grace, by its advent, has no less effect in a believer than…

ng, and at another, lifeless. On the contrary, A gloss on the words, "Faith without works is dead" ( James 2:20 ) adds, "by which it lives once more." Therefore faith which was lifeless and without form hitherto, becomes formed and living. I answer that, There have been various o…

ain: Remove from hence hither, and it shall remove." Now "faith without works is dead," according to James 2:20, so that, seemingly, it is devoid of its proper operation. Therefore it would seem that the wicked, since they do not good works, cannot work miracles. Objection 3: Fur…