The Christian is created unto good works, but he can only do them by receiving a full and free salvation without works. Justification is by faith alone, But not, as has been well said, by faith which is alone; because, although to believe God is eternal life, the evidence to men, not to ourselves or God, that we lave thus truly believed, is in our good works. Hence the apparent contradiction between James 2 and Rom. 4, the former insisting on works, because treating of justification before man, the latter on faith, treating of justification before God. The difference between legal and Christian “good works” is that the former were to merit life, the latter a proof that we have it, never a means of obtaining it.