Sermon XIX, "Connection between Faith and Works" (James 2:24), in William G. T. Shedd, Sermons to the Spiritual Man (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884), p. 301

You are justified by this one act of faith in Christ's atonement, apart from any of these resulting works. And being thus justified, you then act out your faith in and by these works—internal and external. There is no le…