Some Types of Arminianism. Human nature persists in making some contribution toward salvation. It does not mean that we can be justified on account of our faith any more than we can be justified on account of regeneration, sanctification, good works, love or any other subjective quality. There is no merit in faith itself. The saving virtue is not in the faith but in the Object of faith.
Faith is merely the instrumental cause of salvation.
He shows that we may believe because we have been predestined and called by God's grace. To turn this around and say that God gives grace in response to faith or that we are predestined because we believe, is to base our salvation on a quality within ourselves-and hence on legal grounds. We cannot close our discussion on legalism without a comment on the most subtle type of legalism-the legalism of trusting in our sound orthodoxy. We need to remember that we are saved by trusting God's mercy and not by our theology. The truth about justification by grace alone, through faith, calls everything that we do and everything that we are into question.