(t19) ning of fome Law, which foever it be, or whatever you will call it and that threat is it in one fenfe, and the execution in another, that is commonly called the Curfe of that Law. But if any will make it a conteft, whether it be the Lawofworks, or of Nature, or the moral Law ( which are all one to me) or the Law of Grace, whole Threatning it is that is executed on Believers, I will not contend with him, it being but about notions and words. But I choofe to fay, that it is partly and originally from the Law of works made to Adam, and the fentence following the breach partly alfo from the Threat ofthe Moral or Natural Law, as it is now in the hands of Chrift, and partly alfo by Confequence (though not as to the infliaing, yet as the very non-liberation in fuch a degree and feafon, is a punifhment) it may be laid to be from the Commination ofthe LawofGrace. Condo. 26. It is likely that it is this opinion of mine that may be Mr. Caryls further reafon of offence, from whence he fup- pofeth me to leave Believers under that curfe of the Law ; becaufe I fuppofe them Punifhed in fome fort, and fome Threat- ningexecuted in fome part upon them. To remove this offence therefore , I fhall give fome reafon of my words. And firft, If the Confent of Divines be any fatisfaftion, I could quickly produce many Protellants that fay as much as I. See excellently and fully Chemnitigs exam. Concil, Trident. part. 2. de fgtqal page (mihi) 37o..371. c.MelanZlhon Loc. Conimon. page (mihi) I 2.2. chewing what evils the Curfe includeth, adds Nee gulf.: quarn eft &Timm, qui non aliquem infignem & dirum morforn Diaboli fentiat, unde difcenda eft hoc fententiot, ferpens infldiak- tur Calcaneo ejus. Et pag.297. fully,fcianpu ornnei triflet Even- tus hamanos were efe Peends,turnprirni lapfud, turn ahoretrn torum :flewPlat 39. propter iniquitatemCerriin:s komineno, and fo he goes on to prove that even for Fear ofPunifhment we may do Good, againft fome that denyed this, and he proves that the Godlies affliaions are punifhment. for fin, and perfwades them to acknowledge the wrath of God in their Calamities : page 298. `Pantos on Genef: is very plain and exaa, in Cap.12,. 17. page (mihi) 359,360,35T. 371. In the former he fully proves againft Socismi, that Death is tows all a Panifhment of-fin, and but by Accident a paffage to felicity.. ( the words are too many to cite) In the Inter place he faith thus, Cbriftus nos liberAva M111111,
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