( 345 ) the righteoufnefi of the Law may be fulfilled in us. But you'l fay, is there not then a Juilifica- tion by the Law, if it be of the works ofthe Law is, I fay, No: Becaufe the works which we fpeak of, though they are of theLaw, as to the Rule which they follow, and as prefcribed by the Law ; Yet in refped of theOriginal and power whence they come, they arenot of the Law, but ofGrace and the Spi- rit. Specially becaufe they are faid to be Jukified by the Law, who are ;unified by works, as by the conditionof that Cove- nant fulfilled, which is then on- ly done when works do by Uni- verfal perfection anfwer the Law. For then the Law Iufti- fieth a man, as a man doth his wife that never violated her faith to him. For as it is from conjugal right that this 'unifi- cation of the w,fe proceeds; fo from the like right, which God bath conftituted in the Cove- nant ofworks,between his Law and man, proceeds the juitifica- tion of that man, who bath in- violate kept his fidelity to the Law, &c. Let us fpeak fullier of the fecond fort of ;unification. It is that whereby God, by Re- generation given us ' and the works of fincere faith which we performed, abfolveth us from Y y the legis? Non of inveam. opera de qteibus agimiet, etfi fint qemad- normal; gnaw fe- luuntur, quotive legefin: prx- fcripta;ratione tamen originil virtutu uncleproficifeantHr, on font legis, feoi Gratix &fpiritses. `7) otiffimurn autem quia ex lege Juilificari dictentur qui cx operi. bees tanquarn ex implerafrAeris conditione Jnficncur; Tod tomdenvon it obi opera omni- mada perfellione lei refiondent. Teem enim lex hominem maritge tixore qua non. yearn ipfifidem violavineit enim ex jure conjugali proficifcitor oexori$ inflificat;o; ira exfimili Jtere,gteodinfedereoperum Deus inter legem (loam & bominem conflituit , proficifcitior hominu iNitee luflificatio, qui invielatano legi deen fervavit, &c. ilgamm plenin4 de hac altera jeflifie;43o, jecie. Eft ea qua net Deice ex regencratione nobif data, lincer6; ridei operibuJ giez' edidimw, abfolvit a crimine hy- pocri,,rcose profanitatif atiinopie. tatig,
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