( 65) 1,ybecoming a curie for us: For if'-yi here put in [ Cny] you plainly exclude all his Obedience as fuch, and muchof it mate- rially : for it is not a curled thing to obeyGod. The Law curf- eth for difobeying : therefore Obeying is not theCurfe, nor is it materially a Curfe to Love God, and Trutt him,and be zealous for his Glory, oc. The whole office of Chrift is imployed in freeing us from the Curfe : and when Paul faith, he was made a Curie to freeus, he never Paid or thought that he did nothing elfe to free us; for an hundred texts do tell us of more. Thirdly, And on the by I mutt fay, that I am not ofyour mind in the defcriptionofJuftiification ; for, omitting the controver- fie whether Jullificarion only free us from the Curie, I do not believe that this curie is only the fentenceof the Lawof .Motet. If it were, either you mutt prove that all the Gentile world that heard not of it was under the Lawof Mofe: ( which abundance ofmolt Learned men deny with better grounds then you have to affirm it ) or elfe that all thefe are under no curie for Juftificati- on to remove. The Lawof Nature was materiallypart of the Mofaicat Law ; but the form denominateth. So much toMr. Blake: Arguments, which are fo little to the purpofe, that if the weight of the caufe, and the prejudice of fome Readers did tut call more earneftly for a Reply, then any apperanceofflrength in them,I had fpared my felt and the Rea- der this Labor.But that[ Cbrifi as Chriff iJ the obj -1t ofthatfaith by which as a Condition roemull be jujl,fled] andfo that weare not julli£rd only by believing in his blood, but alto by believing. inhim entirely as 7efus Chri,ff our Lord, and by becoming h% Difi Ales, or true Chriflians, ] this is a truth , that deferveth more then my Pen todefend it; and that while Godaffordeth me time and ftrength, I (hall never defert. N,ov., 1656e
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