1 . Ch.3 5 . of the iffue of Beleevers. 257 i which dare two. The firft in the 14, ve'rf. If thou being a Yew liveli after the manner of the Gentiles, and not as dò the Yews, why compel/eft thou the Gentiles to live as do the levees ? 3 bus the Argument runnes; It is unreafeinable to draw others into a pra &ice that thou thy felt pu rpofely forbeareft ; But thou thy felf keepeft not the Jewifh Rites and Ordinances and therefore it is an unreafonable and blameworthy praefice by thy example to compel! others to their obfervation;, yea, thou being aJew,, takeft thy feif to have freedome unreafonably ; then doff thou draw on others , who were never under any fuch obligation. . - The fecond Argument is in the is and 16. verfes; We who arc i I Y-axes by nature, and not 'inners of the gentiles ; knowing that a man is not j0f1ified by the works of the Law,but by the faith of ?efiu Chris even we have beleeved in 1eful Chrifl, that We might be jtrfi'ified by the faith ofChrifl, and not by the works of the Law; for b"y.the works of the Law fballno flh be jufiifret,which is thus enforced. In that way wherein we who areJews,with all our birth- priviledges cannot at tain to righteoufnefs,we may not teach theGentiles to attain to it. But we who are Jews by nature, and not fanners of the Gentiles, cannc t this way attaine to righteoufneffe. We know that a man is ¡unified by Faith; we are compelled to quit the Law,and to cleave to Faith without works, for junifiration. Thefe words .which come up to our prefent purpofe containe. (.) The priviledge of Peter, Paul Barnabres with the reif of the Jews. (2.) The charafter oft he Gentiles in oppofition to the Jowes. As' to the fù11 purpofe for which thefe words are brought by the Apoflae, they have for the fenfe of them their dependance on the words that follow; but fo farre as they containe the priviledge of the Jews, in oppofition to and above the Gentiles (EC) which we are to fpeak) fo farre they are full of themfelv.es; (hewing Firff Pofitively,what himfelf and Peter were, /ewes by. nature. Second- ly Negatively, what they were not, fanners of the Gentiles, Where nature is taken , not in theproper but vulgar acceptation for birth or defcent from Anceftors, as ufually in our common phrafe of fpeech we fay, men arenaturally Dutch,,French, Spanifh, Irifh when they are fuch, borne and bred ; this Scripture therefore Ga- iner() cites, for one in which the Apoftle fpeaks afte the vulgar. manner. We have a Scripture parallel with this, Rom..t i. 24. where nature, and natural, is only by birth and off-fpring, Peter, L iatsl;
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