C H A P. 4. what Lacy it is , Zy which use are rot -juffi fzed. 4-69 man is juftified by the Law, in the fight of God , becaufe the juif shall live by faith. (i3) This 'is clearalfo from verf 12. & 13. to mentione no more. And the Law it not of faith ( which holdeth not true only of the Ceremonial Law) but the man that doth them shall live in them ( which was the Tenor of the Old Covenant Room. Io: 5. Levit. 18: ç.) Chrif hath redeemed us from the Curie of the Law ( And lure this is from the ,Curfe of other Lawes, than of the Ceremonial Law. ) S. Though it were true , that Paul's conclufion was only againfl Ju cifica- don by Mofaical Obfervances: Yet by good confequence it might hence be inferred , that there is no Juflification by the works of the Moral Law. Part- ly becaufe the Apoftle's Mediums & Arguments are general , & , as we law, reach furtiler than to the Ceremonial Law : Partly becaufe if it were not thus, all the Apoflles difput should be of no ufe or value unto us , now the ,fubjett of that controverfie being quite removed :.Partly becaufe the Cere- monial Law belonged to the firft table , being God's inflitute worshipe , & obedience thereunto required by the Second Command : Partly becaufe fo long as tharLaw was not abrogated , obedience thereunto was their Gofpel Righteoufnefs , as well as obedience to other Law's is now called our Gof pel- Righteoufnefs : And if that could not then juflifie them, no more can this now ;ulifie us. We:do not by all this fay , that the Ceremonial Law had no place or in- teretl in this difput fc.r the 'ewes being pertinaciousadherers unto this , & the falfe Teachers urging the obfervation of this , even upon the Gentile - Churches, gave occafion & fira rife unto thisQueftion;for they alleiged,there was no Juftidcation , or Salvation without the obfervation hereof : But as they did not retiri& the Law & the works thereof , purely unto the Mofai- cal Rites & Typical Ceremonies ; but urged the obfervation of the whole Law, which comprehended moral precepts , as well as Ceremonial Injun- &ions.; fo the Apofile al gueth againa jufttfication by the works of the Law in general , without any particular limitation (exprefled or hinted) unto the :_Ceremonial Obfervances. Mr. Baxter, in his Cacho!. Theo!. part. 2. Sea. 26. where he would tell us , how Paul & tames agree, about ja fli fication by works (n.;6z.) faith that , The key ofuriderjlanding Paul's difcour fes of juflifr cation is, to know i. Thao the grandqueflron; which he frflmanageth,is, whether the Gentile: may not be faved , without keeping the 3ewish Law , as well as thejewes with it'? "Inf. (I) But our Principal difficulty here is to underaand what Mr. Baxter meaneth by the Jewish Law ? for if he meane all that, which was prefcri- fcribed unto the Jewes as a Rule of their obedience, we affent; but then the Mora! Law is as much concerned here , as the Ceremonial, or judicial And there , as loch being abrogated, the difput concerneth us, as well as them , in refpea of the Moral Law : But if he mean hereby , only the Law of Ceremonies we have shown, that howbeit this might have given the firttrife unto the difput , yet the difput was not wholly & purely reffriCted thereunto; Nor doth the Apoftle only fpeak to that abara6ted or ,re(riaed confederation of the Law, in his pleading againft a juftifcationby the works M m
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