By 'OY SWhich Paul excludeth, CHAP. 6 II. If any were ppuffed up with this conceite of the meritorìoufnefsof- their works, ex condigno, it could be none befide the proud fantafücit Phari- fees ; nor is there any ground to fufpett any other. And if fo , why , may we fuppofe , would the Apotlle Rate a needlefs controvetfìe, a controver. lie Concerning all both 3ewes & Gentiles, when none of the.Gentiles, and f.w, if any of th; emes, were concerned therein ? And why,. may we enquire , would the Apoffle fo laborioully prove both hives & Gentiles to be guilty of fin ? and why doth he (peak of them all , without excep tion , icing the queftion did only concerne a.few , & a very few , & filch , as are never once named in ail the difpute ? Thefe things look not very proba3 bic like. Iz. Can we think, that the Galatians, who were (educed by falfe Tea- ehers, to adjoine to their Chrilbanity, the practice of tome Jewish Cere.. monies, werealfocarriedaway with this abfurd Phancie, that there was tneritorroufnefs ex ccndiçno, in all their works ? Though there be rground to imagine fuck a thing Yet we fee the Apoflle followeth the fame difput a- gain(( them, that he-did in writting to the Romans, of which no reafo7n could be affigned if this merite was all , he difputed down. 13. We finde it (aid of the 'ewes Rom. 9: 3 L that they followed after !the Law of Righteoufnefs ; and yet by fo doing did not atraine unto the Law of Righteoufnefs; becaufe (verf. 3 .) it was not by Faith , but as it were by the works of the Law. Now neither were thefe works of the Law , nor that Law of Righteoufnéfs which they were following after , a meer irra- tional conceite & groundlefs finds of a merite in what they did , or of an intrinfick worth -, meriting ex condig;lo the reward they expelled. Bit a groundlefs apprehenfion , that their works themfelves was the way of their attaining unto life, & therefore they followed that way of werks, & would not rake the way of faith, but humbled at that (tumbling (lone. 14. Then according to this interpretation , works performed without this conceite of merite , mull be God's Righteoufnefs as works together with this conceite of merite mutt be our ovine : for there two ace oppofire. Rpm. Io: 3. But there is no ground to imagine; that our works performed` without this fonde conceit (f merite in them, are the Righteoufnefs, for hefe are not Chrift , or his Righteoufnefs : And it is there added verf.4. for explication of the Righteoufdefs of God, for Chriß it the end of the Law fir ig,hteoufnefr , to every 012C that belayed). i ,. The Righteoufnefs of the Lave is, that the man, which doth there things 'shall live by them. Rom. to: g. Gal, 3: I z. Levi:. IS: g. So that: this Righteoufnefsconfifleth in mans own doing : and not in a meer irratio- nil apprehenfion of a merite in what he cloth : So that it is not this ground- km. phancie , that the ApolUe is difputing again(} , but this Righteoufnefs which is of the Law., becaufe he is labouring CO eftablish by his dottrine, the' Righteoufnefs of Faith, which is oppofite to & incónfiftent with the Righ. teoufnefs of the Law. And this Righteoufnefs of Faith is not our own perfo- snal Righteoufnefs, or obedience performed to the Law without this appre - -.. hen [ion & conceite ofmerite, as is clear from verf S, 9, to, 1 r, following , ?, frointhe whole Gape'. I,. If
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