CHAP.9. OfGPlifcdosne,&c. 5°7 meerely finfull , without any manner of goodneffe in them , may iuffifie in the fight. of God ; neither can the Law bee done in any meafure at all , by our owne firength; for the wifedeme of the f efb ; or ofthe natural' and v.-regenerate man, dclìitute of Gods Spirit, is enmi. tie unto God, and neither is nor can befubieet to the Law of God,as the Apoffle faith Rons.g.7. and thereof fetteth himfelfe in the formerChapter for an example that al- beit ii.t his minde,-or part regenerate , hetferried theLan' of God, yet, in his fle/h ,or part not regenerate, hee ferued the Law offnne, Rom,7.22. Wherefore the very drift of theApoffle appeareth to bee, to exclude all works from iuflifying,euen thole that are done by regenerate men in Tome meafure,according to the rule and dire&Rion ofthe Law. For whichpurpofe hee doth in this Argument ap- ply the Doarine w the bell and moll righteous Iewes, that hued vnder the Law,Rorn,3,j9, whatfoeuer the Law faith , it Jieaketh to theft that are within the Law. And Ga1.5.4,5not onely to the Galatians that beleeued, but tohimielfe as oneof that number , who not by theworkeer of the Law, but by Faith waited for thehope, or hoped-for reward ofRighteoasfneffe. Which he teachethcleerly,Rhil, 3.9. That Imight be found inhim (Chrift) that is, not has sting mine owne Righteoufnrfe, that which is by the Law, but that which is through theFaith of Chrift, the Righteoafne ffe which is of God through Faith. This further appeareth by i leremnie. , caIling Chriff i Ier.:34 I E x o v A H our Righteoufnefe.Therefore faluation corn. meth not by our owne. And when the k Apoffle faith, k r.Cor.t:3o:, that Chrifi ismade vetovsofGod , both Righteoufnefe and Sanlfification , if the Popifh do6trineof being iuffified by the workes which Chrifl worketh in vs by his Spi- rit, were true ; it fhould follow, that Iuflice and San ci- fication, which the Apoffle diflinguifheth fhould bee one. But that to the Romane,, 1 In the Gofpell the Righ. 1 Rcm.1.i9, teeufnefc of God if reuera/ed front Faith to Faith, as it is written,
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