.1 treati, fe t?I'Con,fcrence, have done all thefe things, faith our Saviour, know it is your dutie. Here ye tee the law bath power to fay to the conscience, This is your drtie. But ye will obje6i, We are under faith ; and do ye tell us of law ? J anfwer, as Chryíbflotne anlwereth out of Paul, De we then make void the law through faith ? God 3 forb. d : Yea, we eflabl:fh the law. See how the Aponte doth abhorre this thougnt : Gadforbid, faith he. As if he had laid, F4rre be it fromme to teachfinch an abominable doefrine : No, no ; we (flablifh the law. Heare what Chrift faith himself, Think not that ,3 am come to deftroy the law : 7 am net canoe to deflroy, but to fulfill it. O thought force. If we believe in Chrift then we hope wefhall havedone with the law. No, no, faith Chrif' ; ye(hall asfool pull theheavens and the earth, out oftheir place as difannull one tittle of the law. Secondly, That vvhtch bath this authoritie that the breachof Arg. a. it is a(lane, bindeth conscience : but the law hath this authoritie, that neither regenerate nor unregenerate can tranfgrelle it but they finne : therefore the law bindeth their confcietnces. For the regenerate and all are bound in conici: nce to take heedof finne : Wbofoever cormitteth finite tranfgreffeth alp ,the lain. t. Iabn 33 David was a regenerate man ; ye: when he had defiled Bath- fheba, Ihave finned, faith he. Jofeph was .a regenerate man ; yet confeffeth, if he (hould finne : Hew fhall y do this great wickedneffe, and fo finne again), God ? But ye wvill obje&, fins is old Teíament. What of that ? J hope you will not take up the old damnedherdic again of the Cerdonians, and Cainites, and Apellites, and Manichees, and Severia.ns, and other lisch curfèd hereticks condemned by the Church of God : Their heretic was, To hedge out theTellenevate'frriian the old to t ament. fend St. Auguaine proved it abairïfl them, That the rrtc call law of God vas ever the rifleof obedience,znd .0 all Co con- tinue with the eeípel to the end of the world ; ail d ery tranf: gtëflion: thereof is fit*ne. The breach of the ceremotiiall law was a finne once ; but now it is stet : becaufe once it bound the confcience ; now it Both not : Bu t the breach of the morali law is skill inne therefore 'till it bindeth the confci- ence
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