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.1

tr

eati,

f

e

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

:

Gad

forbid,

faith

he.

As

if

he had laid,

F4rre

be

it

from

me

to

teach

finch

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

we

fhall

have

done

with

the

law.

No,

no,

faith

Chrif'

;

ye

(hall

as

fool pull the

heavens and

the

earth, out

of

their

place

as

difannull

one

tittle

of

the law.

Secondly,

That

vvhtch

bath

this

authoritie that the

breach

of

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

heed

of

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 damned

herdic

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

the

Tellenevate'frriian

the old

to

t

ament.

fend

St. Auguaine

proved

it

abairïfl

them,

That

the

rrtc

call

law

of

God

vas

ever

the

rifle

of

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