402 what intended hÿ the Za w, and the Our Adverfaries are extreamly divided amongft them (elves, and can come unto no conriftency, as to the fenfe and meaning of the Apofile in there Affertions; for what is pro- per and obvious unto the under(tanditsg of all Men, efpecial ly from the oppofition that is made between the Law and Works on the one hand, and Faith, Grace, and Chrift on the other, (which are oppofed as inconfiftent in this matter of our Juftification) they will not allow, nor can do fo without the ruine of the opinions they plead for. Wherefore their various.conjeitures (hall be examined, as well to thew their inconfifiency among thernfelves, by whom the Truth is oppofed, as to confirm our prefent Argument. 1. Some fay it is theCeremonial Law alone, and the Works of it that are intended ; , or the Law as given untoMofes on Mount Sinai, containing that intire Covenant that was after- wards to be abolilbed. This was of old the common opini- on of the Schoolmen, though it be now generally exploded. And the opinion lately contended for, that the Apoftle Paul excludes Jultification from the Works of the Law, not becaufe no Man can yield that perfeîí obedience which the Law re- quires, or. excludes Works abfolutely .perfeEt, and finlefs obedience ; but becaufe the Law it Pelf, zohich he intends, could not juflifie any by the obfervation of it, is nothing but the re- novation of this obfolete notion, that it is the Ceremonial Law only, or which upon the matter is all one, the Law given ón .i1ount Sinai,, abftra&ed from the Grace of the Promífe, which could not juftifie any, in the obfervation of its Rites and Commands. But of all other conjectures, this is the molt impertinent and contradiiEtory unto the defign of the Apo - file, and is therefore rejected by.Bellarmine himfelf. For the Apoftle treats of that Law whofe doers fhall bejuilifed. Chap: 2. 13. And the Authors of this opinion would have it to be a Law that can juflifie none of them that do it. That Law he ittt.nds whereby is the knowledge of fzn; for he gives this rea- fon
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