4o4 What intended by the Law; and the carnis, continuo ftbjungit, quam dixerit legem & addit ; per legem Cognitio peccati. And to the fame purpofe he, (peaks. again, L.pifi. Zoo. Non folum ilia opera,legis qux Pant in tete -- ribes Sacramentar, & nune revelato T'eßamento novo non :ob- firvantur a Chriftianis,, Beet eft Circumcifo pr &putii, & Sab -: bati carnalis vacatio ; & a quibufdam, efcis abflinentia, & pe- corum in Sacrifaciis immolatio , & neomenia 1°, axyinum,. cetera hujufmodi, verum etiam illud quad in lege.di(Jum eft, non . concupifces, quad ubiq; & Chriftianii nuVus ambigit effe dicen -, dum, non jut cat hominem, niji per (idem 7efu Chriffi, gratiam,Dei per ycfum Chrifium dominrsm nofirum. 2. Some fay the Apoftle only excludes the perfefi ff'or(s . required by the Law of Innocency, which is a fence diametri- cally oppofte unto that foregoing. , But this bell: pleafeth the Socinians. Paulus.agit.de °peribaus& perfetis in hoc ditto ideo enim adjecit, _fine operibus leg is ut indicaretur loqui eum de ope-; ribes a lege requifatis, & fie de perpetua & perfetimaa divino- runs pr eceptorum obedientia flout lex requirit. Cum autem talem . abedientiam qualem lex r, equirit nemo prOare poffit, ideo fubje cit Apo.flolus nos jufiifrcarifide, id eft, fiducia & obedientia ea quantum quifri; pnefiare poteji , quotidie quam maximum prx care f udet, .& cannititur.. Sine.operibusiegis, id eft, elf interim perfecie totani legem f ent debebat compiere nequit 5 faith Socinut himfelf.. But (e.) We have herein the whole granted of what ye plead for 5 namely, that it is the moral indifpen- fible Law of God that is intended by the Apoflle 5 and that by the works of it ,no .man can ,be jut-lifted, yea, that all the works of it are excluded from our j..utlification ; for itis, faith the Apoflle , without Works. The works of this, Law being performed according unto ir, will juflifie them that perform. them, as he affirms, Chap. 2. 13. and the Scripture elfewhere witneffeth., that he that doth them, (hall, live in them., But be- caufe this can never be done by any Sinner, therefore all confideration , of them is excluded from our Juftification. (2.) Ir
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