1/Vor!js of it, in the Epiflles of Paul. 411 fix upon, nor wherein to find any fuch appearance of Truth as to give them Countenance in denying the plain and fre- quently repeated Affertion of the Apoftle. Wherefore in the Confirmation of the prefent Argument, I thall more particularly enquire into what it is, that the Apo - file intends by the Law and Works whereof he treats. For as unto our Juftification whatever they are, they arc abfo- lutely and univerfally oppofed unto Grace, Faith, the Riglite- oufnefs of God, and the Blood of Chrift, as thofe which are altogether inconfi(tent with them. Neither can this be de- nied or queftioned by any, feeing it is the plain defìgn of the Apoftle to evince that inconfiftency. z. Wherefore in general, it is evident that the Apoftle by the Law and the Works thereof intended, what the Jews with whom he had to do, did underJiand by the Law and their own whole Obedience thereunto. I fuppofe this cannot be denied. For without a Conceífìon of it , there is nothing proved againft them, nor are they in any thing inftrueced by him. Suppofe thofe Terms.&quivocal and to be taken in one fenfe by him, and by them in another, and nothing can be rightly concluded from what is fpoken of them. Wherefore the meaning of thefe Terms the Law and WorlZs,the Apoftle takes for granted as very well known, and agreed on between him- felf and thofe with whom he had to do. 2. The Jews by the Law intended what the Scriptures of the Old Teftament meant by that Expreffion. For they are no where blamed for any falfe Notion concerning the Law, or that they efteemed any thing to be fo, but what was fo in- deed , and what was fo called in the Scripture. Their pre- fent Oral Law was not yet hatched, though the Pharifees were brooding of it. 3. The Law under theOld Teftament, doth immediately refer unto the Law given at Mount sinai, nor is there any di- that mention of it before, This is commonly called the G g g 2 Law
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