( 265 ) ofour Lord Yefus Chrß ; For inChr f Jefcs neither Cir- cunscfon availeth any thing, nor Vncircunacfon, but a newCreature; and as many as walk according unto this *le, that is, the Rule ofFaith in Chrift alone for Jufli- fication and Sannification, without trufling unto or refting on any of thole things which were in difference among them. The Places, inScope, Defign, and man- ner of Expreffion, are Parallel. For this is plainly, that which he pleads for in this Context; namely, that Juflification and Sanflification are to be obtained alone through Chrift and Faith in him by the Gofpel, with- out the leaft Aid and Afíìftance from the things that were in Difference among them. Wherefore not far- ther to contend in fo plain a Matter, the Rule here in- tended by the Apofile, is noBook, ofCanons, but the .analogy of Faith, or the Rule ofFaith in Chrift as de- clared in the Gofpel, in oppofition unto all other ways and means ofJuftification, Sannification and Salvation, which we ought to walk in a Compliance withal, and that with Love and Forbearance towards them that in things not Corruptive or Deftrunive of this Rule, do differr from us. But, faith our Author, the fenfe according toDr. O. is this ; that thofi who are agreed in the Subffantials of7(è,. ligion, fhouldgo on and do their Duty, without regarding Tier Differences : Abate that Expreffion, of, without re- garding ler Differences, which is not mine, and fupply in the room ofit, mutually forbearing each other in leffer Dirences ; and be itfo that it is my fenfe ; at firftveiw it looks as like the fenfe of the Apoftle as any manneed defire. But, faith the Donor, thisfenfe is uncertain, becaufe itfits no bounds to Di rences, and fupp.fth the L 1 con
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