5 Ib r5 20 25 30° 35 the Epißle se the Galatians. Chap. ;. 183 oldie law, arevnder thecurfe. For it is written , Curfedis eueryone that continuesnot inall things written in theLaw, to doe them. In thefe wordcs , Paul fctsdownea fccond reafon, whereby heprooues that not onely the Tema, but air() theGentiles, are bletred as Abraham was,by faith. And the reafon is drawne from the contraries, thus. They that are of workes, that is, that Tooke to be iuftificdby workes,arevnder the curfe.Thcreforc, they that are of faith, are blefí.'ed,_or iuftificd, withAbraham. Moreouer , Paul addes theproofe ofthis fccond reafon, in the next words , and it is framed thus : They which fulfill not the law, arc surfed : they which arc ofworks, fulfill not the law : thereforc,they are accxrfed. . Whereas Paul faith, that theyare vnderthe curfe, that will6e ofworkes,wetee the whole worldalmof}, walkcs in the way of perdition : it isa conclufion ofnature, that we muff behued,'. and iuf}bfied, byour works. Theyoung Prince in the Gofpd, faid , Çoedmalier, what muff Idoe ,to 6efamed ? TheLeweswould' not be fhbie£1 to the isiflice ofGod, but they eflabli,?ied their ewne rinhesoufnesofthe larv,Rom. t 0. 3. Our common people, and they that íhould be wife , fay , they Tooke to be faued by faith : but indeede,they turne theirfaith,to workes: For what is their faith ? furely nothing els(as they fay)but their goodmeaning, or their good dealing, or their good feruingofGod. - Hence againe it followes, that the Papacie, or Popifh reli gion , is the way to perdition , in that it prefcribeth, and teach eth, iuf}ification, by workes. On thecontrarie, our religion is the fafeft, and fureft from daunger, becaufc itteacheth the free iuflificatióofa finncr, by the blood ofChrif}. And this makes the Papifts, in the dayof death , to renounce iuf}ification by their workes. Steuen Gardiner a bloodieperfecutor, besing on his death bed told,of free iuf}ification by theblood of Chrif}, faid ; remmay tellthis tome, but doenot open thin (Tapp to thepee. Oneof late in a pubiike execution ofiuf}ice,faid,he would die a Catholike , and withall he added, that he looked.tobeka, ucd onely by the paffionofChrif}. gt
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