34$ [Chaim. Herethen falls to the ground a maifle pillar inPopifli rcli. gion,which is,that the lawofMofes,and theG ofpel,arc all one law for fubfla,nce : and that the difference lies in this , that the lawof Mofes is darke and imperfect, and the Gape! or the law of Chrifl more perfea : becaufe be bath (as they fay)ad. ded Counfells to precepts. Againe , the law(they fay)without the fpirtt, is the lawproperly , and with the fpirit,ít is the Go. fpel. But all this is talle which they teach..For the two Tefta- ments the law and theGofpel, are two innature, fubflance,or kind : and the difference lies not in the prefence or abfence of the fpirit. Andwhereas the Papifis make two iuflifications , the fir(} et-merely by g beides the fècond by workes : the two Te- flarnents, they muff eflabltfha thirdTeflament compounded of both, and it muff be partly legal!, and partly Euangelicall; otherwife the twofold iuftification cannot (land. For the law propounds onely one wayof iufiification , and the Gofpel a fecond. Thedoftrine therefore that propoundsboth, is com- pounded ofboth. God did not approoue the polygamie of Abraham, yet doth he vfe it to lignifie the greatefl myfferieof our religion. Here we fee a great point of the diuinc providence of God, who ordereth andvfcthwell the things whichhe doth not ap. prooue. This is the foundation ofour patience, and a meanes oftrue comfort. Ioleph thus comforts himfelfe and his bre- thren, that God ordered and difpofed their bad enterprifè , to his and their good.Gen.45.6,7. Here againe Paul fees downe two properties of the Tefla. ment of workes, or of the law. The fiat is , that it came; rom mount Sina. And here lies the differencebetweenc the law and theGofpel : the law is fromSina, the gofpel fromSion or fe- ruralem. For thereitwas fiat tobe preached, and thence con. ueied to all nations. Mich.4. t .Ezech.47. r. The fecond propertieof the law is, that it gendreth to bon- dage:becaufe it tnaketh them bond men,that looke to be fa- ued and iufhfied thereby. And this it doth, by reuealing finne and the puniíhrnent thcreof,which is euerlafling death;and by conuincing all men oftheir firmes, and oftheir deferued con- demnation. In this refpeft , it is called tkemini//erie ófdeath,z. Cor.3.6.andPaul faith,that after he knew his fins by the lawe, 1, he: s to Ix zQ 3.0 3
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