11111,11111.11111.0 Epifile to the Gdatiant, Cl 1111. The law promilith eternall lih. ,)on -ondition of works : 'Doe thi, and hue: iftbotiwilt enter into life, keepe the commandments. The Gape' prornifeth eternall life freely without an nditionofwotks.Rom.4.5.To himthat worketh 5 not , but ,eth in him, that luflifieth theungodly , Jfaith it counted to&Infer rightoomfnet, Rom. 3 .2 1,2 2. The rightectifnes ofGodùmademanifell without the law,O, thefaith ofielm two all, andsoon allthat beteetie. V. In the effeets. The Law is no inflrumentalt caufe, of to faith,repentance, or any fattinggrace: it is theminer ofdeatb. 2Cor.3.7. coifingwrath. Rom. 3.i5. But the G olpel caufeth life: it is thegraceofgodwhich 6ringethfilluation. Tit. 2.11. for this caufe Paul calleth theLaw,adead, or k!11.1ng letter: the Go- fpel,agarickningfpirit.a.Cor.3. :1$ Fourthlysit may bedem5ded,whether anyrtabeable to fulfil the Law, confidering that Paul biddethvs beare one anothers burclensoordföftrifillthe LawofCbrifi? /Inf. No rneereman can perfe(tly fulfill the Law in this life. This conclufion S. Paul prooucth in fundrieofhis Epiftles , fpecially by thefe argu- *) ments. Firft , by the great and gerteralhdEprauation of nature, which remaineth in part men in ,the regenerate, flayninc, 1 their bell aCtions, andmaking them like a mcnitruous cloath: I confefling withal!, that his heft vvorkes are not anfwerable :5 to the Jaw, by rearm of the remainders of original! cor- ruption. Rom. 7' . Now perfea fulfilling of the law, can- not flared with corruption of nature , and tranfgreffion in life. For a corrupt fountaine , cannot fend forth fwecte wa- ters : neither can a corrupt tree, beare good fruit. Saint O lames faith , He that offendeth in one , is steiltie ofall: and the Scripture pronounceth him accurfed , that abided:, not in all thing.? written M the books of the law to doe them. PopifhDo- &ours anfwer,fira,that originall corruption ( which they call the fewell of finne) and the firfl motions to 'mill, *preuen- Fortes peccati ting all confcnt of will, are indeede in the regenerate; but they are no finnesproperly. But it is falfe which they teach. For curry tranfgreffion of the law, is a finne, as S. Tol7,g; defines it. r.Toh . 3.4. but thefe are tranfgreffions oftlie tenth conarnan- dement : for it either forbiddeth thefe firll motions, whether they beprilo'bprime, or ratik/S6prima, (as Schoolemen fpeake) F ff f a rar,
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