the Epillle to the Çalatiant, Chap.6. i 5ot j vvith all the foule,with all thepowers andfaculties of the foule, andwith all the firength and vigor ofall therepowers. And this ditlinf`tion they waketo be thegroundoftheir o- pinion, touching the fulfillingofthc law , and iufiificationby 5 workes, &c. But it is a fandie foundation , and therefore that which isbuilt vpon it,cannot (land. For brfides that it is a fond and friuolousdillinCtion forgedby the Schoolcmen, without warrant ofScripture, or confent otAntiquitic; it is manifeflly falfe. For there is one onely rule ofrightcoutces, and not two: to one onelygenerall fentence of the Lowe , more vnchange- able then the lanesof the Medcs &Perfians, euen as unchan- geable as Godhimfelii ; which is that, Hewhich cantio,ufth not inallthings written in the Law to doe them , is accnrfed. Sothat I he which loucth not Godwith all his foule,minde, and might, E 5 withall his valdìfile, that is ,with all the faculties ofhis foule, and all the powers ofall there faculties, and that in this life, is accurfed. And it is abfurd which they teach , that a manis not bound for the tearme of this life, thus to loue God, but oncly . in the life to come.ForTookewhat man could doe by creation, 2O in the frateofinnocencie; the fameand fo much the Law re- quires at his hands in the (late of Apofafie. But Adam by creation could loue Godwith all his foule, withall the facul- ties ofhis foulc, and all the powersofall there faculties : there- fore thefame perfe,abfolute,andentireobedience is now re- 25 quircd at his hands. For the fentenceof the law , Cur(edis he that continueth not in allthings, d-c. is not oncly giuen to men glorified,but to thole that arc in theDate ofgrace. And S. Paul doth fo apply this fentence tomen cuen in this life,that hepro- nounceth all that are oftheworkes ofthe law, to be vnder the o curie. Againe, if this were fo,the Iewes had no caufc to feare the feueritie and flrianes of the law, as they did : when they raid, 1fwe hhere the voice ofthe Lordanymore, we(halldie:confi- fixod.,o.,9. dering they were able to keepe and fulfill it, according to this Pau"''. Popifhopinion. Neither would Godhauepromifed them a st.'s.,s. î 5 Melias or Mediatour to redeeme them from the curieof the law : but would rather haue comforted them in that their fo great feare and afloniíhment , by giuing them to vnderfisnd that they were not bound to thefull and perfca fulfillingof the law for the timeofthis life. Bdides,the pathetical) exclamationofPau1,0 miferaa'le man Ffff z that l _ a___ --.
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