501 ÌC.hap.6. .4Cor ment. rieepos, that 1am, sy c. totem. 7. 24, and that fayingof Peter, incalling the Law 6y&'ke , wlfach neither we nor our fathers were able .to bearefié}.i 5.1houlú bechildi(i,and ridiculous, if thatwh%ch RoMt=3. i± in1po ble in the Iav, (as Paul fpcakes) didnot appe, taine.vnto vs. The third argument. If a man could fulfiil the Law , he fhould not ¡land in neede of a Mediatotar. For ifrighteoufnes be by the Lary, CLrifI diedin vaine. Gal. a. 2 t . It is anfwered, that atilt died in vaine , if men by the ftrength of nature could fulfill the Law : but the fulfilling of the Law is by',a grace, and fáhis death is not invainc ó for by vertus of dies). j bedience of Chrift, we are enabled to fulfill theLaw . But this were to-make Chri[t no Sauiour, butoncly an inftru- rznent , whereby we fulfill the Law, andare our ovine Saul- ours ; whereas the Scripture faith , that he ra made veto vs rig*.', tÿ Iteonfnes. z .Corinth. t . 3 o, not thatwe arc made righteoulneffe by him. That we aremade the righteonfnefe of god inhim,. 2. Corinth. 5.2 I. not by him, as an inflrument . That we are complete in him, Coloft 2. r o, and not completeof our felues, 2. by him. Lardy, the Scripture fhuttethvp all men under Pinne, nun thenaoft f,anefified. Prou. 20.9. 1. Iah. 1.9. Tub confefféthhe cannot anfwerone ofa thoufand. Job 9.3. andDauid faith, If thou, Lord , (halt martre what ù done a.nFfle, who can abide it ? Pfil. i 3 o.;. and Paul faith ofhiriafelfe , that hefound nomeaner ?S to.pef r orate that which good. Rom.7. i 8. He faith further, that . it is inábo 5le to be kept,by reafon of originals corruption. Rom. 8. 3. It is anfwered, that all there places and examples muff be vnderfloodofvenial! frnnes,whieh makemen finners indeede , yet are not againf, but be/Ide the law; and therefore s "O though a man commit them , yet he may fulfill the law for all that. Anf. the cómon receiuedopinion inSchaoles,that Ionic finnes are mortali, others veniali of their owne nature , is a witleffe diflinftion. For ifall finnes deferue death ; as Paul; teacheth , Rom. 6. 23. either venial! Pannes are no finnes , or they muff needes deferue death. (Mores faith , that he that a- dideth net in all things teritten in this Law, is accurfed.-Deuter. 2.26. where the worries, this Law, maynot be reflrained onely to the Catalogue ofgreat and hainous Pinnes, which are there' reckcned vp, but extended to all fumes, asPaul applies i,t
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