;86 Rom.Ea3 E-íeb. Cot.x+ *Si lex jubens aJfit,& ('Firúus luvans derit, per ipá prohi- bittóem -je fide- rio peccati o'er. cente,atque vincente,etiam reatus preva- ricati®nn, acce- dit.flup.de Civ.11ei,lib. ti cap.s6.6' 83. 0441 c ap .66. The T%f ë of the Lam. vengeance then raigned in the World betweene Adam and Mofes,was no motive in Gods intention to pu'biith the Law by his minitery,but oncly the furtherance and aduancement of the Lovenant of Grace. Secondly, The- Law was not publifhed by (Mores on mount Sina (as it was given to Adam in Paradife) tojuffi- fie or to fave men. God never appoints any thing to an end to which it is utterly unfutable & improper : Now the Law by finne is become weak,e and unprofitable to the purpofe of righteoufneffe or falvation;nay it was in that regard Agaiirß u',as Saint Paul faith ; and therefore we are delivered from it as a rule of ¡unification, though not as a rule of f rvice and obedience. Thirdly, The ufes of the Law are feverall according to divers confederations of it. For we may confider it either Per fe, in it felfe, according to the primary intention thereof in its being and new publication ; or Fer acci- dens, according to thole fecondary and inferior eflefts thereof. By accident or fecondarily, The LAW deth, firft, * irritaí:r ; enrage, exafperate lue, by reafon of the veno- mous and malitious quality which is in (inne. And this the Law doth not by ingenerating or implanting luft in the heart, but by exciting,calling out, and occafioning that which was there before;as a chaîne doth not beget any fury in a wolle, nor a bridge infufe any ftrégth into the water, nor the pretence ofan enemy inftill or create ìße now any malice in a man, but onely occahonally re- duce unto Aft, and call forth that rage which though lefie difcerned, was yet habitually there before. Secondly, the Law by accident dotb pnnifh and curfe nne.I fay,by accident, becaufe puniChment is in no Law the maine intétion of tine Lawgiver; but fomething add ded thereunto, to backe, ltrengthen, and enforce the o- bedience which is principally intended. Neither could the Law have cfarfed man at all, if his difobedience had not thereunto made way ; which ihewes that the curfe was
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