EpiflleofS. Paulto Tits. HF.2I "> whereby heand ald his houfe*hsu famed. :w told bee Whence it is called tfieoril 4 1. of life, AE1,5.20. Got, preach to the people allthe words ofthis life:and the wordofeterna111tfe, l0h.6.68. becaufe God path ordained it to this purpofc, that whofocuer is broug' . o the faith by ir, (hall eternally bue thereby. And here is another difference between the do9ïrine of the law and * difference betw..ene the Gofpe1, the which two the Apofile comparing together, he called) ïht Law&Gospel, law,a hitting letter: and thewinitierieofit ,amin,fkrieofcondemnarionand the mini/lratian of death: but theGofpell he calleth a gteick,.ing ipit* and the miniflerie of the (pint, and the minittration of righteoirinef'!e.Ó(ìteEf, Fiats9.7. The law of God conuerteth the föule. eflnrm. t.uatherethe ¡ :::açve in a more generall acceptation of the word, comp e teiir4cèh the r hh',c doEtt üteache covenant of lift and fàluation, as is i;. a1:o BieCed it the man that meditateth in the i aw: chat is, theword of God .61.1 arc/night. But in this tiraighter .feule,the kw is no inf rumentali eau-te offaith, repentance, or anygrace; it onely twaundeth a man, andprepa- reth him to conuerliou, but conuerteth none; it gendreth to bondage: and hindeth hire that looketh for iutiification by ;r, in the cotta^5 ior, of hune, and deferued damnation, and there leaurtii him in death : onely I this doctrine of grace,is the tonuetting and quickning word , reneging that God through his Chrifi is become either pleafèd, .car placable with 1 vs ; till which time we cannot but either lie in flautih feare and the :linar- ting twitches ofour confciences, or éhe defperately glue otter all ;. but when by the.Gofpel we petceiue the readineffeof our heauenly Pa.eher to receive them that resume, thenwerefolue to feekevnto Eris- grace, to I ;aecome his, and to lone hirmwho loueJ us firfi. So as the bëleeuercan ready anfwer the Apefilesinïerrogarorie ,-Tellxnee, recelKedyee thefpirit, by ticworkçs o[tire I, ,or by the aririgeffuth? bytvo,rker, is meant the i doctrine of iufitftçation by the workes of the law; and bythe hearingof faith , is meant thedoctrine of the Gofpel : heating beeing put for the 'tbingheard, andfaithforthe.doEtrinebelecued: theycan :nowanfwec; . that it is the Gofptl that : eudreth vino life, which is the infirumenr of thclplric,both for the leginning, and confirming :of regeneration and 'faluition, and that the lawe is'no caufe ( though an occáfion) of Gods =race, (hewing onely the necef?icie of forte other righteoufnefte, then that in a mans felfe;.but not putting a man foprepared into:the pofìc111- ion of ir, which the Goîpel.onely :candoe. , Vie. r. lfonly the doétriueof grace bring faluation ,thenlochnodo- Ñ , s; now Etrineofworkerbringit, orvotoir,neitherinwholeorinparr.Bucthe br,;,gC,taasion. . wholeçhaineofourfaluatiónfheweth ,that we are fated bygr ce onely: 1. Our ele?lion, Rom. i 1. 5. e tthis time there is a remnant acccrdvng ro E e 4 the
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