** * ** *014114 ?14140141) 44446444444.44444 THE EPISTLE OF THÉ APOSTLE PAVL T-0 T H E ROMANES, Explained and opened familiarly, iii Form of a Dialogue between TIMOTHEc)S and SILAS. Wherein ye have for the moll part, Seven things per- i The Scope formed on eve- z The Summe with their formed : 3 The Method feverall Ty q. Interpretation 5 Dot7rinet 6 Reafons 7 Vfe.r of ever' Text. DIALOGUE I. TIMOTREV S. Hat tna, the chide argument and occafion of writing this Epifile? Silas, A difference and diffention betweene the Jewes and Gentiles, which was abufed by the malice of Satan,and was likely to have much hindred the courfe of the Gofpell ; yea, to have ftifled and choa- ked it in the very cradle and beginning. For, the Jewes which did beleeve, did thinke (through the fuggeflion of fotne falfe Apoftles, Mks 15.) that the Le- gall Ceremonies were to be (till obfer- ved, as neceflary to falvation, that un- lclhe men were circumcifed, and kept the Law, they could not be jultiticd and Caved by Chrift: Whereas the beleeving Gentiles did know by the doEtrine of theGofpell, their exemption from Mo- fes Law, being taught, that in the death and paffion of our Lord, all Legal! rites were fully determined ; and that Faith alone inChrift, was fufciene tdjuftifi- cation before God. Hereupotn, arofe no (Mall dilcord betweene Jewes and Gentiles,which were mixed together; the Jewes bearing themfelves infolent- ly becauCe of their priviledges, defpìled the Gentiles as enemies of Mofet Law; and the Gentiles inCalting over the B Jcwcs,
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