\ere Fi, iy ; thar Believe all God's Promites, and adhere to him againſt n from | i} Temptarions to the CONtary. !; The 1: For the promiſe that he ſhould be the heir of the OY | world, !! 2yas not to Abraham x, or to his feed through Wort? y 1c law, but through che righteoutneſls of faith y. Remi « Some by the World do underſtand, the World of the Faithful, us 4 \0 Pclievers diſperſed over all the World: And ſo in Effe&t it 1s reouſncs he tame which he ſaid before, That 4braham ſhould be the Father of Grid in. |! that belive, whether of the Circumciſion or Uncircumciſion, O- | thers by the Forld, do underſtand the Land of Canaan ; under which moves | iſo, Lieaven was typically Promited and Comprehended, wid. Pulte | 45.4. 3. 3nd 11. 9, 109, 16. This by a Synecdoche, is put for all the E Fr/a ; and fo alſo Tabor and Hermon are put for the Eaft and We? es | of the whole Wor!ld, Pſal. 89. r2. This was promis'd to 4bra- nit Go, kim, and to his Seed, Gen 12. FT. and I5. 18. b s e. It was not [, ae | made to #braham, becauſe he had merited it by keeping the Law ; Ug N70 | lutbecauſe he hid believed God, and obtain'd the Righteouſneſs of | Fzich, In the whole Verſe is couch'd an Argument for Juſtificati- WM CIION | © 6; Faith without Works, which is the Apoſtle's drift; and it may ay 7 tial be thus fornt'd, if rhe Promiſe of Inheritance to Abraham and his {was to be Accompliſh'd not by Legal Obedience, but by the who ant Rightcouſncſs of Faith; then it follows, That We are Juſtified by e Circum- | 4h, and not by Works, but the Promiſe of Inheritance to Abra- a kan 1nd his Seed, was to be Accompliſh'd not by the Law, but
by the Righteouſneſs of Faith. 14 For * it they which are of the law & be heirs 4,
fach is made void 5,and the promiſe made of none effect c. i.e If they that truſt to the Fulfilling of the Law, be Heirs of the ?r.wiſ of God, and ſo the Inheritance come by Works ; then Faith ist0 n0 purpoſe, neither is there any Uſe of it, and ſo alſo the pro- niſes which are made to Believers are vain and ufeleſs. This is the Sim of this Fourteenth Verie, a more particular Explication follows, : Compare this with Gal. 3. 9, 10. There the Apoltle ſorts them that kek Righteouſneſs and Salvarion into two kinds. Firf, Some are of Faih, mnlthey are ſuch as ſeek Salvation in that way. Again,Others are of the Works of the Law, and they are luch as ſeek Salvation by means tkercof; Theſe Phraſes of the Law, and of the Works of the Law are all me, a 5.c, of the Promiſes of God ; of the Heavenly Reft,of which, as kefore,Canaan was a Type bi.e lf they which ſeek the Inheritance of rhe las, can by the Law obtain it, then there is no uſe of Faith: To vhitcend ſhould we by Fairh go out of our ſelves to ſeek Righteouſe 1: and Salvation in Chriſt, if we could obtain it by the Legal Obe- tence, See the like, Gal 5.4, © #7. e. The Promiſe it ſelf, which 1.5 made to Abraham, and his Seed, that alſo is ineffe&ual, and bovght ro nought ; no Man ſhall be Saved by it. For as much as be Law can bring no Man to the Obtaining of what is promis'd.
feſt, Thar ow theres on belongs
745 10 Cl- Hon, but
1s, To Con- ith wat thu fore he was had reſpes, WL LA00L 16, 16, | t to Circa W!,
10n, a fed | pct being” jf ll chem that riphite-
here Afffirm'd the Circumr [ hat 1t wis3 > Meaning ot is of the Co- nd r1ade Ovfl To only Place Covenant, 9%. ed 2 Seal, be- and the Rig amongſt Men
15 Becauſe * the law worketh wrath 4 :-For where no AW ls, there ts NO rranſgrettion "
a i.c, The Wrath of God: And this it doth not of its ſelf, bur $0.Cilionally 1n RefpeCt of our Diſobedience. Thisis a Confirma- Lon of what was ſaid in the foregoing Verlte : Thar the Inheritance 5 not by rhe Law, and the Works thereof ; he proves it from the Lie and Work of the Law, tuch as it hath jn all Men 1ince the Fall ; t worketþ Prath : It is ſo far from entituling Men to the Promis'd b&ſing,thar it expoſeth Men to the Curſe and Wrath of God, Gal. 3.19, 9. d. And that it worketh Wrath is Evident, becauſe it dil- wyers and occaſions Trarſzreſſions, betwixt which,and God's Wrath,
a © . » S 7J * - M . "e1san inſeparable Conne&ion. e This Affertion is ſimply True
be the 5:4: © " things indifterent,as vere all Ceremonial Obſervat:ons before the r. and made It PIcquired them - for then before rhe Law it was no Sin to Omir Apoſtle {ays of ma Burt of things which are Evil in their own Nature,it muſt be Tation, andior 25s Reſpectively, and afrer a fort. That 1s, there was no de a Promijet = op Tr anſgreſſon before the Law was given, as afterwards. The he made 3 01S are, Becaule we are Naturally bent to do that which is for-
J ! * . AE" A mus; and fo by the Prohibition of the Law, the Stubbornneſs
wat —_ tM As alſo, Becauſe by the Law comes
acyerians of 0h) cnmctf/i
bn an's Heart is increaſed. ©Clear Knowledge of Man's Duty, and ſo the Servant that knows
on, 1$ no: «MF. I w_ Oe. Y . ds b ') Maſter's W 11], and doth it not, is worthy of the more Stripes.
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ft ; , and I q« . 3” | . : Te pich rhe ” Therefore zt :s of taith, - that ir might be by grace ; ” \ | "ON _—_— . — nd Pe- ucend the promile might be {ure to] all the ſeed, f not
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1 equal Realon, Ong which is of the Jaw, but to that alſo which is i UL Ie Ay ky [ . 8 ell ro the 2 WO lath of Abraham, + who is the father of us 1s Bap7iJm®: m - Ilere ; T | Z Reehr0t 3 WM: co New Arguments to Prove, That the Inheritance is fs ich of CE te Law, but of Faith, Ir is of Faith, that it might be by : Ou: $av19 *3 tor to be Juftified by Faith, and by Grace, are all one with
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the Apoſtle. Again, 'F [tut he Prom:/c mig te fare to all the Secd , whereas, if 1t were of the Law, it would be unture and uncertuirn, becauſe of Man's Weakaeſs, who is not able to perform it. f 46-3- ham's Seed is of two Sorts, One Sort is of the Law, to wit,. th- Jews. Another Sort is, of ſuch as walk in the Steps of Abraham's Faith, whether Jews or Gentiles, To all theſe the Promiſe m4 be ſure; which cannot be, it the Lawbe made the Condition or Mc:ns of the Inheritance.
17 (As it 1s written, * I have mad thee a father of * Gen, ++ many nations) {' b-fore him whom he believed g,eve: God 5 who quickneth che dead, and calleth thoſe thinos which ! - * be not as though they were þ : et Rl