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Thou that sayst a man should not commit adultery, doft thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest Idols, dost thou kcommit facrilege? 23. Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God? 24. For the name of God is blafphemed among the Gentiles, through you, as it is written. 25. For circumcifion verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcifion is made uncircumcifion. 26. Therefore, if the uncircumcifion keep the righteoufness of the law, shall not his uncircumcifion be counted for circumcifion? 27. And shall not uncircumcifion which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee who by the letter and circumcifion doft tranfgress the law. 28. For • he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcifion which is outward in the flesh: 29. But he is a Jew which is one inwardly; and circumcifion is that

22.k Mal. 3. 8. Will a Man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me: but ye say, wherein have we robbed thee? in Tithes and Offerings. 23. † Ver. 17.

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24. m 1 Tim. 6. 1. Let as many Servants as fare funder the Yoke, count their own Masters worthy of all Honour, that the Name of God and his Doctrine be not to Children, ye would do the Works

blafphemed. † Tit. 2. 5,8. -That the Word of God be not blasphemed.That he that is of the contrary Part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

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of Abraham. † Rom. 9. 6, 7. They are not all Ifrael, which are of Ifrael: neither because they are the seed of Abraham are they all Children. Rom. 14. 17. The Kingdom of God is not Meat and Drink, but Righteousness, Peace, and Joy in the Holy Ghost. † Gal. 6. 16. As many as walk according to this Rule, Peace be on them, and Mercy, and upon the Ifrael of God. † Rev.2.9. I know the Blafphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not.i

29. P†1 Pet. 3. 4. Let it be the hidden Man of the Heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the Ornament of a meek and quiet Spirit, which is in the Sight of God of great Price.

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Children. Pfal. 147. 19, 20. He sheweth his Word unto Jacob, his Statutes and his Judgments unto Ifrael. He hath not dealt so with a

Rom. 7. 6. That we should serve in newness of Spirit, and not in the oldness of the Letter. † 2 Cor. 3. 6. Who also hath made us able Minifters of the New-Testa-sny Nation: and as for his Judg. ments, they have not known them. + Rom. 9. 4. Who are Ifraelites; to whom pertaineth -the giving of the Law.

ment, not of the Letter, but of the Spirit: for the Letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth Life.

s+ 1 Cor. 4. 5.- Then [when -the Lord shall come to Judgment] TO shall every Man have Praise of God. † 2 Cor. 10. 18. Not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. + 1 Thef. 2. 4. As we 15 were allowed of God to be put in trust with the Gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing Men, but God, which trieth our Hearts. CHAP. III.

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•† Numb. 23. 19 God is not a Man that he should lie, neither the Son of Man that he should repent : hath he said, and shall he

not do it? or hath he spoken, and Na-shall he not make it good? † Rom. 9.6. Not as though the Word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Ifrael which are of Ifrael. Rom. 11. 29. The Gifts and

2. 3. Deut. 4. 8. What tion is there so great, that hath Statutes and Judgments so righteous, as all this Lam which I set before you this Day? Pfal. 78.5. He established a Testimony in Jacob, and 25 Calling of God are without Repen

appointed a Law in Ifrael, which he commanded our Fathers, that they should make them known to their

tance. † 2 Tim. 2. 13. If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful; he cannot deny himself.

(1) It is certain that the Jews did not receive the Books called the Apochrypha as a part of the Scriptures of the Old-Testament; notwithstand. ing which the Apostle here reckons it to be one Advantage which the Jews had above other Nations, that unto them were committed the Oracles of God; it is likewise certain, that neither our Lord, nor his Apostles, charge them with a Breach of Trust, though they did not own nor receive them, which they questionless would have done, had the Jews finned in not receiving them. We have therefore here a very good Argument to prove against the Church of Rome, that the Apochryphal Books are not a Part of the Holy Scripture. Some of them, particularly the Books of Wisdom and Ecclefiafticus, contain excellent moral Precepts. Our Church therefore allows them to be read for example of Life, and inftrustion of Manners; but she doth not apply them to establish any Doctrine.

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unbelief make the faith of God without effect? 4. d God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar, as it is written, That thou mightst be & justified in thy fayings, and mightst overcome when thou art judged. 5. But if our unrighteousness commend the rightedusiness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) 6. God forbid: for then * how shall God judge the world? 7. For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a finner? 8. And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as fome affirm that we fay) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just. 9. What then? are we better than they? No in no wife: for we have before * proved [Gr. charged] both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under fin; io. As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that feeketh after God. 12. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable, there is none that doth good, no not one. 13. Their throat is an open fepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; them poison of afps is under their lips: 14. Whose mouth is full of curfing and bitterness. 15. Their feet are swift to shed blood.

† Pfal. 62. 9. Surely Men of low Degree are Vanity, and Men of high Degree are a lie. + Pfal. 116. 11. I faid in my haste, all Men are liars.

Job 40. 8. Wilt thou alfo disannul my Judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayst be righteous? *Pfal. 51.4.-That thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and clear when thou judgeft.

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13. Pfal. 5. 9. There is no faithfulness in their Mouth, their inward Part is very Wickedness; their Throat is an open Sepulchre, they flatter with their Tongue.

m† Pfal. 140. 3. They have sharpned their Tongues like a Serpent; Adders Poison is under their Lips. Jam. 3.8. The Tongue can no Man tame; it is an unruly Evil, full of deadly Poison.

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16. Destruction and misery are in their ways: 17. And the way of peace have they not known. 18. There is no fear of God before their eyes. 19. Now we know that what things foever the law faith, it faith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God [Or, fubject to the judgment of God]. 20. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his fight: for by the law, knowledge of fin. 21. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witneffed by the law and the prophets; 22. Even the righteoufness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all, and upon all them that believe; for there is no difference: 23. Ford all have finned, and come short of the glory.

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Shed Blood. + Ifa. 59. 7, 8. Their Feet run to evil, and they make hafte to shed innocent Blood: their Thoughts are Thoughts of Iniquity, wafting and deftruction are in their Paths: The Way of Peace they know not, and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked Paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not 10 The Scripture hath concluded all know Peace.

18. P Pfal. 36. 1. The Tranfgression of the Wicked faith within my Heart, there is no fear of God before his Eyes.

19. 4 Joh. 10. 34. Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your

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† Ezek. 16. 63. That thou mayst remember and be confounded, and never open thy Mouth any more because of thy Shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, faith the Lord God.

20. S † Gal. 2.16. Eph 2. 8. See on Acts 13. 39. † Rom. 7. 7. - I had not known Sin, but by the Law: for I had not known Luft, except the Law had faid, Thou shalt not

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24. Ifa. 55. 1. Ho, every 15 one that thirsteth come ye to the Waters, and he that hath no Money; come ye, buy and eat, yea, come, buy Wine and Milk without Money and without Price. Joh. 3. 16. God so loved the World, that be gave his only begotten Son.1 Tim. 2. 6. Who gave himself a Ransom for all.

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* through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ: 25. Whom God hath * *fet forth [Or, fore-ordained] to be a Propitiation, through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the * remiffion [Or, paffing over] of fins that are paft, through the forbearance of God; 26. To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. 27. Where is m boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay, but by the law of faith. 28. Therefore we conclude, that a man is justified by faith (1) without the deeds

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Rom. 2. 17, 23. Beshold, thou art called a Jew, and refteft in the Law, and makest thy boast of God. Thou that makest thy boast of the Law, through breaking the Law dishonourest thou

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