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A88657	An abstract of a commentarie by Dr. Martyn Luther, u[pon] the Galathians. Wherein the difference betweene the law, the gospell, and the strength of faith is declared. Whereunto is added divine and morall Latine sentences, taken out of the fathers, and other authors, which are cited i[n the] margent of the Practise of piety, but not E[ng]lished there; which for their excellency, and benefit of those who understand not Latine, are here translated.; In epistolam Sancti Pauli ad Galatas commentarius. English	Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.; Ferrers, Edmund.	1642 (1642)	Wing L3508; Thomason E147_12; ESTC R212720	18,488	30

as were his friendes but for wicked sinners for the unworthy and for his enemies who have deserved Gods wrath and everlasting death Who gave himselfe for our sinnes Gal. 1.4 God so loved the World that he gave his onely be gotten Sonne that whosoever beleeveth in him should not perish but have everlasting life John 3.16 The Lord hath laid all our iniquitie upon him For the transgression his people was he smitten Esay 53.6.8 Christ is the Sonne of God and of the Virgin Definition delivered and put to death for our sinnes therefore he is no Tyrant or Judge which will condemne us for our sinnes hee is no caster downe of the afflicted but a raiser up of those that are fallen a mercifull releiver and comforter of the heavy and broken hearted The World is the Kingdome of the Devill Every one that teacheth that works doe justifie is a troubler of the Church and of mens consciences Christ and the Law can by no means agree and raigne together in the conscience for the righteousnesse of the Law and the righteousnesse of Grace are contrary And if thou canst not beleeve that God will forgive thy sinnes for Christs sake whom he sent into the World to be our high Priest how then wilt thou beleeve that he will forgive the same for the workes of the Law which thou couldest never performe It seemeth to be a light matter to mingle the Law and the Gospell faith and workes together but it doth more mischeife then mans reason can conceive There is nothing in us able to deserve grace and the for givenesse of sinnes But we obtaine this grace by the free mercy of God onely for Christs sake The knowledge of Christ and of Faith is no worke of man but simply the gift of God We may more safely attribute too much unto God then unto man Mans reason hath the Law for his object but faith being in her owne proper office hath no other object but Jesus Christ It saith not What have I done What have I offended What have I deserved But what hath Christ done What hath hee deserved Whereunto the truth of the Gospell answereth thee hee hath redeemed thee from thy sinne from the Devill and from eternall death which faith acknowledgeth and beleeveth And whosoever turneth away his eyes from this object hath no true faith but a fantasie and a vaine opinion and turneth his eyes from the promise to the Law which terrifieth and driveth to desperation For a true and stedfast faith must lay hold on nothing else but Christ alone who justifieth and needs not to be furnished with charity as Popish Schoolemen teach The proper office of the Law teacheth what I ought to doe The Gospell teacheth what Jesus Christ the Sonne of God hath done for me to wit that he suffered and dyed to deliver me from sinne and death We must not trust or glory in any earthly thing but in God alone Non patitus ludum fima fides oculus Faith maketh a man here like unto God who is immutable so is faith and therefore may suffer nothing give place to no man Nothing fighteth more strongly against Faith then the Law and reason which we must conquer if we will be saved For the conscience must be free from the Law but the body must be obedient to the Law There is as great difference between the righteousnesse of the Gospell and of the Law as God hath made betweene Heaven and Earth light and darknesse day and night The Gospell justifieth in Heaven and the Law on Earth To abstaine from certaine meates for conscience sake is to deny Christ and to overthrow the Gospell God never gave to any man grace and everlasting life for the merit of Congruence or worthinesse For grace cannot be deserved by workes for whatsoever is not of faith is sinne Wherefore hee that would deserve Grace by workes going before faith goeth about to please God with sins The first part of Christianity is the preaching of Repentance and the knowledge of our selves And the second part is not to seeke salvation by workes Christ is no Law-giver but a forgiver of sinnes and a Saviour For wee are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus whom God hath set forth to be a reconciliation unto us through faith in his blood Rom. 3.24 25. These three things Faith Christ Acceptation or Imputation must be joyned together To him that beleeveth sinne is pardoned and righteousnesse imputed but not for the merit of congruence and worthinesse Hee that honoureth me I will honour they that despise me shall be despised 2 Sam. 2.30 By the deeds of the Law no flesh shall be justified Christ is the end and fulfilling of the Law unto righteousnesse The Papists by their doctrine make Christ Moses and Moses Christ turning Grace into the Law and the Law into Grace But it is the proper office of Christ to deliver from sinne and death for he is our reconciliation righteousnesse peace life and salvation And therefore we are justified and reputed righteous before God by faith onely in Christ for we must be dead to the Law if we will live to God But when I have apprehended Christ by faith and through him am dead to the Law justified from sinne delivered from death the Devill and Hell then I doe good workes I love God I give thankes to him I exercise charity towards my neighbour But this charity or workes following doe neither forme nor adorne my faith but my faith formeth and adorneth charity For this is the victorie that overcommeth the World even our Faith 1 John 5.4 Whilest Christ is the Law he is also liberty whilest hee is sinne he is righteousnesse and whilest he is death he is life For in that hee suffered the Law to accuse him sinne to condemne him and death to devoure him hee abolished the Law he condemned sinne he destroyed death he justified and saved mee The Law is crucified and dead unto those onely which beleeve in Christ Therefore in the matter of Justification thou must not separate the person of Christ from thy person By faith we are so joyned together that wee are become one flesh and one bone Ephes 5.30 Good workes ought to be done not as the cause but as the fruits of righteousnesse The Tree maketh the Apple but not the Apple the Tree I live by faith in the Sonne of God who loved me and gave himselfe for me confutes the doctrine to bee able to doe meritorious workes before Grace Ex puris naturalibus c. Workes of supererogation the Papists call those which they doe of their owne devotion more then God requireth Vltra posse viri non vult Dous ulla requiri and such like sentences properly pertaine to the government of Common-wealths and Families and are not to be applyed to the Church Christ is infinite mercy and goodnesse freely given and bountifully giving unto us To reject and refuse the grace

of God is to seeke righteousnesse by the Law The holy Ghost was not given by the Law but by the hearing of the Gospell Cornelius received not the holy Ghost by the Almes which he gave but when Peter had opened his mouth and was yet in speaking the holy Ghost fell upon all them which with Cornelius heard the word Acts 10.44 God gave the holy Ghost to the Gentlles who lived without the Law and to the Jewes by the preaching of the Gospell or hearing of Faith in Christ preached and not at the preaching of the Law nor by the workes of the Law So it appeareth that the Law never bringeth the holy Ghost but onely teacheth what wee ought to doe therefore it justifieth not But the Gospell bringeth the holy Ghost because it teacheth what we ought to receive The Gentiles justified without the Law as the Nine vites And the Ninevites beleeved God and proclaimed a Fast and put on Sack-cloth Jonah 3.5 Naaman the Syrian Job and diverse others Received yee the holy Ghost by the workes of the Law or by the hearing of faith preached saith Saint Paul Gal. 3.2 A man is made a Christian not by working but by hearing and when he hath received the Gospell let him afterwards exercise himselfe in those good workes which are commanded by the Law so that the Law and workes may follow faith Feare not little flock for it is your Fathers pleasure to give unto you loe to give unto you a Kingdome Luke 12.22 Martha Martha thou carest and art troubled about many things but one thing is needfull Mary hathchosen the good part which shall not bee taken from her Luke 10.41 42. Abraham was justified before God not because he did worke but because he did beleeve Galat. 3.6 For Abraham beleeved God and it was imputed to him for righteousnesse Gen. 15.6 Saint Paul by these wordes Abraham beleeved Of faith in God maketh the cheifest worshippe the cheifest duty the cheifest obedience and the cheifest sacrifice For faith is an almighty thing and the power thereof is infinite and inestimable Christian righteousnesse consisteth in two things in faith of the heart and in Gods imputation for Christs sake Faith killeth reason Christ is our cloudie Piller for the day and our Piller of fire by the night least God should see our sinne Exod 13.21 Hee hath loved us and given himselfe in very deed for us hee was made accursed for us c. Galat. 3.13 Christ is called our object because the eye of our faith is directed unto him There is no damnation to them that are in Christ Jesu with faith alwayes must bee joyned a certaine assurance of Gods mercy for Christs sake The seed of the Woman shall bruise the Serpents head Gen 3.15 The promise of blessing was given unto Abraham before Circumcision and foure hundred and thirty yeares before the Law Abraham which saw my day and rejoyced John 8.56 In thee shall all the Nations bee blessed Gen. 12.9 There is great difference betweene Christ blessing and redeeming and Christ working and giving example So there was betweene beleeving and working Abraham they which are of faith are blessed with faithfull Abraham saith Saint Paul And as many as are of the workes of the Law are accursed which is not a corporall but a spirituall curse They therefore that hold on the Law and seeke to be justified thereby despising the promise are accursed The true doer of the Law is hee who receiving the holy Ghost through faith in Christ beginneth to love God and doe good unto his neighbour For without faith it is impossible to please God Heb 11.6 So that faith incorporateth the worke and giveth it his perfection All sentences in Scripture concerning workes and rewardes must be Spiritually expounded If thou beleeve sinne death and the curse to be abolished thev are abolished for Christ hath vanquished and abolished all these things and wheresoever is a true faith in him there sinne is abolished dead and buried Learne in all tentations to translate sinne death the curse and all evils which oppresse us from our selves unto Christ and againe from him unto our selves righteousnesse mercy life and blessing God the Father cast the iniquities of us all as Esay the Prophet saith upon him which he tooke willingly upon him that hee might fulfill the will of his Father by which wee are sanctified for ever Let Christ be alwayes before thine eyes as a certaine summary of all Arguments for defence of faith against the righteousnesse of the flesh against the Law and against all workes and merits whatsoever The Law was added for transgressions saith Saint Paul wherefore the first use of the Law was to bridle the wicked least the course of the Gospell should be hindered by the tumults and seditions of the wicked outragious and proud men which is civill The other use of the Law is divine and spirituall which is as Saint Paul saith To increase transgressions that is to reveale unto a man his sinne thereby to beate downe the opinion of righteousnesse which abideth in man and is a Minister that prepareth the way unto grace The Law with his office helpeth by occasion to Justification in that it driveth a man to the promise of grace and maketh the same sweet and comfortable unto him and is a true and profitable Minister which driveth a man to Christ For God is present unto the afflicted and broken hearted and this is the best and most perfect use of the of the law Rom. 10.4 So farre forth as I doe apprehend Christ by faith so much is the law abolished unto me But my flesh the world and the Divell doe hinder faith in me that it cannot be perfect He gave power to as many as beleeued in him to be the children of God Ioh. 1.12 So many as are justified are not justified by the observation of mans lawes or Gods lawes but by Christ alone who hath abolished all lawes Jesus Christ is one yesterday and to day and shall be the same for ever Christ is the end of the law unto righteousnes to every one that beleeveth Christ was made a curse for us that he might deliver us from the curse of the law I came not to judge the world but that the world should be saved by me Ioh. 12.47 Evill instruction will increase and confirme the pernicious error of blind reason which naturally iudgeth Christ to be a law-giver and printeth that error mightily in our mindes that without great travaile and difficulty it can never be abolished O law thou hast no power over me and therefore thou doest accurse and condemne me in vaine for I beleeve in Jesus Christ the Sonne of God whom the father sent in to the world to redeeme us miserable sinners oppressed with the tiranny of the law he gave his life and shed his blood for me therefore feeling thy terrors and threatnings O Law I plunge my conscience in the wounds blood death resurrection and victory of

my Saviour Christ besides him I will see nothing I wil heare nothing This faith is our victory whereby we overcome the terrour of the Law sinne death and all evils and yet not without great Conflicts Come unto me saith Christ all ye that labour under the Yoke of the Law Mat. 11.28 for I have vanquished the Law by double right and authority first as the Sonne of God and Lord of the Law Secondly in your person which is as much as if yee had overcome the Law your selves for my victorie is yours If any man have not the Spirit of Christ the same is none of his Rom. 8.9 If a man be uncertaine and stand in doubt of the grace and favor of God towardes him then Christ profiteth nothing for he that doubteth of Gods favour towardes him must needs doubt also of the promises of God and soe consequently of the will of God and of the benefites of Christ namely that he was borne suffered died and rose againe for us c. If we could fully assure our selues and constantly beleeve that God is our Father and we his sonnes and heires then should we overcome the Law your selves for my victorie is yours If any man have not the Spirit of Christ the same is none of his Rom. 8.9 If a man be uncertaine and stand in doubt of the grace and favour of God towardes him then Christ profiteth nothing for he that doubteth of Gods favour towardes him must needs doubt also of the promises of God and so consequently of the will of God and of the benefites of Christ namely that he was borne suffered died and rose againe for us c. If we could fully assure our selves and constantly beleeve that God is our Father and we his sonnes and heires then should we utterly contemne this world with all the glory righteousnes wisedome and power and with al the riches and pleasures thereof neither should wee be so carefull for this life Whosoever apprehendeth the son and me and my promise in him by faith to him I am a God to him I am a father him doe I accept justifie and save Christ is the finishing and accomplishing of the Law to righteousnes to every one that beleeueth Ro. 10.4 They that beleeve in him shal be blessed with faithfull Abraham they are the sonnes and heires of God who giveth the word which when we haue received by faith given from above we are new borne and the sonnes of God for there is no other name given unto men under heaven whereby they must be saved The heart being furnished with this confidence or assurance to wit that for Christes sake we are righteous hath the true forme of Christ which is given by the Ministrie of the word as it is said 1. Cor. 4. J have begotten you through the Gospell that is to say in spirit that ye might know Christ and beleeue in him We must distinguish the heavenly and spirituall blessing from the earthly for the earthly blessing is to have a good civil government both in Common-wealthes and Families to have children peace riches fruits of the earth and other temporall commodities But the heavenly blessing is to be delivered from the Law sinne and death to be justified and quickned to life to have peace with God to have a faithfull heart a joyfull conscience and spiritual consolation to have the knowledge of Jesus Christ to have the gift of prophecy the revelation of the scriptures to have the guifts of the holy Ghost and to reioyce in God These are the heavenly guifts which Christ giveth to his Church A Christian laying hold of the benefits of Christ through faith hath no Law but all the Law is to him abolished with all his terrors and torments For Christ hath made us free not civilly nor carnally but divinely That is to say we are made free in such sort that our consciences are now free and quiet not fearing the wrath of God to come And certainly this christian libertie swalloweth up at once and taketh quite away the whole heape of evils the Law sinne death Gods wrath and breifly the serpent himselfe with his head and whole power and in stead thereof it placeth righteousnes peace and everlasting life c. Therefore blessed is hee that understandeth and beleeveth And let us learne to magnifie this our libertine purchased by Jesus Christ the sonne of God by whom all things were created both in heaven earth which libertie he hath purchased with no other price then with his own bloud To deliver us not from any bodily or temporall servitude but from a spirituall and everlasting bondage under mightie and invincible Tyrants to wit the Law Sinne Death and the Devill and so to reconcile us to God his Father This libertie then is not given us by the Law or for our righteousnes but freely for Christs sake Therefore according to the Apostle Galath 5.1 Stand fast in that libertie wherein Christ hath made you free And in the 8. of John 36. If the Sonne shall make you free ye shall be free indeed And Christ himselfe Math. 9.2 saith Be of good comfort my sonne thy sinnes are forgiven thee Wherefore it is impossible for the Iusticiaries which seeke to winne heaven life and salvation by workes and merits to know what the liberty and deliverance from sinne is And Gal. 5.2 Saint Paul saith Be not intangled againe with the yoke of Bondage where the Apostle seemeth to compare those who seeke righteousnes by the Law to Oxen For like as Oxen draw in the yoke with great toile and receive nothing thereby but forrage or pasture and when they bee able to draw the yoke no more are appointed to the slaughter Even so they that seek Righteousnes by the Law are Captives and oppressed with the yoke of bondage that is to say with the Law and when they have tired themselves a long time in the works of the Law with great and greivous toyle in the end this is their reward that they are miserable and perpetuall servants of sinne death Gods wrath and the Devill For the confidence and righteousnes of workes are nothing but maketh Christ unprofitable The Devill being the father of lying and the Enemy of Christian libertie wherein Christ hath made us free But J know Christ to be profitable unto me therefore I will not make him unprofitable which I should doe if either I should presume to purchase my selfe favor and everlasting life by my good workes or should despaire because of my sinnes For it is impossible that Christ and the Law should dwell together in one heart for either the Law or Christ must give place And to have this perswasion that it is Christ alone that iustifieth me both against my evill deeds and without my good workes is to lay hold of the true Christ But if I think that he exacteth the Law and workes of me to Salvation then he becommeth unprofitable to me and I am utterly seperated from

him And though it be true that onely faith justifieth yet after it hath justified it is not idle but occupied exercised in working through love So that the whole life of a Christian Man consisteth inwardly in faith towardes God and outwardly in charity and good workes towardes our Neighbour Hee being a perfect Christian inwardly through faith before GOD who hath no need of our workes and outwardly before men whom our faith profiteth nothing but our Charitie or our workes Christ is set out in the Scriptures as an Example and as a Gift and is to be set forth unto those who are alreadie cast downe and bruised through the heavy burden and weight of their sins as a Saviour and a gift and not as an example or a Law-giver But to those who are secure and obstinate he must be set forth as an example Faith is as a bright Sunne beame comming downe from heaven which lighteneth directeth and guideth us But both faith and charitie have their trust and beleife but after divers sorts by reason of the diversitie of their objects Faith trusteth in God and therefore cannot be deceived Charity beleeveth in man and therefore it is often deceived And let the godly remember that as in conscience before God they be free from the curse of the Law from sinne and from death for Christs sake So as touching the body they are servants and must serve one another according to Saint Paul Galath 5.13 serve ye one another through love which wordes do not set the Christians at liberty but shut them under bondage as touching the flesh which doctrine carnall men cannot conceive but good Christians gladly receive and obey it For the ungodly doe most carelesly shake of the yoke and bondage of the flesh and turne the libertie of the spirit into wantonnes and fleshly libertie not observing the commandement of charitie which is not to render evill for evill but to overcome evill with good according to the Apostle Love thy neighbour as thy selfe Faith and hope must continue that by the one we may be justified and by the other be raysed up in adversities and endure unto the end For in respect of the flesh we are sinners but in respect of the spirit we are righteous and so we are partly sinners and partly righteous but our righteousnes if we walke according to the spirit is much more plentifull then our sinne because the holines and righteousnes of Christ our Mediator doth farre exceed the sinnes of the whole world and easily swalloweth up all sins But the flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh and these are contrary one to the other So that yee cannot doe the things that yee would doe saith Saint Paul Gal. 5.17 Despaire not therefore in temptations but resist the flesh strongly and fulfil not the lust thereof Thus doing thou art not under the Law For God is mercifull to those that beleeve for Christs sake and imputeth not unto us this sinne which cannot be put away by satisfaction workes or righteousnes but onely by the death of Christ All sinne is damnable as touching the fact it selfe But in that it is not damnable to him that beleeveth it commeth of Christ who by his death hath taken away sinne But to him that beleeveth not in Christ not only all his sinnes are damnable but even his good workes are also sinne according to that saying whatsoever is not of faith is sinne The faithfull assureth himselfe by faith that his sinne is forgiven and not imputed unto him for as much as Christ hath given himselfe for it according to the Apostle Galat. 5.18 If yee bee led by the Spirit yee are not under the Law But all worshippings and services of God and all Religions without Christ are Idolatrie and Idoll service For in Christ alone the Father is well pleased He is the perfection of the Law unto righteousnesse to all that doe beleeve Wherefore let all the godly glory and rejoyce in the Crosse of Christ Jesus and not in the mouth of other men And if there be any that praise them let them receive this glory but as a shadow of true glory and let them thinke the substance of glory to bee indeed the testimony of their owne Conscience And if wee seeke first the glory of God then surely our glory will follow according to that saying Hee that bonoureth me I will glorifie And let all Ministers and Pastors endeavour purely and faithfully to teach the Word and let them have an eye to nothing else but the glory of God and salvation of soules then shall their worke be faithfull and sound We are taught out of the Word of God that there is nothing under the Sunne which availeth unto righteousnesse before God but Christ onely or as Saint Paul saith Gal. 6.15 A new Creature Politique Lawes Mens Traditions Ceremonies of the Church yea and the Law of Moses are such things as are without Christ therefore they availe not unto righteousnesse before God We may use them as things both good and necessary but in their place and time But if we talke of the matter of Justification they availe nothing but hurt very much Wherefore in Christ Jesu or in the matter of Justification we must not dispute of the lawes either of the Jewes or of the Gentiles But we must simply pronounce that neither Circumcision or Vncircumcision availeth any thing in the cause of Faith and Salvation understanding by Circumcision all the Jewes by Vncircumcision all the Gentiles with all their force and all their glory For if Lawes be so set forth and urged as though the keeping of them did justifie a Man or the breaking thereof did condemne him they ought to be taken away and abolished For then Christ looseth his office and his glory who onely justifieth us and giveth us the holy Ghost And a new Creature is the gift of the holy Ghost which cleanseth our heart by faith and worketh the feare of God love chastity and other Christian vertues and giveth power to bridle the flesh and to reject the righteousnesse and wisedome of the World This being the onely and true rule wherein wee ought to walke namely the new Creature which is neither Circumcision nor Vncircumcision But the new man created unto the Image of God in righteousnesse and true holinesse is he who inwardly is righteous in the spirit and outwardly is holy and cleane in the flesh To them who walke after this Rule belongeth peace that is the favour of God forgivenesse of sinnes quietnesse of conscience and mercy That is to say helpe in afflictions and pardon of the remnants of sinne which remaine in our flesh Yea although they which walke after this Rule be overtaken with any sinne yet for that they are the children of grace and peace mercy upholdeth them so that their sinne and fall shall not be laid to their charge God is not a Merchant that will sell unto us his grace for our