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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

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

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