A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written

so the Law doth direct to good works, and corrects for evil works. Aret. It reveals sin, that as in a glass we see our misery, and the penalty due to transgression. It is a corrosive laid to an old sore, not to heal the sore, that's not the act of a corrosive; but to eat out the dead flesh, to make it alive and sensible, that so our wounds may be healed by the Gospel. Therefore is not the Law contrary to the Promise; Subordinata inter se non pugnant; Things that are subordinate one to another, have a mutual offi e of serving, not of contrarying one the other. Ideo datur praeceptum, ut praecipientis quaeratur auxilium, Leo. Therefore is the Law given, that we finding our own disability to keep it, might have recourse to the Law-giver; to the sufficiency of Christ. For the Law so humbles a man with the grief of sin, and terror of Judgement, that it sends him packing to Christ,^l If any man sin, and the Law tells us, we have all sinned; we have an Advocate with the Father, and this the Gospel shows us, even Christ the Propitiation for our sins. It makes a man sing with David, Sweet, O Lord, is thy mercy. The Law may Exprimere peccatum, but it cannot Supprimere peccatum; express sin, not suppress sin. For that were to invade the office of the Promise: the office of the Law is to kill, the office of the Promise to give life. Thus we have in the Gospel Promissum vitae, the Promise of life: the Lord give us faith to apprehend vitam Promissi, the life of the Promise through JESUS CHRIST.

so the Law doth direct to good workes, and corrects for evill workes. Aret. It reveales sinne, that as in a glasse wee see our misery, and the penaltie due to transgression. It is a corrosive laid to an old sore, not to heale the sore, that's not the act of a corrosive; but to eat out the dead flesh, to make it alive and sensible, that so our wounds may be healed by the Gospell. Therefore is not the Law contrary to the Promise; Subordinata inter se non pugnant; Things that are subordinate one to another, have a mutuall offi e of serving, not of contrarying one the other. Ideo datur praeceptum, ut praecipientis quaeratur auxilium, Leo. Therefore is the Law given, that we finding our owne disabilitie to keepe it, might have recourse to the Law-giver; to the sufficiencie of Christ. For the Law so humbles a man with the griefe of sinne, and terrour of Iudgement, that it sends him packing to Christ,^l If any man sinne, and the Law tells us, we have all sinned; wee have an Advocate with the Father, and this the Gospell shewes us, even Christ the Propitiation for our sinnes. It makes a man sing with David, Sweet, O Lord, is thy mercie. The Law may Exprimere peccatum, but it cannot Supprimere peccatum; expresse sinne, not suppresse sinne. For that were to invade the office of the Promise: the office of the Law is to kill, the office of the Promise to give life. Thus we have in the Gospell Promissum vitae, the Promise of life: the Lord give us faith to apprehend vitam Promissi, the life of the Promise through IESUS CHRIST.