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¹In the third Chap. he declareth that both the Jews and the Gentiles are alike sinners ⟨image 21⟩before God:² notwithstanding that the Jews are preferred & excel the Gentiles in this prerogative, namely, for that the promises of God did belong to them, & also for that the words and Oracles of God were committed unto them. And though some of the Jews did not believe, yet for all that their unbelief made not the faithful trueth of Gods promises vain, void, or without effect: and to prove this, he allegeth that place of the 51. Psalm: as it is written (saith he) that thou mightest be justified in thy words, and overcome when thou art judged. After this he returneth to his cause and purpose, and proveth by the Scriptures, that all are equally sinners without any exception, & ⟨image 22⟩that no man is justified by the works of the law: but that only by the law cometh the knowledge of sin. Finally he teacheth the true & right ways of righteousness and salvation. All (saith he) have sinned,³ and are destitute and deprived o• the glory of God: but they are justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom GOD hath set forth to be a reconciliation through faith in his blood. And a little before: But now (saith he) is the righteousness of GOD made manifest without the law, being approved by the testimony and witness of the law and the Prophets, to wit, the righteousness of God, by the faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon al• ⟨image 22⟩that believe. So then the law is established through faith, although works and glorying in the works of the law are excluded by faith.

¹In the third Chap. hee declareth that both the Iewes and the Gentiles are alyke sinners