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For it was not in our choice to be borne, or not to be borne of the old Adam, & according to the flesh, which by other arguments is evident, and clear enough. For if the law of God (which surly, if any other thing in the world might have justified, ⟨image 27⟩ought to have prevailed and availed for righteousness) doth not only not justify, but rather increaseth & augmenteth sin in us, namely, that grudging & fretting of our nature, daily stomacking & murmuring at God: yea the more it doth press us, the more it stirreth up sin in our nature,¹ which goeth against all whatsoever is forbidden. Therefore the more perfectly we know the law the more misery we behold in our selves, and we see the better how that we have more need of Christ.

For it was not in our choise to be borne, or not to be borne of the old Adam, & according to the flesh, which by other arguments is evident, and cleare enough. For if the law of God (which surly, if any other thing in the world might haue justified, ⟨image 27⟩ought to haue prevailed and availed for righteousnes) doth not only not justifie, but rather increaseth & augmenteth sinne in vs, namely, that grudging & fretting of our nature, dayly stomacking & murmuring at God: yea the more it doth presse vs, the more it stirreth vp sinne in our nature,¹ which goeth against all whatsoever is forbidden. Therefore the more perfitly we know the law the more misery we behold in our selves, and we see the better how that wee have more need of Christ.

1. 1Nitimur in vetitum semper cupimusque negata.