The sick mans salve Wherein the faithful christians may learn both how to behave…The sycke mans salue VVherin the faithfull christians may learne both how to behaue…

Phile. Christ sayeth in the Gospel.¹ Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the Prophets, no. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. All we are destroyers ⟨p. 394⟩and breakers of the law, but Christ is a perfect fulfiller of the same, not for him self, but for us, and his fulfilling, is our fulfilling. The holy Apostle in his epistle to the Romans, sayeth. There is no damnation to them,² which are in Christ Jesus, which walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit. For the law of the spirit of life through Jesus Christ hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do (inasmuch as it was weak because of the flesh) that performed God, and sent his Son in the similitude of sinful flesh, and by sin damned sin in the flesh, that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, which walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. Here see you, that where as none of us was able to fulfil the law, ⟨p. 395⟩Christ the Son of God hath fulfilled it for us, and by this means delivered us from the law of sin and death.³ Again in the same Epistle, Christ is the perfect fulfilling of the law to justify all that believe. So many therefore as believe, are justified, and for them Christ hath fulfilled the law to the uttermost. To the Galatians he also sayeth,⁴ Christ hath delivered us from the curse of the law, in as much as he was made accursed for our sake.⁵ For it is written. Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree. &c. It Christ by his death and passion hath delivered us from the curse of the law, how than can the law condemn us? Item, in the same Epistle, when the time was full come,⁶ God sent his Son made of a woman, and made bond unto the law, to redeem them, which were bond unto