The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

And seeing that the alteration which is come in this behalf / is by the coming off our Saviour Christ only: it is to be inquired / what those laws are / which he put end unto. Which thing may be considered / in that division which Saint Paul useth / where he saith / that our Sa. Christ came / to make peace / first between God and men / and then between men and men: that is to say / between ¹the Jews / and Gentiles. The Ceremonial law therefore / being a law of enmity (which as a wall held out the Gentiles / from joining them selves unto the Jews) was necessary amongest other causes / in this respect / to be taken away. The curse off the law / for the breach of any the laws of god / ether pertaining to the Jews in times past or unto us now / being that which maketh the wall between the Lord and us: was for our reconciliation with his majesty / necessarily to be removed. Whereupon followeth / first that the moral law (as that which nether hindereth our reconciliation with the Lord / not our good agreement with men) is in as full strength as ever it was before the coming of our Saviour Christ. For the curse off the law / beside that it is in regard off the elect / rather fulfilled / and executed in the person off our Sa. Christ / then abrogated: beside that also / it hath a necessary use as yet towards the elect / not only to drive them to the faith which is in Christ Jesus / but also to keep under the remnants of rebellion / even of them which have already believed: and beside that the force thereof / is daily / and shall be for ever / executed upon the wicked: beside all this / seeing this curse was annexed / not only to the breach off the moral law / but also off the Ceremonial / and Judicial: there is no just cause why the moral law should be said to be abrogated. At the least / it can not stand (which the Ans. hath very dangerously set down) that the whole law off god generally is abrogated. For if a man will make the curse a ⟨p. XCVII⟩part of all the moral law / where it is rather a necessary adjunct / unto the breach of the law / then a part thereof: yet notwithstanding / that part off the moral law which standeth in commanding and forbidding / remaineth unshaken / and as concerning abrogation / untouched off our Sa. Christ.

And seing that the alteration which is come in this behalfe / is by the comming off our Sauiour Christ onely: yt is to be inquired / what those lawes are / which he put end vnto. Which thing may be considered / in that diuision which Saint Paul vseth / where he saith / that our Sa. Christ came / to make peace / first betwene God and men / and then betwene men and men: that is to say / betwene