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Secondly, the law requires not only hard, but impossible things, impossible to be performed by those that are under it, the law it is a yoke that neither we nor our fathers were able to bear Acts 15. 10. but that you will say is meant of the ceremonial law: I, but there is more in it then so, for do but consider the occasion of that speech, it was upon this ground, there were some that came from the Church of Jerusalem to the Church of Antioch, and they troubled the disciples there with two doctrines, the doctrine of the necessity of the ceremonial law, and the doctrine of being justified by the law; now this Church of Antioch sends to the Church of Jerusalem, to be satisfied about both these questions, and that which is spoken is spoken concerning them both, not only the ceremonial law was that whereby they looked for justification, but the moral law too, and both were a yoke that neither they nor their fathers were able to bear; and the rather it must be meant of both, because in the very next words we find it opposed to the grace of Christ, in vers. 11. But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, we shall be saved even as they. As if he should say, you must not think to be saved by the law, but by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ is opposed to our justification, by obedience to the moral law, as well as to the ceremonial: so that the moral law is a yoke that neither we nor our fathers were able to bear. It requires of us such things as are impossible to be done by those that are under it. We must not dispute now how this can be, or the justice of it; that will fall in afterward.

Secondly, the law requires not onely hard, but impossible things, impossible to be performed by those that are under it, the law it is a yoke that neither we nor our fathers were able to bear Acts 15. 10. but that you wil say is meant of the ceremoniall law: I, but there is more in it then so, for do but consider the occasion of that speech, it was upon this ground, there were some that came from the Church of Jerusalem to the Church of Antioch, and they troubled the disciples there with two doctrines, the doctrine of the necessity of the ceremoniall law, and the doctrine of being justified by the law; now this Church of Antioch sends to the Church of Jerusalem, to be satisfied about both these questions, and that which is spoken is spoken concerning them both, not onely the ceremonial law was that whereby they lookt for justification, but the morrall law too, and both were a yoke that neither they nor their fathers were able to bear; and the rather it must be meant of both, because in the very next words we finde it opposed to the grace of Christ, in vers. 11. But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, we shall be saved even as they. As if he should say, you must not think to be saved by the law, but by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ is opposed to our justification, by obedience to the morrall law, as well as to the ceremonial: so that the morral law is a yoke that neither we nor our fathers were able to beare. It requires of us such things as are impossible to be done by those that are under it. We must not dispute now how this can be, or the justice of it; that will fall in afterward.