A discourse of the true nature of the Gospel demonstrating that it is no…

Now any one would think, that this Luther would never call the Gospel a Law; and yet so he doth, expounding a little after the 19th Verse, and is before cited by me. And in what Sense he means the Gospel to have that Name, he informs us plainly, in his Comment on Isa. 2. 3. Out of Zion shall go forth the Law.^b This is the Cause (says he) of the Multiplication of the Church, and of the Amplification of Christ's Kingdom, viz. the Preaching of the Gospel: For he here promiseth a new Word. For unless he signified a new Doctrine, what need was there at length to promise a Law, which had been made so many Years before? And he manifestly signifies the difference, in that he adds, out of Zion: As if he should say, I first gave a Law in Sinai, I will now give another in Mount Zion, which shall not be a Doctrine of Works, but of Faith; not of Laws, but of Grace; not accusing, but bestowing pardon of Sins, &c.

1. bQuia de Sion exhibit Lex. Haec est causa multiplicandae Ecclesiae, & Regni Christi ampliandi, praedicatio scilicet Evangelii. Promittit enim, hîc novum verbum, nisi enim novam Doctrinam significaret, quid opus erat denuo promittere Legem, quae tot annis antè lata erat? Et manifestè significat differentiam quod addit, de Sion. q. d. prius dedi Legem in Sinai, nunc aliam dabo in Sion Monte, quae non erit doctrina operum, sed Fidei, non Legum, sed Gratiae, non accusans sed conferens remissionem peccatorum. Luther. Enarrat. in Esa. 2. Fol. 292. Pag. 1. Tom. 3. oper.

Calvin also agrees with Luther in this: And indeed those two Holy Men, tho they differed in some things, yet they very well accorded in the main Substance of the Gospel. They believed on the same Jesus, and loved the Truth of his Grace. Calvin likewise says, that when the Gospel is called Law, a Doctrine of Salvation is only meant by it; For (says he, explaining ⟨p. 38⟩