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

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⟩Isa. 2. 3.)^a since the Rule of Holiness is to be fetched from the Law, by a Synecdoche they were accustomed to comprehend the whole Doctrine of God under that Name, as also the Worship of God under the Name of an Altar. Now as it would be absurd to infer, that the Ministers of Christ are Levitical Priests, because the Apostle says, that they ought to be partakers with the Altar, and live by the Gospel; or to endeavour to prove, that the old Jewish Worship is yet standing, and that Sacrifices should be offered under the New Testament, because the Apostle speaks of an Altar too, to which Believers came, and of which they have right to eat, Heb. 13. 10. So the way of arguing would be equally impertinent, to conclude from the Gospel's being named a Law, that it is a Doctrine of Works.

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 lov'd 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⟩Isa. 2. 3.)^a since the Rule of Holiness is to be fetch'd from the Law, by a Synecdoche they were accustomed to comprehend the whole Doctrine of God under that Name, as also the Worship of God under the Name of an Altar. Now as it would be absurd to infer, that the Ministers of Christ are Levitical Priests, because the Apostle says, that they ought to be partakers with the Altar, and live by the Gospel; or to endeavour to prove, that the old Jewish Worship is yet standing, and that Sacrifices should be offer'd under the New Testament, because the Apostle speaks of an Altar too, to which Believers came, and of which they have right to eat,