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

And then determining that Question, Whether this new Evangelical Law hath the Virtue of justifying a Man? he decides it in these two Propositions; ^m1. The Evangelical Law, if its pure Instructions and Commands, and Substance of its Works be considered, doth no more in it self justify than the old Law, or the Law of Nature it self. 2. The Evangelical Law, if its internal Virtue is considered, justifies a Man.

And then determining that Question, Whether this new Evangelical Law hath the Virtue of justifying a Man? he decides it in these two Propositions; ^m1. The Evangelical Law, if its pure Instructions and Commands, and Substance of its Works be considered, doth no more in it self justify than the old Law, or the Law of Nature it self. 2. The Evangelical Law, if its internal Virtue is consider'd, justifies a Man.

1. mPrime conclusio est: Lex Evangelica, si pura documenta & mandata, atque opetum substantiam consideres, non magis per se justificat, quam vetus, vel Lex ipsa naturae.—Secunda conclusio: Lex Evangelica, si internam ejus virtutem mediteris, hominem justificat. Id. Ibid. Quaest. 7. Art. 2. Fol. 61. pag. 2.

Albertus Pighius, who lived at the same Time, speaking of the Cup in the Sacrament:ⁿ This is the Cup, (says he) not of that old Testament, which was then presently to be disannulled, but of the New and Eternal Covenant, of the new Law promulgated in a new manner.

Albertus Pighius, who lived at the same Time, speaking of the Cup in the Sacrament:ⁿ This is the Cup, (says he) not of that old Testament, which was then presently to be disannull'd, but of the New and Eternal Covenant, of the new Law promulgated in a new manner.