A continuation of the exposition of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the…

This brief Account of the weakness and unprofitableness of the Law, whereon it was disannulled and taken away, may at present suffice. The Consideration of some other things in particular will afterwards occur unto us. Only in our passage we may a little examine, or reflect on the senses that some others have given unto these words.

This brief Account of the weakness and unprofitableness of the Law, whereon it was disanulled and taken away, may at present suffice. The Consideration of some other things in particular will afterwards occur unto us. Only in our passage we may a little examine, or reflect on the senses that some others have given unto these words.

Schlictingius in his Comment on the next verse gives this Account of the state of the Law. Lex expiationem concedebat leviorum delictorum, idque ratione poenae alicujus arbitrariae tantum: gravioribus autem peccatis quibus mortis poenam fixerat, nullam reliquer at veniam, maledictionis fulmen vibrans in omnes qui graviùs peccássent. But these things are neither accommodate unto the Purpose of the Apostle, nor true in themselves. For (1) The Law denounced the Curse equally unto every Transgression, be it small or great; Cursed is he who continueth not in all things. (2) It expiated absolutely no Sin small nor great, by its own power and efficacy; neither did it properly take away any punishment temporal or eternal. That some sins were punished with Death, and some were not, belonged unto the Polity of the Government erected among that People. But (3) As unto the Expiation of Sin, the Law had an equal respect unto all the Sins of Believers, great and small; it Typically represented the Expiation of them all in the Sacrifice of Christ, and so confirmed their Faith as to the Forgiveness of Sin, but farther it could not proceed.

Schlictingius in his Comment on the next verse gives this Account of the state of the Law. Lex expiationem concedebat leviorum delictorum, idque ratione poenae alicujus arbitrariae tantum: gravioribus autem peccatis quibus mortis poenam fixerat, nullam reliquer at veniam, maledictionis fulmen vibrans in omnes qui graviùs peccássent. But these things are neither accommodate unto the Purpose of the Apostle, nor true in themselves. For (1) The Law denounced the Curse equally unto every Transgression, be it small or great; Cursed is he who continueth not in all things. (2) It expiated absolutely no Sin small nor great, by its own power and efficacy; neither did it properly take away any punishment temporal or eternal. That some sins were punished with Death, and some were not, belonged unto the Politie of the Government erected among that People. But (3) As unto the Expiation of Sin, the Law had an equal respect unto all the Sins of Believers, great and small; it Typically represented the Expiation of them all in the Sacrifice of Christ, and so confirmed their Faith as to the Forgiveness of Sin, but farther it could not proceed.