The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

Neither yet do I say that the Ceremonial Law and the Works of it are excluded from the Intention of the Apostle; For when that Law was given, the Observation of it was an especial Instance of that Obedience we owed unto the first Table of the Decalogue; and the exclusion of the Works thereof from our Justification; in as much as the performance of them was part of that Moral Obedience which we owed unto God, is exclusive of all other works also. But that it is alone here intended, or that Law which could never justify any by its observation, although it was observed in due manner, is a fond Imagination, and contradictory to the express Assertion of the Apostle. And whatever is pretended to the contrary, this opinion is expressly rejected by Augustine; lib. de Spirit. & litre. cap. 8. Ne quisquam putaret hic Apostolum dixisse ea lege neminem justificari, quae in Sacramentis veteribus multa continet figurata praecepta, unde etiam est ista circumcisio ⟨p. 404⟩carnis, continuo subjungit, quam dixerit legem & addit; per legem Cognitio peccati. And to the same purpose he speaks again, Epist. 200. Non solum illa opera legis quae sunt in veteribus Sacramentis, & nunc revelato Testamento novo non observantur a Christianis, sicut est Circumcisio praeputii, & Sabbati carnalis vacatio; & a quibusdam escis abstinentia, & pecorum in Sacrificiis immolatio, & neomenia & azymum, & caetera hujusmodi, verum etiam illud quod in lege dictum est, non concupisces, quod ubique & Christianus nullus ambigit esse dicendum, non justificat hominem, nisi per fidem Jesu Christi, & gratiam Dei per Jesum Christum dominum nostrum.

Neither yet do I say that the Ceremonial Law and the Works of it are excluded from the Intention of the Apostle; For when that Law was given, the Observation of it was an especial Instance of that Obedience we owed unto the first Table of the Decalogue; and the exclusion of the Works thereof from our Justification; in as much as the performance of them was part of that Moral Obedience which we owed unto God, is exclusive of all other works also. But that it is alone here intended, or that Law which could never justifie any by its observation, although it was observed in due manner, is a fond Imagination, and contradictory to the express Assertion of the Apostle. And whatever is pretended to the contrary, this opinion is expresly rejected by Augustine; lib. de Spirit. & liter. cap. 8. Ne quisquam putaret hic Apostolum dixisse ea lege neminem justificari, quae in Sacramentis veteribus multa continet figurata praecepta, unde etiam est ista circumcisio