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Secondly, but they that hold the Covenant on Mount Sinai to have been a Covenant of grace, but only veiled under types and shadows, (as do Calvin, Bucer, Bucan, &c.) they would answer, that circumcision did bind to the keeping of the whole Law; not as it was given either to Abraham, or to Moses, but as it was urged by the false Apostles who expected justification from the observation of it. To such indeed it is truly alleged, that if they look for justification by the observation of circumcision, they are then bound to observe the whole Law. For it is not the observation of one commandment of the Law, that can justify, but the observation of the whole Law, for he that breaketh any one commandment of the Law, is guilty of all, James 2.10. Whence it is that Paul putteth the observation of circumcision (to wit, in the sense of the false Apostles) as all one with justification by the works of the Law, Gal. 5.3, 4. And thereby proveth that if the Galatians be circumcised, Christ should profit them nothing, ver. 2. they were fallen from grace, ver. 4. And yet Timothy who received circumcision, not in the sense of the false Apostles, as necessary to justification; but for other respect, to avoid offence, he did not thereby fall from Christ, or lose his profit in Christ Jesus. But to put it out of doubt that circumcision given to Abraham was a sign and seal not of the Covenant of works, but of grace, the Apostles words are evident, Rom. 4.11. Abraham (saith he) received the sign ⟨p. 42⟩of Circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of faith. Now righteousness of faith is not found in the Covenant of works, but in the Covenant of grace only. The Covenant of works holdeth forth no righteousness but by the works of the Law.

Secondly, but they that hold the Covenant on Mount Sinai to have been a Covenant of grace, but onely vailed under types and shadowes, (as doe Calvin, Bucer, Bucan, &c.) they would answer, that circumcision did bind to the keeping of the whole Law; not as it was given either to Abraham, or to Moses, but as it was urged by the false Apostles who expected justification from the observation of it. To such indeed it is truly alledged, that if they looke for justification by the observation of circumcision, they are then bound to observe the whole Law. For it is not the observation of one commandement of the Law, that can justifie, but the observation of the whole Law, for hee that breaketh any one commandement of the Law, is guilty of all,