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And further, how can the Apostle's Description that he here gives from Moses, of this exploded Way of Justification by the Works of the Law, consist with the Arminian Scheme of a Way of Justification by the Virtue of a sincere Obedience, that still remains as the true and only Way of Justification, under the Gospel. 'Tis most apparent that 'tis the design of the Apostle to give a Description of both the legal rejected, and the evangelical valid Ways of Justification, in that wherein they differ, or are distinguished the one from the other: But how is that, that he that doth those Things shall live in them, that wherein the Way of Justification by the Works of the Law, differs, or is distinguished from that in which Christians under the Gospel are justified, according to their Scheme; for still, according to them, it may be said, in the same Manner, of the Precepts of the Gospel, he that doth these Things shall live in them: The difference lies only in the Things to be done, but not at all, in that that the doing of them is not the Condition of living in them, just in the one Case, as in the other. The Words, He that doth them shall live in them, will serve just as well for a Description of the latter as the former.—By the Apostle's saying, the Righteousness of the Law is described thus, he that doth these Things shall live in them, but the Righteousness of Faith, faith thus, plainly intimates that the Righteousness of Faith faith otherwise, and in an opposite manner.—But besides, if these Words cited from Moses, are actually said by him of the moral Law as well as ceremonial, as 'tis most evident they are, it renders it still more absurd to suppose them mentioned by the Apostle, as the very Note of Distinction between Justification by a ceremonial Obedience, and a moral sincere Obedience, as the Arminians must suppose.

And further, how can the Apostle's Description that he here gives from Moses, of this exploded Way of Justification by the Works of the Law, consist with the Arminian Scheme of a Way of Justification by the Vertue of a sincere Obedience, that still remains as the true and only Way of Justification, under the Gospel. 'Tis most apparent that 'tis the design of the Apostle to give a Description of both the legal rejected, and the evangelical valid Ways of Justification, in that wherein they differ, or are distinguished the one from the other: But how is that, that he that doth those Things shall live in them, that wherein the Way of Justification by the Works of the Law, differs, or is distinguished from that in which Christians under the Gospel are justified, according to their Scheme; for still, according to them, it may be said, in the same Manner, of the Precepts of the Gospel, he that doth these Things shall live in them: The difference lies only in the Things to be done, but not at all, in that that the doing of them is not the Condition of living in them, just in the one Case, as in the other. The Words, He that doth them shall live in them, will serve just as well for a Description of the latter as the former.—By the Apostle's saying, the Righteousness of the Law is described thus, he that doth these Things shall live in them, but the Righteousness of Faith, faith thus, plainly intimates that the Righteousness of Faith faith otherwise, and in an opposite manner.—But besides, if these Words cited from Moses, are actually said by him of the moral Law as well as ceremonial, as 'tis most evident they are, it renders it still more absurd to suppose them mentioned by the Apostle, as the very Note of Distinction between Justification by a ceremonial Obedience, and a moral sincere Obedience, as the Arminians must suppose.