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CHAP. III.
DIALOGVE I.
Verse 1, 2.1. What is the preferment of the Iew, or what is the profit of Circumcision? 2. Much euery way because vnto them of trust, was committed the Oracles of God.
IN few wordes lay downe the sum and order of this third Chapter.
The Apostle stil goeth on, to proue the Iewes to be guilty thorough sinne, of Gods wrath; that whatsoeuer preroga∣tiues they had on Gods part to grace them, yet because of their vnbeliefe and other transgressions, they were no more iust before God then the sinfull Gentiles, as he confirmeth by sundry authorities diuine, out of the Pro∣phets and Psalmes; whereuppon hee inferreth, that by the workes of the Law, none be iustified in the sight of God; and so at last concludeth demonstratiuely the maine and principall proposition of this Epistle, that all elect sinners, bee they Iewes or Gentiles, are iustified without the workes of the Law, by the faith of Christ. Touching the generall parts of this Chapter, they bee these three. First, is a confutation of diuers cauils and calumnious Obiections, which the Iewes might mooue on their owne behalfe, out of such thinges as Paul had written, vntill verse 9. The second, from the 9. Verse, vnto the 21. wherein he both propoundeth & proueth the quality both of Iew and Gentiles, in the case of sin