We know, that whatsoeuer thyng the lawe sayeth, it sayeth it to them, whiche are vnder the lawe, that all mouthes may be stopped, & that all the worlde may be subdued to God, because that by the dedes of the law, there shal no fleshe be iustified in his sight For by the lawe cummeth the knowledge of synne.
Nor can we now cauel & say, that suche sayinges touche not, ne belong to the Iewes, synce that whatsoeuer the lawe sayeth, the same properly appertaineth vnto suche, as the same was geuen vnto, and are therfore to the same more bounden. All whiche was of God for none other pur∣pose done, but generally to stoppe euerye mannes mouthe from proude* 1.1 auauncyng of them selues: & eftsones to declare, that the whole worlde was endaungered to God, synce that, no not Moses lawe carnally kept, was able to make any man righteous and innocent in the sight of God, without whose commendacion among men to be accoumpted for righte¦ous is but a vaine trifle. But here wyll some one say, if men by kepyng of the law become not righteous, what good doeth it? Certainly to this end auailed the lawe, that by it eche man knewe his faulte. And surely to∣warde the recouery of health no smal furtheraunce is it, if a man knowe his owne disease.