If while we seeke to be made righteous by Christ, we our selues are found sinners, is Christ then the minister of sinne? God forbid.
And if after our once receiuyng the fayth of the gospel, we be neuertheles found subiecte to synne, so that we nede yet an other remedy, as muche as we had nede of beyng vnder Moses lawe, and beyng disapointed of the hope we stoode in, so that we now againe are compelled to seke vpon the lawe, that of vs was forsaken, what shal we say? shal we say that Christ, whom we beleued to be the author of perfite iustice, is the minister of vn∣righteousnes? who not onely deliuereth vs not from our olde vnrighte∣ousnes, but is also an occasion of encrease therof, and not onely geueth vnto vs not the welthy state whiche we loked for, but also causeth our cō¦demnacion to be more grieuous, forasmuche as vpō hope of him we for∣soke the lawe: whervnto if we againe be compelled to returne, we might seme not without fault & vnaduisedly to haue forgone it, of whiche fault Christ semeth the very occasion. But God forbid, that any man so iudge of Christ, or thinke that the grace of his gospel doeth lacke any perfecci∣on, so that towarde the attainement of saluacion we should nede to seeke somewhat out of Moses law.