frō the eurse of the law, he doth not meane as Protestants falsify him, that he hath discharged vs from the obserua∣tion of the law, as from a thing vnpossible; but that he inspireth fayth and affordeth grace from the Storehouse of of his merites, whereby we may keepe the law, and so eschewthe malediction, or curse of transgression which the delinquentes incurre.
9. Secondly it is opposed, Now therefore why tempt you God, to put a yoake vpon the neckes of the disciples, which neyther our Fathers, nor we haue beene able to beare? I answere, that S. Peter there calleth not the obseruation of the decalogue, but the ceremoniall law of the Iewes, a yoake insuppor∣table, because it was very hard and difficult, as S. Tho∣mas and Lyranus note, to be fulfilled. For all their precepts were, as Rabby Moyses, and Abulensis recount them, 600. or there about, amongst which were 218. that were affir∣matiue, and 365. negatiue commandements; then the obligation of them was strictly and punctually to be ob∣serued. the transgression capitall and punished with all seuerity, yet King Dauid, Zachary, Elizabeth, Moyses, Io∣sue, &c. fulfilled them: for of Iosue the Scripture gi∣ueth testimony: He accomplished all thinges; he omitted not of all the commandementes, not so much as one worde which our Lord had commanded Moyses. Now Christ hath exempted vs from that combersome yoke, from that Burthen (as S. Augustine calleth it) of innumerable Ceremonies (yet not, which Libertines pretend. from the obseruation of the decalogue) and in liew of them imposeth a light carriage, not pressing vs downe with weighty loade, but lifting vs vp, as it were with winges: A preceps of loue which is not heauy.
10. Furthermore a slaunderous reporte is spread a∣gainst vs touching the diuision of the Decalogue (which I thinke not amisse heere to insinuate, as it were by the way) that we leaue out one of the commaundments, the second as Protestants count it, of not worshiping grauen Idolls: but this is a meere cauill, for we deuide the deca∣logue with S. Augustine, branching the first Table into