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IT is the abolyshing of ye cursse or malediction of the lawe, done by Christe, that nowe al whiche beleue in Christe, be delyuered from the powre of the lawe euer accusynge the conscience and con∣demnynge it, for vnperfecte obe∣dience before god, Gala. iii. Christ redemed vs from the cursse of the lawe, whiles he was made accur∣ssed
for vs. And Romaines .viii.
¶ No condempnation is nowe vnto them, whiche be grafted in Iesu Christe. &c.
¶No. For Paule sayth: the lawe is ordeyned for the vniust, that is for infideles, and them which are not as yet vnder grace, or whiche haue not receyued Christe wyth fayth, nor haue not taken the ho∣ly goste, by whom they shoulde be gouerned. In these the lawe doeth as yet to thys daye no lesse exercise the powre and deutie in ac¦cusynge and condempnynge their consciences then in olde tyme vn∣der Moyses.
¶For the lawe is our schole mai∣ster vnto Christe.
i. The promises of God, for God promised that thys abrogation of the lawe shoulde be in Christ.
Hieremie .xxxi. I wyl make wyth
the house of Israell a newe bond not according vnto the couenant that I haue made wyth youre fathers.
ii. Oure infirmitye dyd gyue oc∣casion of abrogatynge the lawe. Actu. xv whiche neither our fa∣thers nor we were able to beare.
The whole lawe is abrogated vnto hym whyche beleueth, that is to say that the lawe can haue no powre of accusynge and con∣demnynge hym. For he hath an other thinge whereby he is iusti∣fied, then the lawe.
☞ I answere. The Gospell bryn¦geth spirituall and euerlastynge lyfe, therefore it kepeth that part of the lawe, which teacheth, what that newe lyfe is, and it consent∣eth wyth ye lawe of nature which is the sayde knowledge of ye tē cō∣maundementes. Wherefore the
ten commaundementes may not be so vnderstanded to be abrogat that they oughte not to be obser¦ued no more, as the other partes of the lawe, that is to saye the ce∣remonyes and the iudiciales of Moyses be abrogated, whiche be onely outwarde ordeininges and customes perteining vnto the bo¦dily lyfe.
But in them whyche be iusti∣fyed, and receyue the holie gooste is nowe a newe spirituall obedy∣ence begonne whyche is required in the ten commaundementes or morall lawe.