What opinions do oppose this doctrine of the Law?
1 The error of the Manichees, who say the Law is euill, be∣cause it worketh wrath, Rom. 4.15. whereas it doth not worke this effect properly, but through the transgression of him that breaketh it.
2 Of the Pelagians, who thought themselues to be so disposed and able by nature, as to performe it.
3 Of the Antinomi and Libertines, who thinke that Christians haue no more need of the morall Law, and that the ten comman∣demens are not to be preached in the Christian Church, be∣cause the faithfull are borne againe of the spirit.
4 Of the Pharisees who thought the fulfilling of the law to be easie & possiblec 1.1, and that some of the commaundements were great commaundements, as those which concerned more grosse sinnes, murder, adultery, periurie: some (they thought) were the least commaundements, the transgressing whereof God did not regard, as the inward affections wandring from the law of Godd 1.2. Also that error of the same Pharisees and of the Ebionites, who taught that the obseruation of the ceremoniall law, was to be ioyned with the Gospell.
5 Of the Papists, who affirme that perfect obedience to the law may be performed by a regenerate man (pro statu viatoris) as he is in the estate of a pilgrime, & that the scripture doth ascribe to the godly diuers & seuerall works, whereof some are good, and such as satisfie the law, some euill and resisting the law, & that the law doth not require of men any more perfect obedience then that which may be performed in this life: yea moreouer, that a man may doe more then he ought, if he will, which workes they call Workes of supererogation, and that therefore men become iust be∣fore God through the obseruation of the law, and doe deserue by it eternall life.