difference between them, is very necessary, I will treat of them somewhat more at large. Of the law and gospel.—I have very often admonished your brotherly charity, that the whole scripture divideth itself into two parts: into the law, and the gospel. The law is that which teacheth what we must do, what the will of God requireth of us. The gospel teacheth where that is to be received, which the law commandeth. Even as if I seek to take physic, it is one art to tell what the disease is, and another
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