Chapter 23

Q. What sort of doing the Law requires?

The Scripture is clear, that consummate, and continued in doing to the end is required by the Law. Paul interpreting Moses (Deuteronomy 26:27; Galatians 3:10): Cursed be every one, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 who does not continue in all that are written in the Law to do them. (Deuteronomy 26:27) Cursed is he who shall not confirm. It is a word they use in enacting of Laws, when we say, Be it enacted and ordained: the word in Piel is three times in the Book of Esther, to ordain by a Law. Which clearly says that the Covenant of Works was a work of justice and such a time God set to Adam, so as to the end he was to run it out, but how long he was a viator or traveler in his course of obedience no man knows.