Matthew(i)
17 Thys I saye, that the lawe which beganne afterward beyonde: .iiij.C. and .xxx. yeares doth not disanull the testament, that was confyrmed afore of God vnto Christe warde, to make the promes of none effecte.
18 For yf the inherytaunce come of the lawe, it commeth not of promes. But God gaue it vnto Abraham by promes
19 Wherfore then serueth the lawe? The law was added because of transgressyon (tyll the sede came to whiche the promes was made) & it was ordeyned by angels in the hande of a mediator,
20 he is not a mediator of one. But God is one.
21 Is the lawe then agaynst the promes of God? God forbyd. Howbeit yf there had bene a lawe geuen whiche could haue geuen lyfe: then no doubt ryghteousnes should haue come by the lawe.
22 But the scrypture concluded all thynges vnder synne that the promes by the fayth of Iesus Christe shoulde be geuen vnto them that beleue.
23 Before that fayth came, we were kept and shut vp vnder the lawe, to the fayth which shuld afterward be declared.
24 Wherfore the lawe was our scholemaster to the tyme of Christ, that we might be made ryghtuouse by fayth.