Peter Martyr Vermigli on Anabaptists and the law-gospel distinction

[Reformed Covenanter]

Wherefore John Baptist declaring the office of Christ, when he shewed him with his finger, said: Behold the lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world. These things make against the Anabaptists, which make the Gospel to be nothing but good works, and a most absolute conversation.

These men know not the chief and principal benefit of Christ, neither make they any difference between the law and the Gospel. The law in deed commandeth: but the Gospel ministreth strengths to accomplish those things which are commanded. The law accused the: The Gospel absolveth: The law maketh a sound outwardly: The Gospel is graven in the bowels: The law worketh anger: The Gospel maketh God pacified, and reconciled unto us: The law by making afeard, dejecteth the mind: The Gospel by comforting, erecteth it: The law is the ministry of death: The gospel, of life: The law, is a schoolmaster: The gospel, is a perfect instruction: The whole law consisteth in this, that we should work: ...

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