9. Does not God, then, do injustice to man by requiring of him in His Law that which he cannot perform.

No, for God so made man that he could perform it 1) but man, through the instigation of the devil, by willful disobedience deprived himself and all his descendants of this power. 2)

1) And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Eph. 4:24.

2) Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. Rom. 5:12.

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