The testimony of Davenant on the Tridentine canon
Thesis XXXII. John Davenant's remarks on actual righteousness, chapter 47, come to the same thing. Examining the Tridentine canon 'If anyone says that God's precepts are impossible to keep for a man who is justified and placed under grace, let him be anathema,' he writes: 'Notice, please, the papist craft in framing this canon.
Our opponents know that our side does not deny the regenerate a diligent keeping of the divine precepts. What we deny is the perfect and absolute keeping that satisfies the law so fully that it breaks not one jot of it, and fulfils the legal covenant so completely that by virtue of it one gains the inheritance of eternal life.
So they hurl these thunderbolts of anathema at the Protestants in vain. Protestants do not claim that the regenerate cannot keep God's precepts, for they work hard at keeping all of them. They claim that it is impossible, by keeping them, to match the law's righteousness and escape all lawlessness (ἀνομία).'
Latin
XXXII. Eodem recidunt quae habet Joannes Davenantius de justitia actuali, c. 47. Etenim excutiens canonem illum Tridentinum, Si quis dixerit Dei praecepta homini justificato, & sub gratia constituto esse ad observandum impossibilia, anathema sit. Observatis velim, inquit, in hoc Canone fabricando artem Papisticam. Norunt adversarii nostros non negare Renatis diligentem observationem praeceptorum divinorum, sed negare perfectam illam & absolutam observationem, quae legi ita cumulate satisfacit, ut nullum ejus apicem violet; quae pactum legale ita adimplet, ut ejusdem beneficio vitae aeternae haereditatem consequatur. Frustra igitur haec anathematum fulmina contra Protestantes jaculantur, qui non asserunt esse impossibile Renatis observare praecepta Dei, studiose enim in illorum omnium observatione se exercent: sed esse impossibile observando justitiam legis adaequare, & omnem ἀνομίαν effugere.