Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

Lastly, which follows from thence, the law is still an authoritative rule for our conversation, to order our conversation; that the scripture is as clear in, as in any one truth that is in the book of God, it is indeed a point, that were it not for a strange kind of wantonness that hath possest the spirits of some, it were never needful to spend one quarter, or minute of an hour upon it. That place in James 2.8. and so on, If you fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self, ye do well; Ye do well in that. Now that, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self, is the sum of the second table of the ten commandments, and it is called the royal law, the law of the great King, But if you have respect to persons you commit sin, that is, you offend against this law, and are convinced of the Law as transgressors. The law convinceth you as transgressors, for whosoever shall keep the whole Law, and yet offend in one point ⟨p. 231⟩is guilty of all. For he that said, thou shalt not commit adultery, said also thou shalt not kill: now where are these commandments, but in the ten commandments? Do not commit adultery, do not kill: now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art a transgressor of the law, of those ten commandments.

Lastly, which follows from thence, the law is stil an authoritative rule for our conversation, to order our conversation; that the scripture is as cleer in, as in any one truth that is in the book of God, it is indeed a point, that were it not for a strang kind of wantonness that hath possest the spirits of some, it were never needful to spend one quarter, or minuite of an houre upon it. That place in James 2.8. and so on, If you fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self, ye do wel; Ye do wel in that. Now that, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self, is the sum of the second table of the ten commandements, and it is called the royal law, the law of the great King, But if you have respect to persons you comit sin, that is, you offend against this law, and are convinced of the Law as transgressors. The law convinceth you as transgressors, for whosoever shal keep the whol Law, and yet offend in one point ⟨p. 231⟩