The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London /

Thirdly, you may see by this, how that vain plea of carnal hearts comes to nothing; what will you trust now to your good meanings, good desires, and good intentions? and you will mourn and grieve, because you are no better; and you will do what you can for God: tis true, these are good things but are these the things you rest in for standing before God? if they be, certainly you know not the terms you stand in to God, nor what your bondage is.

Thirdly, you may see by this, how that vaine plea of carnal hearts comes to nothing; what will you trust now to your good meanings, good desires, and good intentions? and you will mourne and grieve, because you are no better; and you will doe what you can for God: tis true, these are good things but are these the things you rest in for standing before God? if they be, certainly you know not the termes you stand in to God, nor what your bondage is.

Fourthly, if God reveals himself to a man only by the law, it is impossible but the soul of that man must fly off from him and look upon God and his law as enemies to him, unless it were revealed together with the Gospel. Which is that I am now to tell you of, even that liberty we have by the Gospel.

Fourthly, if God reveales himself to a man only by the law, it is impossible but the soul of that man must flye off from him and look upon God and his law as enemies to him, unlesse it were revealed together with the Gospel. Which is that I am now to tell you of, even that liberty we have by the Gospel.

Therefore then for the liberty of the Gospel, it is a precious liberty, wherein the treasury of the mystery of grace is laid up: it is the only ground of support to our souls; and Saint Paul that was the great instrument of God in opening the doctrine of the liberty of the Gospel, sets it down in all his Epistles; and in many places elegantly: and in one Text wherein is some difficulty, In