A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects

I shall confirm this by some Reasons, because upon this Proposition depend all the following.

1. Regeneration gives not a man a dispensation from the Law of God. As Christ came not to destroy the Law, but to establish it, so grace doth not dispense with the Law, but confirms the Authority of it. Habitual grace is not given us to assist us in the breaches of it, but to enable us to the performance of it. As the grace of God which hath appeared to all ⟨p. 91⟩men teaches the Doctrine of Holiness, so the grace of God in us enables us to walk in the way of holiness. Grace in a Believer embraceth what the grace of God teaches. The Moral Laws of God are indispensable in themselves, and of eternal verity. Therefore as no rational creature, much less can a regenerate person be exempted from that obedience to the Law, which as a rational creature he is bound to observe. The grace of God justifying is never conferred without grace sanctifying: 'Tis certain, where Christ is made righteousness, he is made sanctification. 'Tis not congruous to the Divine Holiness, to look upon a person as righteous, who hath not a renewed principle in him, no more than it is congruous to the Divine Justice and Holiness, to look upon him as righteous, merely for this principle so imperfect.

1. Regeneration gives not a man a dispensation from the Law of God. As Christ came not to destroy the Law, but to establish it, so grace doth not dispense with the Law, but confirms the Authority of it. Habitual grace is not given us to assist us in the breaches of it, but to enable us to the performance of it. As the grace of God which hath appeared to all ⟨p. 91⟩men teaches the Doctrine of Holiness, so the grace of God in us enables us to walk in the way of holiness. Grace in a Believer embraceth what the grace of God teaches. The Moral Laws of God are indispensable in themselves, and of eternal verity. Therefore as no rational creature, much less can a regenerate person be exempted from that obedience to the Law, which as a rational creature he is bound to observe. The grace of God justifying is never conferred without grace sanctifying: 'Tis certain, where Christ is made righteousness, he is made sanctification. 'Tis not congruous to the Divine Holiness, to look upon a person as righteous, who hath not a renewed principle in him, no more than it is congruous to the Divine Justice and Holiness, to look upon him as righteous, meerly for this principle so imperfect.