The law unsealed

the Royal Law, binding u•to the Obedience of God our King; the Law which Jesus Christ came not to destroy but to fulfil: whereof he is the end for Righteousness to every on that believeth; which doth as a School master lead to Him (by discovering the holy nature & will of God, and mens duty to walk conformly to it, by convincing of the most sinful pollution of our nature, heart, and life, of universal disconformity to it, and innumerable transgressions of it, of the obligation to the wrath and curse of God because of the same, of u••er inability to keep it and to help our selves out of this sinful and wrathful estate; by humbling under the conviction and sense of both, by putting on to the Renunciation of self-righteousness or righteousness according to this Law; And finally by convincing of the absolute and indi•••nsable necessity of an other righteousness, and so of this imputed righteousness); the law that is so very necessary to all men in common, and to every Regenerate and unregenerate man in particular; from which, •re one jot or title can pass unfulfilled, Heaven and Earth must pass▪ and which the Prince of Pastors, infinitely skilful to pitch pertinent subjects of Preaching, amongst many others made choice of, to be a main subject of that solemn Sermon of his on the Mount; wherein he did not, as many would •ave expected▪ soar aloft in abstruse contemplations, but graciously stooped and condescended to our c••••ity for catching of us, by a plain familiar and practical exposition of the Commands (as indeed Religion lieth not in high flown notions and curious speculations, nor in great swellings of words, but in the single and sedulous practise of these things that are generally looked on […] low and common, as the great art of Preaching lieth in the powerful pressing thereof) infin••ting of how much moment the right uuderstanding of them is, and how much Religion ly••• in the serious study of suitable obedience thereto, not in order to justification, but for glorifying ⟨image 8⟩