A discourse of the true nature of the Gospel demonstrating that it is no…

Both are Promises to the Obedience of Laws, and the two Laws will be distinguished no otherwise, than that the one proves to be older than the other by many Ages. And thus the Gospel will be only the superannuated Law of Works revived, with some Abatements of its required Duties. And if this be not as utterly false as there is Truth in the Scriptures, (as I am sure there is) let all unprejudiced Men judg. And yet this absurd Confusion of Law and Gospel, is the unavoidable Consequence of this Assertion, that the Gospel promises Justification and Eternal Life to Men, on condition they perform the Obedience which it commands.

Both are Promises to the Obedience of Laws, and the two Laws will be distinguished no otherwise, than that the one proves to be older than the other by many Ages. And thus the Gospel will be only the superannuated Law of Works reviv'd, with some Abatements of its requir'd Duties. And if this be not as utterly false as there is Truth in the Scriptures, (as I am sure there is) let all unprejudic'd Men judg. And yet this absurd Confusion of Law and Gospel, is the unavoidable Consequence of this Annertion, that the Gospel promises Justification and Eternal Life to Men, on condition they perform the Obedience which it commands.

If also from this Proposition, He that believeth shall be saved, we argue that the Gospel is a new Law, promising Life upon the observance of this its Precept, it will follow, that God in the promulgation of this new Law, offers Life universally to all Men, to Tartars, Negroes, and the Savages in America; to all the Nations from Peru to Japan, on condition they obey the Command of the Gospel, and believe and repent: For if God in giving his Moral Law to all reasonable Creatures, said universally to Angels and Men, Do this, and you shall live; by the same Rule, if the Gospel is a new Law, God speaks generally to all Men, Believe, and you shall live. Now from this, two amazing Absurdities will naturally spring; the one is, that God should by this his new Law promise Pardon and Life, on condition they believe on his Son, to People who have never heard that there is such a thing as the Christian Religion in the World, nor such a Person as Christ, and to whose Ears not so much as the sound of his Name ever arrived. Doth this become the Wisdom of God to act so preposterously? How can we think that the Depths of that Knowledge, as the Apostle speaks,