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

Lorimer no more than what seems most to the Purpose. I will not at all affect Niceties, or subtle Evasions; and indeed any Opinion which needs them, and I know not how many perplexing Distinctions to maintain it, may very well be suspected: for Truth never seeks Corners to hide in, nor can endure to be set in a false Light, but loves to appear in its pure native Brightness. And it is our Duty, who by Office and Commission, as Ministers of Christ, are to teach the Gospel to the People, that we do not scatter Mists about them, as if throwing Dust in their Eyes was the way to clear their Sight; that we do not amuse them with new Terms fetched from the Civil Law, and make it necessary for them to study Justinian, Bartolus, and Cujacius; to read the Pandects and the Codes, that they may know how they are justified. This, instead of instructing, would be to confound those whom we are to lead into the Truth, by the clearest Expressions of God's Holy Word, and to inform them in the plainest manner that we can.

Lorimer no more than what seems most to the Purpose. I will not at all affect Niceties, or subtile Evasions; and indeed any Opinion which needs them, and I know not how many perplexing Distinctions to maintain it, may very well be suspected: for Truth never seeks Corners to hide in, nor can endure to be set in a false Light, but loves to appear in its pure native Brightness. And it is our Duty, who by Office and Commission, as Ministers of Christ, are to teach the Gospel to the People, that we do not scatter Mists about them, as if throwing Dust in their Eyes was the way to clear their Sight; that we do not amuse them with new Terms fetch'd from the Civil Law, and make it necessary for them to study Justinian, Bartolus, and Cujacius; to read the Pandects and the Codes, that they may know how they are justified. This, instead of instructing, would be to confound those whom we are to lead into the Truth, by the clearest Expressions of God's Holy Word, and to inform them in the plainest manner that we can.

What I have proposed to my self to debate in the present Discourse, is, Whether the Gospel be a new Law? Without multiplying words, which doth but obscure the clearness of Things, the Question in dispute is not, Whether the Gospel be a new Law, if by that Word is meant a Doctrine of Grace newly revealed, after the Covenant of Works was broken, wherein God hath declared in what Order and Manner he will save guilty condemned Sinners. If by a new Law no more is meant than this, it is presently granted, and the Controversy is at an end. What