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

But it is not the Authority of this Great Man which solely prevails with me; the Design and Scope of the Apostle in this second Chapter of his Epistle to the Galatians, hath the greatest Force to persuade me, that by the Law which made him dead to the Law of Works, he intends the sincere and unmuddied Doctrine of free Justification by Christ's Righteousness alone. His Design is plainly to refute an Error prevailing among the Galatians; who tho professing the Gospel, and to be justified by Faith in Christ, yet would make this Gospel to be a new Law, exacting Works as necessary to Justification. He answerably disclaims every Law of Works, whether the old Jewish, or that new Evangelical One so lately invented among these Christians, and made to look with the polished and smooth Face of the Gospel. He excludes the Observances of any Duties, or any Act of Obedience, from having an Interest in our Justification, assigning the whole Business of it to Faith alone; ver. 16. Knowing that a Man is not justified by the Works of the Law, but by the ⟨p. 19⟩Faith of Jesus Christ: even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the Faith of Christ, and not by the Works of the Law; for by the Works of the Law shall no Flesh be justified. It is thus he demonstrates this Proposition, [That we are not justified by the Works of any Law] That they who were Jews, to whom the Law was more especially given, yet they having been instructed by the Doctrine of Grace, that they could not be justified by Obedience to the Law; and having by the Gospel, which brings in a better Righteousness, been convinced of the Defects of their own; and therefore knowing that God had not appointed any Law whereby he would justify a Sinner, they answerably had believed on Christ, that so according to the Doctrine of the Gospel they might be justified by his Righteousness alone. This is undoubted that we must be justified by some Righteousness or other; not by our own, for then Justification would be by the Works of a Law; and so our Faith in another's Righteousness would be insignificant, and to little or no purpose: For why should we entirely trust in another Person, for that which we could so well accomplish our selves? If then not our own, it must be Christ's Righteousness only that can have this desired Effect;

But it is not the Authority of this Great Man which solely prevails with me; the Design and Scope of the Apostle in this second Chapter of his Epistle to the Galatians, hath the greatest Force to perswade me, that by the Law which made him dead to the Law of Works, he intends the sincere and unmuddied Doctrine of free Justification by Christ's Righteousness alone. His Design is plainly to refute an Error prevailing among the Galatians; who tho professing the Gospel, and to be justified by Faith in Christ, yet would make this Gospel to be a new Law, exacting Works as necessary to Justification. He answerably disclaims every Law of Works, whether the old Jewish, or that new Evangelical One so lately invented among these Christians, and made to look with the polish'd and smooth Face of the Gospel. He excludes the Observances of any Duties, or any Act of Obedience, from having an Interest in our Justification, assigning the whole Business of it to Faith alone; ver. 16. Knowing that a Man is not justified by the Works of the Law, but by the