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

and knowing this by the Law or Doctrine of the Gospel, we have (says the Apostle) for this very purpose believed on Jesus. This, without any Shuffles or intricate Windings, is the plain Sense of this 16th Verse. And among other Causes which mortified in him, and the other Believers, any Inclinations to seek Justification by the Law, Pareus numbers the Doctrine of the Gospel, as that which had the strongest and most efficacious Influence^a. It is now then very agreeably, that the Apostle says of himself, That this Law or Doctrine of Grace had made him dead to the Law of Works, but alive unto God. What is it to be dead to the Law? To renounce it in the Matter of our Justification, to be freed from its galling Yoke of Servitude and Bondage, whereby it keeps guilty unbelieving Sinners perpetually under the Tortures of slavish Fears and amazing Terrors. To be dead to the Law, is to disclaim our Justification by Works of our own, and not to trust in any Obedience which we can perform to it; and being convinced that it condemns and dooms us to Death, not to seek Life by it any more, and no longer to have the least Commerce with it in the Affairs of our Justification: or to be dead to the Law, is no more to be obnoxious to its condemning Sentence, in that it cannot exact from thee its threatened Punishments; tho indeed as a Rule of Duty it always unalterably requires Obedience. To be dead to the Law, is no longer to be under its Dominion and Reign, as it is a Covenant of Works. Thus a King hath no Authority over a Subject, whom Death hath transported out of his Territories into the Regions of another World; nor can the Power of the Greatest reach ⟨p. 20⟩beyond the Confines of the Grave. In all these Meanings the Apostle asserts himself to be dead to the Law: And what was it made him so? What! but the Law or Doctrine of Grace revealed in the Gospel, which so happily instructed him in the knowledge of free and complete Justification by Christ. This Sun no sooner riseth, but all those little wandering Stars, which as false Lights had before so wretchedly misled him, do set presently; and all his natural and rooted Inclinations, to seek Justification by the Works of the Law, lessen, and at last wholly vanish and disappear at the glorious Appearance of the Sun of Righteousness, who comes with healing in his Wings.

and knowing this by the Law or Doctrine of the Gospel, we have (says the Apostle) for this very purpose believ'd on Jesus. This, without any Shuffles or intricate Windings, is the plain Sense of this 16th Verse. And among other Causes which mortified in him, and the other Believers, any Inclinations to seek Justification by the Law, Pareus numbers the Doctrine of the Gospel, as that which had the strongest and most efficacious Influence