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

All those treacherous Hopes which he reposed before in his Obedience to the Law, in the severe Observance of its Precepts, and strict Performances of Duties, are utterly extinguished; and all the Sparks of them being quite dead, do not scatter any longer the least Glimmerings in his Soul. Thus the Law, or Doctrine of the Gospel, teaching him, how that Christ his Surety being made under the Law for him, hath redeemed him from its Curse, answered all its Demands, and silenced every Accusation, hath stopped its Mouth, and taken away its Strength; and not only so, but deprived it of Life as well as Voice: the Apostle's Mind being thus illuminated with the Light of his new Law, or Heavenly Doctrine, to know more than ever he did before, that Christ hath slain the Law as it is a Covenant of Works, as well as the Enmity which Sin had caused between God and miserable Sinners; he accordingly looks on the Law as a dead Thing, which can neither hurt in respect to Condemnation, nor do him any good as to Salvation and Life. He answerably regards it with other Eyes than before; and his former Zeal and Affection he had to it for the Purposes of Justification, are not only abated, but extirpated out of his Heart; not merely cooled and damped, but perfectly quenched and dead.

All those treacherous Hopes which he repos'd before in his Obedience to the Law, in the severe Observance of its Precepts, and strict Performances of Duties, are utterly extinguished; and all the Sparks of them being quite dead, do not scatter any longer the least Glimmerings in his Soul. Thus the Law, or Doctrine of the Gospel, teaching him, how that Christ his Surety being made under the Law for him, hath redeem'd him from its Curse, answered all its Demands, and silenced every Accusation, hath stopp'd its Mouth, and taken away its Strength; and not only so, but depriv'd it of Life as well as Voice: the Apostle's Mind being thus illuminated with the Light of his new Law, or Heavenly Doctrine, to know more than ever he did before, that Christ hath slain the Law as it is a Covenant of Works, as well as the Enmity which Sin had caused between God and miserable Sinners; he accordingly looks on the Law as a dead Thing, which can neither hurt in respect to Condemnation, nor do him any good as to Salvation and Life. He answerably regards it with other Eyes than before; and his former Zeal and Affection he had to it for the Purposes of Justification, are not only abated, but extirpated out of his Heart; not meerly cool'd and damp'd, but perfectly quench'd and dead.