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

Chrysostom also, who calls the Gospel a Law very often, and particularly in his Sermon on Gal. 2. 19. which I have before cited, if we may think (as we ought to do of the greatest Preacher in the Primitive Church) that he speaks consistently with himself, means no more by this Phrase than a Doctrine of Grace: For when in his Sermon on Psal. 49. he draws the dividing Lines between the Law of Works and the Gospel, he in these Words gives his Judgment,^d That the Law of Works was the Rudiments of Children, and an Introduction, and also the Ministry of Condemnation and Death: But this (says he, speaking of the Gospel) is Grace and Peace. There is nothing can be more plain than his meaning, that the Law requiring Works, denounced nothing but Death to a Sinner unable to perform them; but the Gospel, as a Doctrine of Grace, relieved him, by proclaiming Peace.

Chrysostom also, who calls the Gospel a Law very often, and particularly in his Sermon on Gal. 2. 19. which I have before cited, if we may think (as we ought to do of the greatest Preacher in the Primitive Church) that he speaks consistently with himself, means no more by this Phrase than a Doctrine of Grace: For when in his Sermon on Psal. 49. he draws the dividing Lines between the Law of Works and the Gospel, he in these Words gives his Judgment,^d That the Law of Works was the Rudiments of Children, and an Introduction, and also the Ministry of Condemnation and Death: But this (says he, speaking of the Gospel) is Grace and Peace. There is nothing can be more plain than his meaning, that the Law requiring Works, denounc'd nothing but Death to a Sinner unable to perform them; but the Gospel, as a Doctrine of Grace, reliev'd him, by proclaiming Peace.

1. d[Greek or Hebrew]. Chrysost. in Psal. 49