The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

2. Upon this complete Justification, Believers are obliged unto universal Obedience unto God. The Law is not abolished but established by Faith. It is neither abrogated nor dispensed withal by such an Interpretation as should take off its obligation in any thing that it requires, nor as to the degree and manner wherein it requires it. Nor is it possible it should be so. For it is nothing but the Rule of that Obedience which the nature of God and man make necessary from the one to the other. And that is an Antinomianism of the worst sort, and most derogatory unto the Law of God, which affirms it to be divested of its power, to oblige unto perfect Obedience, so as that what it is not so, shall (as it were in despite of the Law) be accepted as if it were so, unto the End for which the Law requires it. There is no medium, but that either the Law is utterly abolished, and so there is no sin, for where there is no Law there is no Transgression; or it must be allowed to require the same Obedience that it ⟨p. 202⟩did at its first Institution; and unto the same degree. Neither is it in the power of any man living to keep his Conscience from judging and condemning that, whatever it be, wherein he is convinced that he comes short of the perfection of the Law. Wherefore,

2. Upon this compleat Justification, Believers are obliged unto universal Obedience unto God. The Law is not abolished but established by Faith. It is neither abrogated nor dispensed withall by such an Interpretation as should take off its obligation in any thing that it requires, nor as to the degree and manner wherein it requires it. Nor is it possible it should be so. For it is nothing but the Rule of that Obedience which the nature of God and man make necessary from the one to the other. And that is an Antinomianism of the worst sort, and most derogatory unto the Law of God, which affirms it to be divested of its power, to oblige unto perfect Obedience, so as that what it is not so, shall (as it were in despight of the Law) be accepted as if it were so, unto the End for which the Law requires it. There is no medium, but that either the Law is utterly abolished, and so there is no sin, for where there is no Law there is no Transgression; or it must be allowed to require the same Obedience that it ⟨p. 202⟩did at its first Institution; and unto the same degree. Neither is it in the power of any man living to keep his Conscience from judging and condemning that, whatever it be, wherein he is convinced that he comes short of the perfection of the Law. Wherefore,