An answer to the discourse of Mr. William Sherlock, touching the knowledge of Christ,…

And sacrifices of a broken spirit, Psal. 50.17. They understood, that the heart, the truth in the inward parts, was more than all the rest: On the other hand, the unregenerate under the New Testament, they are in the flesh; the motions of sin carry all before them; they have nothing of internal ⟨p. 383⟩Righteousness, they are uncircumcised in heart, as well as in flesh; they are baptized, yet want the [Greek or Hebrew], of regeneration; they are irritated by the Law, their inward malignity swells and rises against the holy commands which stand in Scripture as so many dams and bars to their impetuous lusts: Whatever they do in Evangelical Ordinances, they do all in the oldness of the Letter, the Letter, the outward Rule presses them to Duty; but there is no inward acting of Faith, no suavity of Love or holy Affections; all is done in a dead, dull, flat manner, nothing is minded but the opus operatum, the mere external work. By this we see clearly where the difference lies: Its true, the Ceremonials of Moses were abrogated by Christ, but, I suppose, the Moral Law was not, its own intrinsical Rectitude and Righteousness immortalizes it so, that it stands faster than the Pillars of Heaven and Earth, and must be so as long as God is God, and Man Man: The Reason of Man must be bound in duty to point to God as the Primum Verum, and the Will of Man to resign to him as the Primum Amabile: these are Foundations never to be shaken: The ⟨p. 384⟩[Greek or Hebrew], of the Law amounts to so much more than the inherent Righteousness of all Saints put together, that it is no were to be found, but in the perfect spotless obedience of Christ; neither can that be made ours but by imputation.

And sacrifices of a broken spirit, Psal. 50.17. They understood, that the heart, the truth in the inward parts, was more than all the rest: On the other hand, the unregenerate under the New Testament, they are in the flesh; the motions of sin carry all before them; they have nothing of internal ⟨p. 383⟩Righteousness, they are uncircumcised in heart, as well as in flesh; they are baptized, yet want the , of regeneration; they are irritated by the Law, their inward malignity swells and rises against the holy commands which stand in Scripture as so many damms and bars to their impetuous lusts: Whatever they do in Evangelical Ordinances, they do all in the oldness of the Letter, the Letter, the outward Rule presses them to Duty; but there is no inward acting of Faith, no suavity of Love or holy Affections; all is done in a dead, dull, flat manner, nothing is minded but the opus operatum, the meer external work. By this we see clearly where the difference lies: Its true, the Ceremonials of Moses were abrogated by Christ, but, I suppose, the Moral Law was not, its own intrinsecal Rectitude and Righteousness immortalizes it so, that it stands faster than the Pillars of Heaven and Earth, and must be so as long as God is God, and Man Man: The Reason of Man must be bound in duty to point to God as the Primum Verum, and the Will of Man to resign to him as the Primum Amabile: these are Foundations never to be shaken: The