The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace

Ans. The conscience may be the factor and deputy of Satan in that also,¹ for it is the deposing of Christ from his Office of Mediator ⟨p. 259⟩in satisfying and answering by his death all the demands of the Law, there is none but Christ, when the Law demands blood and the torments of the second death, can plead any thing on the contrary. Rom. 3.19. We know that what things soever the Law speaks, it speaks to these that are under the Law: but the Law speaks not then to a believer, for he is under grace, and so is not in terms of treating or parleying with the Law. Christ was crucified and the believer is legally crucified with Christ, buried and risen again with Christ. 1. Then the Law is not his judge, it spake to Christ and condemned him and put him to death, when he was under the Law, and condemned you in him, now you say, Christ is not condemned and crucified, when ye enter in a new treaty with the Law to receive a new sentence from it, and thus ye undo what Christ hath perfectly done. 2. To hearken to conscience composing and making another paction with the Law then Christ hath made, is to take the plea that Christ hath embarked in, off his hand; ye are to stand still and be silent, and believe that Christs dying, and your dying in him, is a closing of a satisfactory bargain with the Law. Christ condemned sin in the flesh, by taking on his flesh the curse due to us for sin, & for sin, that is, for sins cause, that it might be taken away, he sent his Son to die, Rom. 8.3. and judge and condemn sin. 3. This is to misstate a question well debated and discussed by Christ; for he being the end and perfection of the Law, hath silenced, and satisfied the Law,² and to what use can it serve to make a new plea and a bastard controversy with a satisfied party, or to hearken to conscience which craves in the name of mistaken Law well payed debts, and this is but Satan abusing the Law, and feigning Letters of Caption in the name of the Law, to trouble the quieted conscience of a believer. But its safest to say, I stand to what Christ hath done and suffered to fulfil the Law, and I believe I was crucified in him, judged, and condemned legally in Christ: and what can you seek more of an ill-doer? He is condemned, crucified, hanged on a tree, and so is justice quieted. Some raise the devil and a storm in the soul and cannot calm it again: