The child's portion, or, The unseen glory of the children of God asserted and…

1. From the servitude of the Law, or condemning ⟨p. 24⟩power of it: from the thundering curses of it, Gal. 3. 13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law. The Law hath doomed all its offenders to eternal death, and by the sentence of it they are held under guilt: but Gods Adopted are set at liberty from this doom: it speaks nothing that needs to appal them; there is no spirit of bondage in it to them: they are not under the law as a Judge, but only as a Guide, a Light, and a Lamp.

1. From the servitude of the Law, or condemning ⟨p. 24⟩power of it: from the thundring curses of it, Gal. 3. 13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law. The Law hath doomed all its offenders to eternal death, and by the sentence of it they are held under guilt: but Gods Adopted are set at liberty from this doom: it speaks nothing that needs to appall them; there is no spirit of bondage in it to them: they are not under the law as a Judge, but only as a Guid, a Light, and a Lamp.

2. From any dependence upon the Law for happiness in a way of works or doings, Rom. 3. 28. We conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the Law. This is a miserable bondage to fallen man, thus to depend upon the Law: Because it presents those that are under it every day with that which may assure them, th•• after all their labour and pains taken in legal obedience, they shall certainly lose all, and finally fall short of Blessedness: for, by the deeds of the Law shall no flesh be justified, for by the Law is the knowledge of sin,