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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, Rom. 3. 20.

2. From any dependance 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, Rom. 3. 20.

3. From servile Obedience to the Law: their service is now a service of love; for faith worketh by love: before this, he had the workings and stirrings of his Conscience, which by amazing terrors, and dismal frights, drave him to the performance of known duty, and restrained him from the commission of many erroneous sins; but all this was against his will, and glad ⟨p. 25⟩