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

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⟩he would have been, might he but have enjoyed some relaxation, but now the case is altered: and he takes delight in the Law of God, and it is a great pleasure to him to be found exercising of himself therein, Psal. 1. 2.

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 erronious sins; but all this was against his will, and glad ⟨p. 25⟩he would have been, might he but have enjoyed some relaxation, but now the case is altered: and he takes delight in the Law of God, and it is a great pleasure to him to be found exercising of himself therein, Psal. 1. 2.

2. From sin, Rom. 6. 7. For he that is dead is freed▪ from sin: Hence that 1 John 3. 9. Whatsoever is born of God doth not commit sin, not but that there are the remainders of active and stirring corruption to be found in the best of Gods Children as long as they bear about with them a body of Death; and hence Paul's so earnest complaints,