Influences of the life of grace

There must be in this point, considerable differences between the Covenants;¹ as 1. God intended that no man should be saved by the Law: for grace, mercy, forbearance, and the patience of God towards sinners sold for eternity, have been hid from sinful man, if righteousness and life had been by the Law. But God intended that all men to ⟨p. 2⟩be saved, should be saved by the Covenant of grace, 1 Cor. 1. 21. Rom. 3. 21, 22. as Rom. 10. 5, 6, 7. compared with Rom. 3. 9, 10, & 20. Gal. 3. 8, 9, 10. as both the Scripture and the issue of two dispensations, of Law and Gospel, do evidence. 2. Man in the covenant of works was under no tutor but Adams free will; but now man as an interdicted heir, for former wasteries, is disinherited, so that he hath not the mastery of his own estate, is put under another Lord, even Jesus Christ, as his tutor; and since it is so, the less our own, the better; the more we are under the law, the less we are under grace, as Rom. 7. the less freedom (or rather physical licence) to sin, the more true liberty, Psal. 119. 45. I will walk at liberty, for I seek thy precepts. Christ by his covenant layeth the aw of grace upon us; whether grace be taken physically, for an inward principle of grace; or morally, for a gracious fear to sin,² its all one; the more under Christ any is, the less is he free to sin; as the better and stronger the keeper is, who is put upon a broken man and a prisoner, who is a bankrupt, the less can he take on new debt, Rom. 6. 20, 22