The child's portion

1. From the servitude of the Law; not from the regulating power of it: for it still remains to be the directory of the People of God in their whole course, and hath the strongest tie to obedience that can be from the Gospel, Joh. 14.15. If ye love me keep my Commandment; nay, whatsoever flesh may plead to the contrary, it is certain that so to be loosed from the Law, were not a privilege but a misery: but it is a freedom from slavish subjection to the Law. i. e.

1. From the servitude of the Law; not from the regulating power of it: for it still remains to be the directory of the People of God in their whole course, and hath the strongest tye to obedience that can be from the Gospel, Joh. 14.15. If ye love me keep my Commandment; nay, whatsoever flesh may plead to the contrary, it is certain that so to be losed from the Law, were not a priviledge but a misery: but it is a freedome from slavish subjection to the Law. i. e.

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,