been in your heart, he would have spoken by you, which he has not; for this harangue is not the Shepherd's voice. We know it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaketh.

I read that sinners are drawn to Christ by the Father; and that he who cometh, cometh by faith; for the scriptures assert that " he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek him." But the law is not of faith, but of works; it neither gives faith nor love, which are the things that bring us to God, and unite us to him, and the things that accompany salvation.

What you mean by the law's bringing a sinner to Jesus Christ remotely I know not, nor you neither. As the law arms justice with a flaming sword, and that sword keeps the way of the tree of life, it must keep the sinner remote, or at a distance, instead of bringing him to life. When the law was given a man was in danger of losing his life if he did but attempt to gaze, much more so if he approached; and a bound was fixed round the Mount, to keep the sinner at his distance, instead of drawing him nigh. Your talking of the law's bringing the sinner to Christ remotely, is like talking of painting white with charcoal, or enlightening a room by stopping up the windows with lime and hair. We now travel on again to another mountain, which, by God's help, I hope to make a plain, if possible.

The believer, instead of looking to the law as

⚫ brought down to him, looks to himself through 'Christ as brought to the law; so that, by the obe'dience of Christ Jesus, he renders to the law, through Christ, a perfect obedience.'

This is darkening counsel by words without knowledge; this man is filling his belly with the east wind. The believer ought to look to the law, for it was brought down to him, and home to him also, before ever he was a believer; for he has no warrant to be married to the Saviour till his first husband be dead.

And you say that the believer looks to himself, through Christ, as brought to the law. However, Paul expresses it otherwise; he found the condemning power of the law first; and when that had killed him it pleased God to reveal his Son in him, and he was brought nigh to God by the blood of Christ. But my enemy says that the believer looks to himself, through Christ, as brought to the law; so that by the obedience of Christ, he [that is, the believer] renders to the law a perfect obedience. O rare believer! James says, "In many things we. offend all." Where is his perfection then? The Saviour's obedience is perfect, but the believer's is never so. Instead of saying that the believer looks to himself, through Christ, as brought to the law, he should have said, "I, through the law, am dead to the law, that I might live unto God." crucified with Christ; nevertheless, I live," and look from myself to Jesus, as the only hope set before me. But we must set off again.

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The believer is delivered from the irritating power of the law; nor does he count the yoke of 'the Lord hard, but easy, and his burden light. And, as it has not an irritating power unto him, so no more has it a condemning authority over ' him.'

Believers are not delivered from the irritating power of the law altogether, for the law often finds them out. The best saints in the world have gone at times bound in the spirit; and, when they have lost sight of the covenant Head and a sense of their liberty, they have, like the Galatians, been again entangled with the yoke of bondage. If you, sir, are a stranger to this, the children of God are not. I say, the real believer is delivered from the commanding power of the law, as a covenant of works, to do for life; and he is delivered from the curse. of it, as the ministration of eternal death and damnation. And, if you deny this, you give God the lie; being ignorant of the letter of the law, of its killing power, and of the spiritual service of God; "For when we were in the flesh the motions of sin, which were by the law [stirred up,] did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held, that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." It is the commanding power of the law to do for life; that is the unbearable yoke. The damning power of the law is a yoke that is worn by those in hell.

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None but the devil ever sent such men as you into a pulpit, to tempt the Spirit of God, by putting a yoke upon the disciples' necks which you never felt the weight of; and, as for your life and conduct, God forbid that I should ever copy after it. I wish the next time you would preach from this text; "Forasmuch as we have heard that certain, which went out from us, have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law; to whom we gave no such commandment; it seemeth good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: that ye abstain from" worldly pollution and vanity, and cleave to Christ; "from which if ye keep yourselves ye shall do well. Fare ye well," Acts xv. 24, 28, 29. Now we go on again.

What are those sentiments that may in a par'ticular manner be styled Antinomianism? We 'begin with this idea; that whatsoever is a deviation from the moral law of God is an opposition 'to that law, whether in principle or practice, and may be considered as Antinomianism; for this 'heresy, that greatly abounds, is derived from the 'Greek word Antinomos.'

Then Mr. Ignoramus, according to dog Latin, is the Antinomos, according to the Greek; for I insist upon it that he has made void both law and gospel.

'Whatsoever is a deviation from the moral law ' is an opposition to that law, whether in principle

or practice, and may be considered as Antino'mianism.' Then you may call the whole gospel Antinomianism. The law says, "The soul that sinneth shall die." The gospel says, "He that believeth shall never die." The law says, "I will by no means clear the guilty." The gospel says, "I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed." This, sir, according to your account, is Antinomianism; for both these assertions are opposite to the law, as a covenant of works; yet they sweetly harmonize with the law, as magnified, made honourable, and placed in the heart of a Surety, " who is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth."

A man that treats the law and the gospel as you have done is an Antinomian in principle. And stealing into the church while ignorant both of God and of yourself, and slandering those that God has sent to preach his word, is Antinomianism in practice. And, as Nathan said to David, "Thou art the man."

I will not believe that any man can prove his mission or commission from God, to preach his word, until he be made a partaker of the Holy Ghost. Christ's ministers are ministers of the Spirit, not of the letter; "for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life." "All scripture is given by inspiration of God." And the Saviour sent the same Spirit of inspiration upon his apostles before he sent them out to preach his gospel to every creature. It is true, we have schools that furnish