be our righteoufnefs, if we obferve to do all these "commandments, before the Lord our God, as he

hath commanded us," Deut. vi. 25. Chrift's obedience to the Law, imputed to us, anfwers this ; By the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. This is justification from all things; and makes the believer a just man, as the Law is just.

Secondly, The Law is holy: and the foul of the faint is the feat, and his body the temple, of the Holy Ghost, which dwelleth in us, and makes the believer holy, as the Law is holy.

Thirdly, The Law requires love to God above all things elfe; and the faint of God is bleffed with the love of God, Father, Son, and Spirit, fhed abroad in his heart; and has fellowship with the Father, Son, and Spirit. He dwells in God, who is love; and God dwells in him. He is joined to the Lord, and is one fpirit with him. This anfwers the requirement of the great command.

Fourthly, The Law is fpiritual, and the Law is good. The faint of God is a spiritual man, and a good man. He is a partaker of God's good Spirit; the good treasure of grace is in him; the good word of God is in him; the good work of regeneration has paffed on his foul; and the whole perfecting work of grace is carried on, and will be compleated in him; which makes him a good man, as the Law is good,

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Lastly, The Law promifes life, but eternal life it could never give. The believer, therefore, has got what the Law could not give: "He that believeth "hath everlasting life, and fhall never come into " condemnation." If this is Antinomianifm, it is precious Antinomianifim! This is the man in whom the righteousness of the Law is fulfilled; who is redeemed from the Law, and brought to the Gofpel; redeemed from the curfe, and crowned with the bleffing; no more under the Law, but under Grace; not under wrath, but under love; no more under the schoolmafter to Mofes, but under the Law of the Spirit, to Chrift; no more a bond-fervant, but a freeborn fon; no more a stranger, but knows God, and is known of him; no more a child of the bondwoman, but of the free; no longer a foreigner, but a fellow-citizen with the faints, and of the houshold of God. Verily, I fay unto you, till heaven and earth pafs, one jot or one tittle fall in no wife pass from the Law till all be [thus] fulfilled in the elect of God. They fhall all be juftified, they fhall all be fanctified, they fhall all be made meet for the inheritance with the faints in light. Thefe are the genuine offspring of Abraham, which Sarah bears unto Abraham. Thefe do the works of Abraham, namely, the works of faith, labours of love, and patience of hope. These look to Abraham their father, and to Sarab that bare them; and keep their Father's commandment, and forfake not the law of their Mother. They

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keep their Father's commandment, which is the commandment of Life, which kept Abraham from confidering his own body dead at a hundred years old. Thefe forfake not the Law of their Mother, which is the Law of Faith; by which Sarah received ftrength to conceive feed, judging Him faithful who had promised. Through Faith they obtain witness that they are righteous; and through Faith they obtain this good report, As many as are of Faith, are bleffed with faithful Abrabam. These are they that commend not themfelves, but them whom the Lord commendeth: on whom the most high God put fuch high encomiums, reported fo good a report, and gave so glorious a teftimony, that it ftands recorded by the hand of Heaven in the eternal annals: which myfterious record, in it's genuine fenfe, will prove an everlasting task to every bond-child, every legal work-monger, every proud doer, every Uzzite, every infant of the flesh, to the world's end. It is a promise to the heirs of promise, as well as an eternal teftimony to the Father of the heirs: "I will make thy feed to multiply as the stars "of heaven, and will give unto thy feed all these "countries; and in thy feed shall all the nations of "the earth be bleffed: BECAUSE THAT ABRAHAM' "OBEYED MY VOICE, AND KEPT MY CHARGE, MY 65 COMMANDMENTS, MY STATUTES, AND MY LAWS." Gen. xxvi. 4, 5. Let those who traduce us explain Abraham's obedience to God's voice, the charge

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which he kept, together with the commandments, ftatutes, and laws, to which he was fo obedient, four hundred years before the Law was given.I come to my third particular, that the Law is,

Thirdly, Imperfectly fulfilled, in the exercise of grace, by the faint. "Owe no man any thing but "to love one another; for he that loveth another "bath fulfilled the Law, for Love is the fulfilling of "the Law." Rom. xiii. 8, 10. This fulfilling of the Law is not perfect obedience; for though the Law is perfectly fulfilled in the faint, all God's work being perfect; yet it is not perfectly fulfilled by the faint, because he hath a principle in him that lufteth to envy. However, every faint under heaven fhall be brought to love the brotherhood.

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They that "hate Zion fhall be defolate.-He that hateth his "brother is in darkness, and knoweth not whither "he goeth, becaufe that darknefs hath blinded hist

eyes. He that hateth his brother is a murderer, " and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life "abiding in him." For though "the fpirit in "man lufteth to envy," yet he fhall be purged from it, otherwife he fhall never be faved: for, as the merciless creditor, who had no compaffion on his fellow-fervant, was delivered to the tormentors, So fhall my heavenly Father do unto every one of you, if ye, from your heart, forgive not every one his brother their trefpaffes: for, "till heaven and earth pass,

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ne jot or one tittle fhall in no wife pass from the "Law [even in this fenfe] till all be fulfilled."

Fourthly,

Fourthly, The penal part of the Law fhall be effectually and eternally fulfilled in the damnation of the wicked. The Law, which is fpiritual, and reaches to the actions of body and foul, shall then appear as a fiery Law. The works of the flesh, and their heart-fins, fhall both be punished; the body in unconfuming and unconfumed brimftone, and the foul in unquenchable wrath. Their little fins, as they are often called, shall appear infinite, and not a jot or tittle of the Law fail in the discharge of it's dreadful artillery: I will spend my arrows upon them, Deut. xxxii. 23. Every plague, every threatening, every curse, and every fentence, fhall be righteoufly, justly, and fully executed.I was obedient unto death, to redeem mine elect; and they fhall be fubject to eternal death, that die in their fins. The gulph fixed on them fhall never be moved; the fentence shall never be recalled; their worm fhall never die, their fire fhall never be quenched. The fmoke of their torments fhall ever afcend. Yea, the third heaven, the refidence of God himfelf, fball as foon pass away, as a jot or tittle of the Law can fail curfing them that die under it. The third heaven fhall never be moved; and out of utter darkness the criminal shall never come, till he has paid the utmost mite; which mite is obedience to the jot or tittle of the Law. But fuffering the fentence can never be beying the precept; therefore there can be no coming out thence: for not a jot or tittle fhall in any

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