The law can never fave us now,

To damn is all that it can do..
Heav'n cafts all righteoufnefs of ours,
The law of works is out of doors.
No merit, money, more or lefs,
Can buy the gift of righteoufnefs.
O may I take what Heav'n does give :
JEHOVAH, help me to believe;
And in that righteousness to trust,
Which only makes a finner juft.
And then, the truth of faith to prove,
Lord, make my faith to work by love.

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The BELIEVER'S PRINCIPLES concerning the Law and the Gospel:

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HOUGH law.commands and gofpel-grace
Agree in mutual joint embrace; I

Yet law and gospel in a fhock

Can never draw an equal yoke. 2

1 Rom. iii 31. Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid : yea, we etablish the law. Gal. iii. 21. Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

2 Pfalm cxxx. 3, 4. If thou, Lord, fhouldft mark iniquities, O Lord, who fhall ftand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayft be feared. Verfe 7, 8. Let Ifrael hope in the Lord; for, with the Lord there is mercy: and with him is plenteous redemption: and he thall redeem Ifrael from all his iniquities And cxl ii. 2. O Lord, enter not into judgment with thy fervant ; for in thy fight fhall no man living be justified. Verfe 8. Caufe me to hear thy loving-kindnefs in the morning, for in thee do I truft: caufe me to know the way wherein I fhould walk, for I lift up my foul unto thee.

The law of works, the law of grace,
Can't ftand together in one place;
The brighter fcene deftroys the dark,
As Dagon fell before the ark. I
They harmonize like marry'd pairs, 2
Yet are at odds, and keep not squares; 3
As mercy ftands from merit far,
The letter and the Spirit jar. 4
The law does gofpel-comforts harm,
The gofpel breaks the legal arm; 5
Yet both exalt each other's horn,
And garlands bring their head t' adorn. 6
I through the law am dead to it,
To legal works and felf-conceit; 7

1 Rom. vi. 14, 15. Sin fhall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. What then? fhall we fin, becaule we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Chap. vii. 4,-6. Where-fore, my brethren, ye alfo are become dead to the law by the body of Chrift; that ye fhould be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of fins which were by the law, 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 fhould ferve in newnefs of fpirit, and not in the oldnefs of the letter. 2 Cor. iii. 7,-10. But if the miniftration of death, written and ingraven in ftones, was glorious, fo that the children of Ifrael could not ftedfaftly behold the face of Mofes, for the glory of his countenance, which glory was to be done away; how fhall not the miniftration of the Spirit be rather glorious? For, if the miniltration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the miniftration of righteoufuels exceed in glory. For even that which was made glorious, had no glory in this refpect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

2 Gal iii. 24. Wherefore the la, was our fchool-mafter, to bring us unto Chrift, that we might be juftified by faith.

3 Rom. xi. 6. And if (election be) by grace, then it is no more of works; otherwife grace is no more grace; but if it be of works, then it is no more grace; otherwife work is no more work.

4 2 Cor. iii. 6. -The letter killeth; but the Spirit giveth life.

5 Heb. ii. 15. And deliver them who through fear of death were all their life-time fubject to bondage. Phil. iii. 7.-9. But what things were gain to me, thofe I counted lofs for Chrift. Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but lofs, for the excellency of the knowledge of Chrift Jefus my Lord; for whom I have fuffered the lofs of all things, and do count them but dung that I may win Chrift, and be found in him, not having mine own righteoufnels, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righte oufnefs which is of God by faith.

6 Gal ii 19. For I, through the law, am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

7 Rom. vii. 9. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should ferve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. Verfe 9. For I was alive without the law once; but when the commandment came, fin revived, and I died.

Yet, lo! through gofpel-grace I live,
And to the law due honour give. I
The law great room for boafting makes,
But grace my pride and boafting breaks; 2
Yet all my boats the law does kill, 3
And grace makes room to boat my fill. 4
The gofpel makes me keep the law; 5
Yet from its painful fervice draw: 6
It does all law-demands fulfil, 7

Yet makes them wholly void and null. 8
The gospel gives me no command, 9
Yet by obeying it I ftand. 10

To ftrict obedience though it call, 11
Does bind to none, but promife all. 12

1 Rom. vii. 4. Wherefore, my brethren, ye alfo are become dead to the law by the body of Chrift, that ye fhould me married to another, even to him who is railed from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. And x. 4 Chrift is the end of the law for rightcoufnefs to every one that

believeth.

2 Rom. iii. 27. Where is boafting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay, but by the law of faith.

3 Rom. iii. 19. Now we know that what things foever the law faith, it faith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

4 1 Cor. i. 29,-31. That no fleth should glory in his prefence. But of him are ye in Chrift Jefus, who of God is made unto us wifdom, and righteoufnefs, and fanctification, and redemption; that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

5 Tit. ii. 11, 12. For the grace of God, that bringeth falvation, hath appeared to all men; teaching us, that, denying ungodline's and worldly lufts, we should live foberly, righteously, and godly in this prefent world.

6 Gal. v. 1. Stand faft, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Chrift bath made us free, and be not intangled again with the yoke of bondage.

7 Rom. viii. 3, 4. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God fending his own Son in the likeness of tinful fleth, and for fin condemned fin in the fieih; that the righteoninels of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

8 Rom. vi. 14. Sin fhail not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. Gal. iv. 4, 5. But when the falaefs of the time was come, God fent forth his Son made of a woman, made under the law, to re-. deem them that were under the law.

9 Gal. iii. 8. And the fcripture forefeeing that God would juftify the heathen through faith, preached before the gofpel unto Abraham, faying, In thee fhail all nations be blefed.

10 Mark xvi. 16. He that believeth, and is baptized, fhall be faved.

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2 Thef. i. 7. 8. The Lord Jefus fhall be revealed from heaven, with his mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jefus Chrift.

12 John iii. 17. God fent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be faved. And xii. 47. And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not; for I came not to judge the world, but to fave the world. Heb. viii. 10,-12. For this is the

The law does ftrict commandment give,
That I the gofpel-news believe; I
But yet it teaches no fuch thing,
Nor e'er could gofpel-tidings bring. 2
When I the gofpel truth believe,
Obedience to the law I give; 3
And when I don't the law 4 obferve,
I from the gofpel-method fwerve. 5
Yet if I do the law 6 obey,

I am not in the gofpel-way, 7

Which does to fweet bedience, draw: 8

Yet is the gofpel no new law. 9

All precepts to the law belong,
Yet in the gofpel-field are throng. 10
Curs'd ev'ry gofpel-flighter is, 11

Yet all its office is to blefs. 12

covenant that I will make with the houfe of Ifrael after thofe days, faith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts; and I will be to them a God, and they fhall be to me a people. And they fhall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, faying, Know the Lord: for all fhall know me from the leaft to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteoufnefs, and their fins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

1 John iii. 18. He that believeth on him, is not condemned: but he that believeth not, is condemned already, becaufe he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

2 Rom. x. 5. For Mofes defcribeth the righteoufhefs which is of the law, That the man which doth thofe things fhall live by them. And iii. 19. Now we know that what things foever the law faith, it faith to them who are under the law that every mouth may be ftopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

3 John iii. 18. He that believeth on him, is not condemned.

4 Viz. as it is a rule.

5 Tit. ii. 11, 12. See figure 5 forecited.

6 Viz. as it is a covenant.

7 Gal v. 3, 4. For I teftify again to every man that is circumcifed, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. Chrift is become of no effect unto you; whofoever of you are juftified by the law, ye are fallen from grace.

8 Rom. xvi. 25, 26.-The mystery that was kept fecret fince the world began, now is made manifeft, and by the fcriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlafting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith.

9 Gal. iii. 21. Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteouf nef. thould have been by the law.

10 Matth. v. 17, 18. Think not that I am come to deftroy the law or For verily I fay unto the prophets: I am not come to deftroy, but to fulfil you, Till heaven and earth pals, one jot or one tittle fhall in no wife pafs from the law, till all be fulfilled, &c. Plalm cxix. 96. I have feen an end of all perfection; but thy commandment is exceeding broad.

11 Heb. x. 26,-29. For if we fin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more facrifice for fins, but a certain

It from the law has pow'r to kill,
Yet faving does it pow'r fulfil; 2
No favour but of life it hath, 3
Yet moft the favour is of death. 4
Weakness perfection doth exclude,
The law is perfect, juft, and good: 5
Yet can it nothing perfect make,
But all the comers to it break. 6
Strength to the gospel does belong,
Mighty through God it is, and ftrong: 7
It to the law does ftrength emit,
Yet 'tis the law gives firength to it.

fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adverfaries. He that defpiled Mofes' law, died without mercy, under two or three witnesses; of how much forer pun fhment, suppose ye, fhail he be thought worthy of, who hath trodden under oot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was fanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? Chap. xii. 25. See that ye refu e not him that speaketh: for if they escaped not who refufed him that fpake on earth, much more shall not we escape, it we turn away from himthat speaketh from heaven.

12 Rom. xv. 29. And I am fure that when I come unto you, I fhall come in the fulness of the blefling of the gospel of Chrift. Acts iii. 26. Unto you firft, God having raised up his Son Jefus, fent him to blefs you, in turning away. every one of you from his iniquities

1 John iii. 18-He that believeth not, is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Mark xvi. 16. He that believeth not, fhall be damned. Heb. ii. 3. How fhall we escape, if we neglect fo great falvation?

2 Eph. i. 13. In Chrift ye alfo trufted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the golpel of your falvation. 1 Tim. i. 15. This is a faithful faying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Chrift Jefus came into the world to fave finners; of whom I am chief.

3 Phil. ii. 16. Holding forth the word of life, &c. 2 Tim. i. 1. Paul an apoitle of Jefus Chrift by the will of God, according to the promife of life, which is in Chriit J.fus. Ver. 1o.-Our Saviour Jefus Chrift-hath abolithed death, and hath brought life and immortality to light, through the gospel.

4 2 Cor. ii. 16. To the one we are the favour of death unto death, &c. 5 Pfalm caix. 6. I have feen an end of all perfection: but thy command ment is exceeding broad. Rom. viii. 12. Wherefore the law is holy; and the comman, ment holy, and jutt, and good. Heb. vii. 19. For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.

6 Heb. vii. 19. See figure 6, above. Chap. x. 1. For the law having a fhadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with thofe facritices which they offered year by year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect.

7 Rom. i. 16. For I am not afhamed of the gospel of Chrift: for it is the power of God unto falvation, to every one that believeth, to the Jew firtt, and alfo to the Greek. 2 Cor. x. 4, 5. For the weapons of our warfare are not, carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of ftrong holds; catting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itfelf againit the knowlede of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Chrift