VI. I Rom. vi. 14. For sin shall

not have dominion over you : for ye are not under the law, but under grace. Gal. ii. 16. Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ ; even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law : for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. Gal. iii. 13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us : for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree. Gal. iv. 4, But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the lav/, "Ver. 5. To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. Acts xiii. 39.
And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. Rom. viii. 1. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
'" Rom. vii. ] 2. Wherefore the law is holy ; and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Ver. 22. For 1 delight'in the law of God after the inward man. Ver. 25. I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God ; but with the flesh ' the law of sin. Psal. cxix. 4. I'hou hast commanded us to keep thy pre- \ cepts diligently. Ver. 5. O that my.| ways were directed to keep thy sta- j tutes ! Ver. 6. Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments. 1 Cor, vii. 19. Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. Gal. v. 14, 16, IS, l.*), 20, 21, 22, 23. Sc-e in the Bible.
^ Rom. vii. 7. What shall we say then ? Is the law sin .? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin but by the law : for I had not known lust, except the law had said, 'i hou shalt not covet. Rom. iii. 20. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight ; for by the law is the knowledge of sin,
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come to further conviction of, humiliat^MK^fc^, and hatred against sin " ; to£jether with a clearer gj^jft^ the need tiiey have of Christ, and the perfection of ft^^U^dience ». It is likewise of use to the regenerate, to r??TwttaJth6i^ corruptions, in that it forbids sin'i; and the threatenings of it serve to shew what even their sins desei-ve, and what Billictions in this life they may expect for them, although freed from the curse thereof threatened in the law '. The
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^ James i. 23. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he -is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass; Ver. 24. For he beholdeth himself, and go- eth his way, and straightway for- getteth what manner of man he was. Ver. 25. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and con- tiniieth therein, he being not a for- getful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his detd. Rom. vii. 9. For I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. Ver. H. For we know that the law is spiritual ; but I am carnal, sold under sin. Ver. 24. O wretched man that I am ! who shall deliver me- from the body of this death ?
P Gal. iii. 24. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us Unto Christ, that we mij;ht be jus- tified by faith. Rom. vii. i;4. [Sa hi/on in Ictttr °. Verse 2.5. in let- ter "'.J Rom. viiL 3. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flt^h, God send- ing his own Son in the likeness of «nful flesh, aiid for sin, condemned sm in the fle.-h : Ver. 4. That the righteousness of the law miglit be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
*l James ii. II. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said al-o,
Do not kill. Now, if thou com- mit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. Psal. cxix. 101. I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. Ver. 104. l^hrou^h thy precept* I get understanding ; therefore I hate every false way. Ver. 128. Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right ; and I hate ever}' false way.
""Ezra ix. 13. And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this; Ver. 11. Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations ? wouldest not thou be angry with us, till thou hadst coEsumcd us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping ? Psal. Ixxxix. 30. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; Ver. 31. If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments ; Ver. 32. Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Ver. 33. Neverthe- less my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail, Ver. 34. My covenant will I not break, nor uUer
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promises of it, in like manner, shew them God's approba- tion of obedience, and what blessings they may expect upon the performance thereof', ahhoiigh not as due to them by the law as a covenant of works ^ : so as a man's doing good, and refraining from evil, because the law encourageth to the one, and deterreth from the other, is no evidence of his being under the law, and not undcjf grace ".