we are changed into the same image, from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord. "But, when Moses is read, the vail is still upon the heart." Will taking the law on the believer serve to mortify the deeds of the body? No. "If ye, through the Spirit, do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live." Will taking this yoke increase the Spirit of holiness in the believer? No. "He that ministereth the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?" Will this yoke keep the believer from, or assist the believer against, fulfilling the lusts of the flesh? No. "Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh." Will this yoke of the law subdue sin? No. "Sin shall not have dominion over you." Why not? Because "ye are not under the law, but under grace." Will this yoke of the law make the believer's service more acceptable to God? No. "We are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of the Spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." Will this yoke of the law produce love and gratitude to God? No. "The law worketh wrath;" for "where there is no law there is no transgression." It is the love of Christ that constraineth us. Will this yoke of the law furnish the believer with love to his neighbour? or will it promote brotherly love? No: it will rather lead them to seek preeminence. It does not exclude boasting. We are taught of God to love one another; and it is

the love of God in Christ, shed abroad in the heart by the Spirit, that is the bond of all perfectness among brethren. But does this love come from the law? or does it come by the law? Neither of them. God's love to us is the bond of the covenant of grace; and, when shed abroad in our heart, it is our bond of union to the Lord. This love is the first fruit of the Spirit; and is the main branch of the law of the Spirit which is in Christ Jesus, which makes us free from the law of sin and death. Will the believer's taking this yoke upon him increase his good works? No. "He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit." But will this yoke strengthen the believer's union with the Lord? No. They that begin in the Spirit, and then go to the law, to be made perfect by the flesh, fall from grace; Christ shall profit them nothing. But will the law help the believer, if we consider the law as a joint worker with Christ? No. "Abide in me, and I in you; for without me ye can do nothing." Will this law enlarge the believer's heart? No: it genders to bondage; begets servile fear, accompanied with a train of torments, which nothing but covenant love can cast out. "Fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love; for perfect love casteth out fear." Will this yoke make the believer abound in good works? No." I laboured more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." Will this yoke produce self-ab

horrence? No. When God makes, or rather reveals, the new covenant to the sinner; pardons him; gives him a new heart and a new spirit; and by grace appears pacified toward him; then he remembers his own evil way, which was not good; and loaths himself in his own sight for his iniquities. The law will never reconcile a man to the justice of God, but pardoning mercy does. The terrors of the law stir up enmity, but grace slays it. The motions of sin, which are by the law, work in the members to bring forth fruit unto death, Rom. vii. 5; but faith purifies the heart. The law fixes the veil upon the sinner's mind; but the gospel brings life and immortality to light. The law does not exclude boasting; grace produces humility. The law stirs up enmity against God; grace fills a man with enmity against sin. The terrors of the law will make Cain cry out against his punishment; but grace makes a man cry out against himself and his wickedness. Legal convictions by the law work nothing but self-pity; but grace works pity and compassion to the Saviour. Under the terrors of the law a man will justify himself, and censure his Maker; but by grace, through Christ, a man is led to condemn himself, and justify God. God appears just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus. They that die under the law will plead their own merit at the bar of God: "When saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?"

But the saints disclaim the fruits of their faith, even though the Judge proclaims and approves them.

I know that the law calls for righteousness, holiness, and love, but it is out of the fulness of Christ that all these must be received; and he that is united to Christ, and walks in union with him, walks in all these; for the moral law is swallowed up in the everlasting gospel. The merits of our covenant head answer every demand of the law for us; while the testimony of faith, and the fruits of the Spirit, give an answer to every demand of the law in us. The righteousness of the law is fulfilled in them who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit, Rom. viii. 4.

If the doctrine here advanced be antinomianism, then let our opponents shew us what is gospel. And, if this doctrine makes void the law, let them shew us what doctrine that is that establishes it. And, if leading the believer from union with the Saviour to the yoke of the law, and making that his only rule of life, walk, and conduct, establishes the law, let them shew us in what sense it does it. The saints' fruits of faith, and labours of love, are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ: but so far are they from being a perfect righteousness, according to the tenor of the old covenant, that even the righteousness of Zion is but filthy rags, and the righteousness of the apostle Paul but dung and dross; and this righteousness will never establish the law. We

establish the law in the hand of Justice against every infidel; and as magnified in the heart of Christ to every believer; and by imputed righteousness, and the love of the Spirit, in every child of God; and with all its requirements, and in full force, against every sinner out of Christ; and in the souls of all the damned in hell. And, if these are not its proper bases, let our opponents shew us any other. But making the law the believer's only rule of life establishes it no where, nor in any sense. Love is called the fulfilling of the law, and by imputed righteousness and the spirit of love it is fulfilled in the saint. But, if walking in the Spirit will not answer the demands of the law; it can hardly be thought that bringing our necks under the yoke of the letter can answer the requirements of the gospel, which calls for service in the newness of the Spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. God has made ample provision, in the covenant of grace, both for holiness, happiness, and good works; and furnishes us with the former to make us fruitful in the latter. "For by grace are ye saved, through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God. Not of works, lest any man should boast: for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained [prepared] that we should walk in them." For my own part, I have watched many who traduce the grace of God, as tending to licentiousness, and the preachers of it as antinomians; and who extol themselves, and