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awaken them. It is by his preaching of the law to their consciences, that they are alarmed with fearful apprehensions of their guilt, and of their danger. He brings them to see the exceeding sinfulness of sinning against the holy, just, and good law of God, and convinces them that the broken law can never make them legally righteous. This puts them upon seeking such a righteousness as the law requires, and disposes them to receive gladly the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ: For he is now the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

7. Thus the Holy Spirit convinces sinners that the law is not repealed by the gospel, and when he gives them the righteousness which is of God by faith, and they have justification to life freely by grace, does he teach them to make void the law by faith? God forbid. Yea, they establish the law: For they consent unto it that it is good. They delight in the law of God after the inward man, and they keep it in their outward life and conversation. It is the rule of their holy walking. They are free from the law as to its condemning, killing power, but they are under the law to Christ. They know, that if the law had not been unalterable, and of indispensable obligation, Christ had lived and died in vain. And he did not come to give his people liberty to break the unalterable law; that would be a contradiction in terms. But he came to establish the law, by restoring it to its honour and dignity, by his obedience to its precepts, and by his suffering its pains and penalties, and then by mak

ing it honourable in the confession of convinced sinners, and in the lives of his redeemed people.

These are some of the principal points treated of in the following discourses. In which I have endeavoured to follow scripture closely. This has been my guide; and I have constantly desired his teaching who inspired it. And I now pray him to shine into the heart of every one who reads these discourses. May he always accompany the perusal of them with his divine grace and blessing; and if they be made useful to the church of Christ, may his be all the glory. Give it him, reader; for it is his due, and pray for thy hearty well-wisher.

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