THE LAW ESTABLISHED THRO' FAITH.
Discourse II.
Rom. iii. 31.
Do we then make void the law thro' faith? God forbid! Yea, we establish the law.
1. It has been shewn in the preceding discourse,
which are the most usual ways of
making void the law thro' faith: namely, first,
The not preaching it at all, which effectually
makes it all void at a stroke: and this under colour
of preaching Christ and magnifying the gospel,
tho' it be in truth, destroying both the one
and the other: secondly, The teaching (whether
directly or indirectly) that faith supersedes the
necessity of holiness: that this is less necessary
now, or a less degree of it necessary, than before
Christ came: that it is less necessary to us, because
we believe, than otherwise it would have
been: or, that Christian liberty is a liberty from
any kind or degree of holiness: (so perverting
those great truths, that we are now under the co-*
