THE LAW ESTABLISHED THRO' FAITH.
Discourse I.
Rom. iii. 31.
Do we then make void the law thro' Faith? God forbid. Yea, we establish the law.
1. Saint Paul having in the beginning of
this epistle, laid down his general proposition,
namely, That the gospel of Christ is the
power of God unto salvation, to every one that
believeth: the powerful means, whereby God
makes every believer a partaker of present and
eternal salvation, goes on to shew, that there is
no other way under heaven, whereby men can
be saved. He speaks particularly of salvation
from the guilt of sin, which he commonly terms
justification. And that all men stood in need of
this, that none could plead their own innocence,
he proves at large by various arguments, addrest
to the Jews as well as the Heathens. Hence
he infers (in the 19th verse of this chapter) That
every mouth, whether of Jew or Heathen, must
