I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God; for, if righteousness came by the law, then Christ is dead in vain," Gal. ii. 16-21.

Christ cannot be the minister of sin: but the question is put to those who represent him as such; who frustrate the grace of God by their legality, and debase the Gospel by an outcry for good works before folks; but in heart, in power, and in practice, are inferior to others: nor have I a single doubt but Mr. Evans is inferior, in all these respects, to many of those whom he accuses.

Nor is the law made void through faith: for it is established in the hand of a just Judge, in the heart of the Mediator, as magnified and made honourable; and in the fleshly tables of every believing heart, as written by the Spirit of the living God: the righteousness of the law is fulfilled in such who walk, not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. If it is thus established by the preaching of faith, and the righteousness of it fulfilled in the believer, how can it be made void? Why, you write, Sir, like one who never had one glimpse of the Gospel mystery. I am obliged to speak to you as unto carnal, as unto a babe in Christ; for you. seem to be not only unskilful, but altogether unacquainted with the word of righteousness; and I question not that several Antinomian old women, who usually sit under my ministry, are able to dissect and anatomize this whole body of legality.

'And yet, what can be spoken of with more 'horror than this; "God forbid! we establish the 'law?"

Don't be shocked, Sir, nor tremble; for God will make you tremble much more before he takes you to heaven: Satan's sieve, or some fiery trial, will consume all this hay, straw, and stubble, before you are eternally saved. I have shewn you copiously how the law is established; and do you establish it any other way, if you can. Calling it

the believer's rule of life has never established it yet, nor ever will. The righteousness of the law is fulfilled in the believer, not by him; it is fulfilled in him by the work of God, not by his own works. If your notion establishes the law, then the Pharisees, who told the believers to be circumcised, and keep the law of Moses, were the only people that did it; but these were charged with coming in only to spy out the liberty of the saints, that they might bring them into bondage. Nor will you ever establish the law by the good works of the saints this way. Good works do not spring from God's will of commandments, but from his will of purpose: "Created in Christ Jesus, unto good works, which God hath before ordained, that we should walk in them." Nor do they spring from the ministry of the letter, but from the ministry of the Spirit, by whom we are furnished unto all good works. Nor is the law the grand teacher of good works, but it is the grace of God that teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts; and to

live soberly, righteously, and godly, in the world. Nor is man the active agent of good works; but God, who works in him both to will and to do. Nor must the self-important, I, or We, or Shall we, run away with the glory of good works: "I laboured more abundantly than they all; yet, not I, but the grace of God that was with me.'

'If the law be no rule of life to a believer, his 'breach of it can be no sin; and his pretending, 'therefore, to boast of the blood of Christ, as having ensured to him the pardon of his sins, 'when he can have none since he first believed, 6 upon his principles, to be pardoned; is a piece of 'impiety on the one hand, or hypocrisy on the 'other, which wants a name to describe it, there 'is so much complicated guilt and impiety in'volved in it.'

Making the law of faith, and that of the Spirit of life, not worthy the name of a law, so no rule is another debasement of the Gospel; consequently, counteracting these laws can be no sin. At the great day, however, the following books will be opened.

The heathens are a law to themselves, their thoughts and consciences accusing or excusing one another. These sin without law, and shall be judged without law, when the book of Conscience is laid open, and the thoughts of their hearts are made manifest.

The blind legalist, who is under the law, and sins in the law, shall be judged by the law, when

the roll of the Pentateuch is unfolded; and the awful contents of lamentation, mourning, and wo, are discovered.

He who hears the Gospel and believes not, or is not obedient to the faith, is condemned already. This is his condemnation, that light is come into the world, but he hugged the old veil, he loved darkness rather than light, because his deeds were evil. He believes not, and shall be damned. He obeys not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, and shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and the glory of his power, 2 Thess 1. 8. 9.

He who blasphemes against the Holy Ghost, sins against the greatest law, and the last Lawgiver; for he sins against the law of the Spirit of life, which is the sin unto death, and the great transgression; and this will appear when the book of life is opened. But, how an unbeliever can be damned when the law of faith is no rule of life, or of obedience to life, is to me a mystery. And how one disobedient to the Gospel can be punished with everlasting destruction, when it is no law to be obeyed; or how any man can be guilty of the great transgression, or the unpardonable sin, if the law of the Spirit be no rule; is what I cannot comprehend, and it is what this author can never explain. If the believer and professor of faith have no rule of life except the moral law, the Judge of all the earth, if he proceeds in judgment according to the above account, will hardly do right. And

I will leave the righteous to judge where this reproach is likely to fall; and whether this advocate for the law does not mutilate, disfigure, and debase the Gospel of Christ, and the ministry of the Spirit, worse than any Antinomian ever debased the law? In all the treatises, ancient or modern, which I have ever read on this subject, I have invariably seen the propriety of the Holy Spirit's assertion, that those who desire to be teachers of the law turn aside to vain jangling, knowing neither what they say nor whereof they affirm, 1 Tim. 1. 7.

Nor has this author established the law on any one of its own proper foundations; neither in the hand of Justice, nor in the heart of the Mediator, who is both our Ark and Mercy-seat; nor in the hand of the Spirit, the heart of the saints, or the souls of the damned. I defy the whole world to prove that he hath established either the law or the Gospel. We are told that the law is the believer's rule of life; and that, if it be not, the believer, or hypocritical professor, for such are intended by Antinomians, can have no sin to be pardoned: consequently, neither the law of the Spirit, nor the consciences of Heathens, are either laws or rules; and therefore the damnation of both must be unjust; it cannot be a righteous judgment; nor can the hypocritical tribe, or heathen part of the world, be judged in righteousness.

And further, if the believer and the infidel, the son and the servant, have both one rule, the just God must be just to that law; and, as it is the