ftroy the law or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. With v. 38. Ye have heard, that it hath been faid, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: v. 39. But fay unto you, that ye refift not evil: but whofoever fhall fmite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other alfo. 1 Cor. ix. 3. Say I these things as a man? or faith not the law the fame alfo? v. 9. For it is written in the law of Mofes, Thou fhalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn: Doth God take care for oxen? v. 10. Or faith be it altogether for our fakes? for our fakes no doubt, this is written, that he that ploweth fhall plow in hope; and that he that threfheth in hope, fhould be partaker of his hope.

V. Rom, xiii. 8, 9. (See above in letter b.) v. 10. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. Eph. vi. 2. Honour thy father and mother, which is the first commandment with promife. John ii. 3. And hereby do we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. v. 4. He that faith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. v. 7. Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment, which ye had from the beginning: the old command

ment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning, v. 8. Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is paft, and the true light now fhineth. i James ii. 10, 11. (See in letterb.)

k Mat. v. 17. (fee in letter g.) v. 18. For verily, I fay unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one title fhall in no wife pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. v. 19. Whofoever therefore fhall break one of thefe least commandments, and shall teach inen fo, he fhall be called the leaft in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever fhall do, and teach them, the fame fhall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. James ii. 8. See in letter b before.) Rom. iii. 31. Do we then make void the law thro' faith? God forbid : yea, we establish the law.

VI. /Rom. vi. 14. For fin fhall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. Gal. ii. 16. Knowing that a man is not juftified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jefus Christ, even we have believed in Jefus Chrift; that we might be justified by the faith of Chrift, and not, by the works of the law: for by the works of the law fhall no fleth be juftified. Gal. iii. 13. Chrift hath redeemed us from the curfe of the law, being made a curfe for us: for it is writ

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ten, Curfed is every one that hangéth on a tree. Gal. iv. 4. But when the fulness of the time was come, God fent forth his Son made of a woman, made under the law, v. 5. To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of fons. Acts xiii. 39. And by him all that believe are juflified from all things, from the which ye could not be juftified by the law of Mofes, Rom. viii. 1. There is therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Chrift Jefus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Rom. vii. 12. Wherefore the law is holy; and the commandment holy, and just and good. v. 22. For 1 delight in the law of God, after the inward man. v. 25. I thank God through Jefus Chrift our Lord. So then, with the mind, 1 myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh, the law of fin. Pfal. cxix. 4. Thou haft commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. v. 5. O that my ways were directed to keep thy ftatutes! v. 6, Then fhall I not be afhamed, when I have refpect unto all thy commandments. 1 Cor. vii. 19. Circumcifion is nothing, and uncircumcifion is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of .God, Gal, v. 14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. See in the Bible.

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then? Is the law fin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known fin, but by the law: for I had not known luft, except the law had faid, Thou fhalt not covet, Rom. iii. 20. Therefore by the deeds of the law, there shall no flesh be justified in his fight: for by the law is the knowledge of fin.

James i. 23. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glafs: v. 24. For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. v. 25. But whofo looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the word, this man fhall be bleffed in his deed. Rom. vii. 9. For I was alive without the law once but when the commandment came, fin revived, and I died. v. 14. For we know that the law is fpiritual: but I am carnal, fold under fin. V. 24. O wretched man that I am, who fhall deliver me from the body of this death?

p Gal. iii. 24. Wherefore the law was our fchool-master, to bring us unto Chrift, that we might be jullified by faith. Rom, vii, 24. (See before in the letter o. v. 25. in letter m.) Rom. viii. 3. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God fending his own Son in the likeness of finful flesh, and for

fin condemned fin in the flesh v. 4. That the righteoufnefs of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit,

9 James ii. 11. For he that faid, Do not commit adultery, faid alfo, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a tranfgreffor of the law. Pfal, cxix. 101. I have refrained my feet from every evil way: that I may keep thy word. v. 104. Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore 1 hate every false way. v. 128. Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every falfe way.

r Ezra ix. 13. And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trefpafs, feeing that thou our God haft punished us lefs than our iniquities deferve, and • haft given us fuch deliverance as this; v. 14. Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldst not thou be angry with us, till thou hadit confumed us, fo that there fhould be no remnant for escaping? Pfal. lxxxix. 30. If bis children forfake my law, and walk not in my judginents; v. 31. If they break my ftatutes, and keep not my commandments: v. 32. Then will I vifit their tranfgreffion

with the rod, and their iniquity with ftripes. v. 33. Nevertheless, my loving kindness will I not atter ly take from him, nor fuffer my faithfulness to fail. v. 34. My cove nant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

Lev. xxvi. to the 14. verfe.) With 2 Cor. vi. 16. And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath faid, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they fhall be my people. Eph. vi. 2. Honour thy father and thy mother (which is the first commandment with promise.) v. 3. That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. Pfal. xxxvii. 11. But the meek fhall inherit the earth; and fhall delight themfelves in the abundance of peace. With Mat. v. 5. Bleffed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Pfal. xix. 11. Moreover, by them is thy fervant warned; and in keeping of them there is a great reward.

Gal. ii. 16. Knowing that a man is not juftified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jefus Chrift, even we have believed in Jefus Chrift that we might be juftified by the faith of Chrift, and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law fhall no flesh be juftified. Luke xvii.

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10. So likewife ye, when ye fhall have done all thofe things which are commanded you, fay, We are unprofitable fervants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

Rom. vi. 12. Let not in therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye fhould obey it in the lufts thereof. v. 14. For fin foall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. 1 Pet. iii. 8. Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compaflion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous, v. 9. Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwife, blefling: knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye fhould inherit a bleffing. v. 10. For he that will love life, and fee good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile.. v. 11. Let him efchew evil, and do good; let him feek peace and enfue it. v. 12. For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers; but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil, With Pfal. xxxiv. 12. What man is he that defireth life, and loveth many days, that he may fee good?

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V. 13. Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from fpeaking guile. v. 14. Depart from evil, and do good; feek peace, and purfue it. v. 15. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. v. 16. The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them" from the earth. Heb, xii. 38. Where fore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may ferve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear, v. 29. For our God is a confuming fire.

VII. w Gal. iii, 21. Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid; for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

* Ezek. xxxvi. 27. And I will put my Spirit within you, and caufe you to walk in my ftatutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them, Heb. viii. 10. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Ifrael after those days, faith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts; and I will be to them a God,

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