Of 7uflfcation by Faith. 139 we concli de that a man is juflied by faith S E R M. without deeds of the law ; which do &rine VI. he Pays, at the 31ít ver. of the fame chapter, does not make void the law, but eflablifh it rather. It does not derogate from the ho- nour and obligation of the moral immutable precepts, which are taken into the chriftian fcheme, as effential ; tho' the ceremonial inftitutions are declared unneceffary, and un- profitable to jufrification. It is almoft need - lefs to mention particular paffages from this apoftle ; his epiftles abound with fo many, which every reader muff obferve. What expreffions can be more firong and full than thofe in Gal. ii. 15, 16. (hewing that not only the Gentiles, but the Jews themfelves, with all their great privileges, mutt obtain forgivenefs and the favour of God, in this way only ? We who are yews by nature, and not 'inners of the Gentiles : Knowing that a man is jufiifled, not by the deeds of the law, but by the faith of Chri/l, even we have believed in refus Chr /, that we might be jufl fed by the faith of ChrUl, and not by the works of the law : For by the works of the law 'hall no. lefh be jufl ed. To underftand this we may obferve, that chriftianity being a revelation from heaven, that
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