the Reader,: V Time have high Precenfons to Orthodoxy ; yet by being Strangers to the Tenor of the Covenant, are carried away by a legal Spi- rit, than which there cannot be a worfe Temper and Difpofition : For if a legal Strain run through our .Doarine and wor- ihip, our Exhortations, Motives and Direc- tions to Duty, it will take us from off the alone Foundation, Jefus Chrifl, and fettle us all upon our felves, which will make ano- ther Gofpel, and would bring, even an An- gel, under a dreadful Curfe. I am inclin- ed to think, that one chief Reafon, why the Gofpel hath fo little Succefs in our Time, is the legal Sermons; for we cannot expeét that the warm Influences, and powerful O- perations of the Spirit will be conveyed by any other Way than by the hearing of Faith. The Third is of the godly and learned Mrs Thomas Halyburton, Profeffor of .Divinity at St.. Andrews, in the Memoirs of his Life, a Book which is almofl in every One's Hands, page 145, faith; I faw the Evil of legal Preach- ing, which lies in one of two Things, or both; rid}, In laying too much Strefs on the Works . of the Law, our Duties and Strength : Or, 2dly, in preffing Evangelical Duties, without any Eye to that which is the Spring of the Church's Edification, the: Spirit of the Lord : Some preis to Duties fo,, that they feem to think, that their Rea-
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