2,16 / The fcnf ulne/Je of Sinne. Gal,3,ro. Heb. 11,20, DM. Szç Exodus 34.30 AQs r 5. r o. Galath.5:3. motions depending there, muft.needs bee right too. Having thus opened at large the life_and Rate of origi nail fin, it in the lait place.to fhew, how the spirit by the comtnandement doth convince and difcover the lire of areal! fnne : in omitting fo much good,; in committing fo muc,t evtll,iu fyvatving and deviating from the rule in the manner and meafure of. all our fervices; And this it do h, by making us fee that great fpirìtualnes and perfection, that precife, univerfall, and conitant con formitie which the Law requires in all we do. Curled it every one that abideth not in all thin1s that are written in the Boole of the Law to doe them. `Perfeilienand per- perustie of obedience are the two things which the Law requires.. Suppofe we it po4hble for a man to fulfill every tittle of the Law in the whole compaffe of it,and that for his whole life together, one only partïcular,.and that the tnallei and molt imperceptible deviation from it being for one onely time excepted, yet fo rigorous and inexora- ble is the Law, that it fey les that man under the wrath and curfe of God. The heart cannot turne,the thoughts cannot rife, the atfeitions cannot flirre, the will cannot bend; but the Law meets with it, either as a Rule to mea- fure,,or as a Judge to cenfure it. It penetrates the inmofl thoughts, fearcheth the bottome of all our anions, bath a wideneffe in it which the heart of man cannot endure. They were not able to endure, faith the Apoftle, the things which were commanded ; and Why tempt you God, faith Saint Peter to thofe that preached Circumcifion, endpst R yoke upon the brethren, which neither we nor our fathers were able to beare ? Circumcifion it felfe they were able to beare, but that yoke which came with it, namely, the Debt of the »hole Law was by them and their fathers ut- terly unfupporrable. For this very caufe was the Law pu:,lifhea, that Pinemight thereby become exceeding/in- full, t'hac fo Gods grace might bee the more magnified, and his Gofptll the more accepted. Let us in a few words
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