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THE
DIFFERENCE
EETWEE
N
THE
[DIsc.
ni.
they
are under a sentence of condemnation
-by
the
law
of
God, whatsoever
law
they
are under, whether the
law
of
nature, or
any
laws
of revelation
:
forasmuch as no
man hath ever perfectly
fulfilled
any
law
that God
had
given
him,
and therefore
all
are
come
short
of
justifica-
tion
and
life,
all
are fallen short
of
the
glory
of
God,
promised
to
obedience.
See
this
at
large,
both declared,
pronounced,
and
argued;
Rom.
iii.
9
-20.
By
the
law
shall
no,
flesh
living
be
justified,
&c.
Quest.
6.
What
is
that
promise
given
by
the faith
of
Christ
to
them
that
believe
?
Answ.
The promise of
salvation,
and the inheritance
of
heaven, typified
by
the land
of
Canaan,
given
origi-
nally
and eminently to Abraham,
and
his
seed,
and
con-
tinued
to
those
who
are
his
spiritual
seed,
viz.
who be-
lieve or
trust
in
Christ,
who
is
the Messiah promised
to
Abraham
:
for
by
faith
in
Christ
we
are made the chil-
dren of
Abraham
;
Gal.
iii. 29,
i.
e.
as
we
are imitators
of
his
faith,
so
we
are
invested with
his
benefits;
i.
e.
those
who
imitate Abraham
by
trusting
in
the
mercy
of God
through
the Messiah,
Crow
he
is
come in the
flesh,
as
Abraham trusted
in him
before he came,
are accounted
in the sight
of
God, the children or posterity
of
Abra-
ham, and are
partakers of
those
blessings
of
the
inherit-
ance
of
eternal
life,
which
was
promised
to
Abraham,
under
types
and
figures
of
the land
of Canaan
;
Gal.
iii.
7,
8,
9,
29.
And
as
Abraham
was
made
a child
of
God
by trusting
in
the
ancient
promise,
so we
are made the
children
of God
by
faith,
or trusting
in
Jesus
Christ, the
Messiah
;
Gal.
iii.
26.
Having explained
the words
so
particularly,
I
come to
lay down these
observations
:
I.
C
}bserv.
There
is
a constant and happy harmony
between
the several revelations
of God
to men.
The
promise
to
Abraham, or
the gospel
proposed and preach-
ed
to him,
is
not contrary
to
the
law given
by
Moses
to
the
Jews.
The
law signifies
the precepts
of
God
revealed or
dis-
covered
to men, more
particularly
to
the
Jews.
The
gospel
is
the promise
of
the special
blessings
of
God
revealed
or
discovered to
men,
particularly
to
Abraham
of
old,
and
to
us in
a plainer manner,
in these
latter
days.
Here
I
shall
chew,
in
the
first
place,
that
the law
and