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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE
[DISC.
IV.
us practise "
love to
God and our
'neighbour,
which
is
the fulfilling
of
the
law;"
as
far
as
our
state.
of
frailty
permits;
Rom.
xiii.
10.
The
design
of
the grace
of God
in
Christ
Jesus
is,
that
we
might
be holy,
and
without
blame before
God,
in
love."
Are
"
we
chosen
in
Christ
?
It
is
" that
we
may
be holy;
Rph.
i.
2, 4.
Doth God
forgive
us
?
It
is
that,
we
may
fear, and
love,
and
serve him
;"
Ps
cxxx. 4.
There
"
is
forgiveness with
God,, that
he
may be
feared." Are
we
redeemed with the blood
of
Christ
?
It
is
"
that
we might
be
a peculiar
people, zealous
of
good
works
;"
Tit.
ii. 14.
Doth
" the grace
of God
bring
salvation
to
us
?
It
teaches
us
to deny ungodliness
and
worldly
lusts,
to live righteously, soberly, and
reli-
giously,
in
this
present
evil
world
;"
Tit.
ii. 11,
12.
We
are
under
the
la.w
still
unto
Christ,
as
it
is
the
rule
whereby Christ
governs
his
church,
while he
pardons
their
failures and imperfections
:
But
we
are
not under the
law, as
it
is
the
rule
of
judgment,
and condemns
all
that
have
not
fulfilled
it.
We 'are
freed from
the
curse
of
the
law,
but
not
from the obligation to obedience.
So.
the
apostle,
1
Cor.
ix. 21.
.
All
believers
have
this
freedom
from the curse
of
the
law,
that
from
a
new
principle of
holiness and
love,
they
may fulfil the commands
of
the
law, as
far
as
our present
circumstances
will
admit;
Rom.
vii.
6.
"
But
now we
are
delivered from the
law,
that
being dead
wherein
we
were held
;
that
we
should serve
God, not
in the
spirit
of terror
and bondage, but
in
new-
ness
of
spirit,
and not
in
the oldness
of
the
letter,
i.
e.
by a
new
principle
of
holiness,
wrought in
us
by
the
Spirit of God, as
a
principle of
love
and
obedience.
2.
The gospel
gives us
encouragement and
strength
to
fulfil
the
duties
of
the'
law,
and engages us to
hope
in
God, that
we
may love
him,
please
and
serve
him,
as
a
forgiving
and reconciling God,
which
the broken
law,
.
with
all its commands,
threatenings, and terrors,
Both
not, and could never
do.
The
law speaks only
condem-
nation
and death.
"As
many
as
labour
for
life
under
the
law, and would
be
justified
by
the
law,
are
Under
the
curse,
and
may
despair of
life ;"
Gal.
iii.
10.
Now
de-
spair
is no
spring
of
obedience,
and
hopeless labour
is
very
feebly
and
negligently
performed
;
but
hope
is
a
powerful and lasting principle
of holiness:
1
°John
iii. 3.