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THE
plEfEA,ENGE
EfTeWEEaN
THE
[Udsc,
rv.
the
pure
in
heart,
for
they
shall
see
God;
Mat.
v.
8.
Without
holiness
no,naan
shall
see
the
Lord;
Heb.
xii. 14.
¡nded
none can
be
truly
happy
but
those
who
are sane-
tified
and assimilated
to the
holy
Jesus.
A child
of
$titan,
and an enemy
of
righteousness, and
of the
law
of
God,
ran
never
be
happy
in the midst
of
the children
of
God,
who
have
his
law
written
it
their
hearts,
and are
ever practising obedience to
his law
in
perfection.
Holiness
is
indeed
a
part of
salvation,
which consists
in
a,
release
from
the bondage
of
sin,
and
the power
of
it
in our
own
hearts,
as
well
as from
the.guilt
and punish
-
ment
of
it
in
our persons. And the man
who professes
to
receive the
gospel
of
Christ,
and hope
in
God
for sal-
vation,
he
cloth
not
know
what
he professes,
if
he does
not
hope for
holiness,
and long for
it,
and desire
-it.
If
he
goes
to
trust
in
Christ
as
a Saviour, merely from the
wrath of
God
and hell, he
Both
not accept of Jesus,
as
such a Saviour as
the gospel
represents
him
;
i
e,
a
Sa-
viour
from
sin
;
Mat.
i.
21.
as well as
from hell and
wrath.
Lastly,
REMARKS
drawn
from
the whole text, thus
opened explained and proved,
Remark
1.
See why
St.
Paul
always
denies
justifica-
tion
to
be
obtained
by
the
law,
is
e.
by
any
law
whatso-
ever
:
v z,
because none have
fulfilled,
or can
fulfil,
any moral
law
of God
in
perfection;
and
a
law
requires
perfect
obedience,
in
order
to
justification
by it.:
Nor
is
it
in the
nature
or power
of
it,
to.
justify
those.
who
are
under
it,
and
yield
not perfect obedience.
Cursed
be
every
one
that
continued?,
not in
all
things,
which
are
written
in
the
book
of
the
law, to
do
them
;
Gal.
iii.
10.
The
epistles
to
the
Romans
.and
Galatians
are
full
of
this
doctrine.
Whether
it
be
the
law
of
nature
;
Rona,
ii.
14,
15,
or whether the
law
under
which
the
Jews
were,
which
includes the moral, ceremonial, and political pre-
cepts
of
it;
Roma.
iii,
19,
20, 23.
all
have sinned, and
come
short of the
glory.
of
God,
,
By
the works
of
the
law,
any
law
whatsoever, no
flesh
shall be,justified. Man
Both
.not,
cannot, obtain
life
by any
law;
it cannot
give
life.
In
this sense
all
laws
are
laws
of
works
:
Do
this
and
live,is
their
Ianguage and
sense.
The
man.
that
loth
them
shall
live
in them; Gal,
iii.
12.
Remark
Q.
See
here
to
what a wretched and deplor-