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ISS
THE DIFFERENCE
EETWEAEN
THE LAW,
&C.
(MSC.
TV.
and
all
óur
salvation
!
Even
all
our
hopes
of
pardon
and
acceptance
with
God,
as
well
as all
our
strength
to
do
the
will
of
God, and
obey his
law, so
far
as
christians
are
enabled
and,
expected
to do
in
this
life.
Let
us
fly
from the
law and
its
curses,
and
condemna-
tion,
to
the refuge and hope
which
the
gospel has
set
before
us,
and
live
there
daily,
by
faith
in
the
Son
of
God
the Saviour
;
for there only
lies
our
safety from the
wrath
of
God, and
eternal destruction.
Remark
5.
What
a glorious harmony
will
appear
in
the
review
of
all the
dispensations
of
God at
the
last
day,
between the
law
and
the gospel
!
The
law
was
the
instru-
ment of God's government of
his
creatures, and the rule
of
his
justice,
from the beginning
of
the
world
to the end
:
But
the
gospel
is
the
instrument of
his
grace for our sal-
vation.
The
law
is
the rule,
guiding and teaching
all
the saints
in
the
ways
of
holiness, convincing
of
sin,
and condemn-
ing
all
sinners,
and driving
them
to seek refuge
in
grace
:
And the
gospel
is
the noble and divine remedy, disco-
vering
that
grace, whereby
alone
we
can be saved.
And
why
may
not
these sentiments,
be
part of
our
transporting
and beatifying contemplations,
in
the
hea-
venly
state
It
is
generally agreed
by
our
divines,
that
the
various providences
of
the
life
and
state
we
have
past
through
in
this
world,
whether
they have
been painful
or
pleasant,
shall
be
the
matter of our
delightful review
and
meditation
;
especially
so
far
as they have
been the hap-
py means
of
our sanctification, and
our preparation,
for
the
final blessedness
of
the heavenly state.
I
am
well
assured, there
will
be
abundant matter
of
joy
and thankfulness,
found
in
these different dispensa-
tions
of
God,
in his
bringing many
sons to
glóry;
and
there
will
be ample' instances
of
his
providential
care,
and
glorious examples
of
his
righteousness and
his gr
-ace,
in a
thousand
particular
transactions of the
blessed
God,
and
our
Lord Jesus Christ
his Son, with
the children of
his grace
:
And
perhaps there shall
be
such discoveries
made
tó us,
of the
righteousness and the grace
of
God
in
his
holy law
and
his gospel.,
among these divine
transac-
%ions,
as
will
elevate our
souls
into higher raptures
of
gratitude
and joy, and
furnishtbur
tongues
with
pleasant
-and
everlasting
hallelujahs.