DISCOURSE IV. The Dfferewe between the Low and the Gospel. GAL. iii. 21, 22.-1s thelaw then against the promises of God? God forbid: ror if there hád been a law given which could have giveü life, verily righ- teousness should have been by the law: But the scripture bath concluded all under sin, that the promise of faith by .lesuo Chrìst might be given to them that believe. THE SECOND PART. OBSB+RV.. IV. Scripture hath concludedall mankind under sin, hath shut us all up as prisoners under condemnation. Here I have nothing to do, but to cite several texts of scripture, some of which have been before mentioned, to prove that no man hath perfectly fulfilled the demands of the law, and consequently, that all mankind lie under a sentence of condemnation, according to the law of God. James iii. 2. For in many things we offend all. And chap. ii. 10. Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yetoffend in onepoint, he is guilty of all, because he dishonours that authority which hàth enacted all. Rom. ii. 9, 10. Tribula- lotion and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth evil. And chap. iii. 9,10, 19, 20, 23. Arewe better than they ! No, inno wise ; for we have before provedhoth Jewsand Gentiles, that they areall under sin, as it is written, there is none righteous, no, not ones Now, we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to then who are under the late, that every mouth may be stopped, andall the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds ofthe law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight,for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. Gal. iii. 10, 11. Cursed is every one that continueth not in allthings which arewrit- ten in the book ofthe law, todo them'. But that no man isjustz ied by the law in the sight of .God, it is evident; for thejust shall live by faith. Remark.Here by the way_we may take notice, what is condemnation, and what is,justification by the law of God.. It is the sentence of God as it stands in the written law, or in the law_ of nature, pronouncing the creature, whetherhe be righteous or guilty, according to such diffèrent characters which are found upon him. It is not any new,act put forth by God himselftoward his creatures, but the constant sentenceaf his own law; declaring such a person righteous according to his performance of the law,
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