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Rh The baptized is still under the law, as the Jew, if he fulfil not the law, or fulfil it from fear only. Rom. vi. 14.

Under the malediction of the law, good never happens, because sin is committed either by doing evil, or by avoiding it only through fear. Gal. v. 28.

Moses, the prophets, the priests, and doctors of the law, are dead, save in that they have given any son unto God, seeing they have not effected, save only slaves unto fear. Mark xii. 19.

He who will fain approach God, must neither come unto him with brutish passions, nor be led by natural instinct, or by fear, like beasts, but by faith and love, as sons. Hebr. xii. 26. 1693.

Slavish fear does not represent God unto itself, but as a hard, imperious, unjust, untractable master. Luke xix. 21. 1693.

The goodness of God hath shortened the way unto salvation, by closing up the whole [matter] in faith and in prayers. Acts ii. 21.

Faith, the use, increase, and reward of faith, is all the gift of the pure liberality of God. Mark ix. 22.

God never afflicts the innocent, and afflictions always serve either to punish sin, or to purify the sinner. John, ix. 3.</li>

<li>Man for his own preservation may give himself a dispensation from that law which God founded for his advantage. Mark ii. 28.</li>

<li>The mark of the Christian Church is, that it is catholic, comprehending both all the angels of heaven, and all the elect, and the just of the earth and of all ages. Hebr. xii. 22, 23, 24.</li>

<li>What is the Church, but the assemblage of the sons of God, remaining in her bosom, adopted in Christ, subsisting in his person, redeemed with his blood, living in his spirit, acting through his grace, and awaiting the grace of the time to come? 2 Thess. i. 1, 2. 1693.</li>

<li>The Church, or the entire Christ, hath the incarnate Word as the head, but all the holy as members. 1 Tim. iii. 16.</li>

<li>The Church is one sole man, made up of many members, whereof Christ is the head, life, subsistence, and </li> </ol>