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THE LAW ESTABLISHED THRO' FAITH.

iii. 31.

''Do we then make void the law thro' faith? God forbid! Yea, we establish the law.''

1. It has been shewn in the preceding discourse, which are the most usual ways of making void the law thro' faith: namely, first, The not preaching it at all, which effectually makes it all void at a stroke: and this under colour of preaching Christ and magnifying the gospel, tho' it be in truth, destroying both the one and the other: secondly, The teaching (whether directly or indirectly) that faith supersedes the necessity of holiness: that this is less necessary now, or a less degree of it necessary, than before Christ came: that it is less necessary to us, because we believe, than otherwise it would have been: or, that Christian liberty is a liberty from any kind or degree of holiness: (so perverting those great truths, that we are now under the co-*