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I answer, "But there are not two ways to heaven: there is but one
'new and living way which Christ hath consecrated for us through the
veil, that is to say, his flesh;' and besides that one, there is no
more. Heb. 10: 19-24. Why then dost thou talk of two strings to thy
bow?"
Mercy then is to be found alone in Jesus Christ. Again, the
righteousness of the law is to be obtained only by faith of Jesus
Christ; that is, in the Son of God is the righteousness of the law
to be found; for he, by his obedience to his Father, is become the
end of the law for righteousness. And for the sake of his legal
righteousness---which is also called the righteousness of God,
because it was God in the flesh of the Lord Jesus that did
accomplish it---are mercy and grace from God extended to whomsoever
dependeth by faith upon God, by this righteousness of Jesus, for
them.
He that is dark as touching the scope, intents, and nature of the
law, is also dark as to the scope, nature, and glory of the gospel.
I must confess it is a wonderful mysterious thing, and he had need
have a wiser spirit than his own that can rightly set these two
covenants in their right places, that when he speaks of the one he
doth not jostle the other out of its place. O, to be so well
enlightened as to speak of the one, that is the law, for to magnify
the gospel---and also to speak of the gospel so as to establish and
yet not to idolize the law, nor any particulars thereof---it is
rare; and to be heard and found but in very few men's breasts.
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