A man may appeal from the law to the throne, from Moses to
Christ---from him that spoke on earth to him that speaks from
heaven; but from heaven to earth, from Christ to Moses, none can
appeal. Acts 3: 22, 23.
Tell me, you that desire to mingle the law and the gospel together,
and to make of both one and the same gospel of Christ, did you ever
see yourselves undone and lost, unless the righteousness, blood,
death, resurrection, and intercession of that man Christ Jesus in
his own person, were imputed to you; and until you could by faith
own it as done for you, and counted yours by imputation? Yea, or no?
Nay, rather, have you not set up your consciences and the law, and
counted your obedience to them better and of more value than the
obedience of the Son of Mary without you to be imputed to you? And
if so, it is because you have not been savingly convinced by the
Spirit of Christ of the sin of unbelief.
I would riot be mistaken; I do not say that the Spirit of Christ
gives the least liberty to sin; God forbid; but its convictions are
of a more saving and refreshing nature than the convictions of the
law, and do more constrain the soul to holiness than that: the law
saying, Work for life; the Spirit saying, Now to him that worketh
not (for life,) but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly,
his faith is counted for righteousness.
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