Now then the law condemns no more him that believes before God; for
all its demands are answered, all its curses are swallowed up in the
death and curse Christ underwent.
OBJECTION. But reason saith, "Since personal sin brought the death,
surely personal obedience must bring us life and glory."
ANSWER. True, reason saith so, and so doth the law itself, Rom.
10:5; but God we know is above them both, and he in the covenant of
grace saith otherwise, to wit, "That if thou shalt confess with thy
mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thy heart that God hath
raised hint from the dead, thou shalt be saved."
Let reason then hold its tongue; yea, let the law with all its
wisdom subject itself to him that made it; let it look for sin where
God hath laid it; let it approve the righteousness which God
approveth: yea, though it be not that of the law, but that by faith
of Jesus Christ.
God hath made him our righteousness; God hath made him our sin; God
hath made him our curse; God hath made him our blessing: methinks
this word, God hath made it so, should silence all the world.
I shall leave the obstinate where I found him, and shall say to him
that is willing to be saved, "Sinner, thou hast the advantage of thy
neighbor, not only because thou art willing to live, but because
there are those that are willing thou shouldst, to wit, those unto
whom the issues of death belong; and they are the Father and the
Son, to whom be glory with the blessed Spirit of grace.
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