is by faith in Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe;
for there is no difference.

6. Wherefore, whenever thou who believest in Jesus, dost hear the law
in its thundering and lightning fits, as if it would burn up heaven and
earth, then say thou, I am freed from this law, these thunderings have
nothing to do with my soul; nay, even this law, while it thus thunders
and roars, it doth both allow and approve of my righteousness. I know
that Hagar would sometimes be domineering and high, even in Sarah's
house, and against her; but this she is not to be suffered to do, nay,
though Sarah herself be barren; wherefore, serve it also as Sarah
served her, and expel her out from thy house. My meaning is, when this
law with its thundering threatenings doth attempt to lay hold on thy
conscience, shut it out with a promise of grace; cry, The inn is taken
up already; the Lord Jesus is here entertained, and here is no room for
the law. Indeed, if it will be content with being my informer, and so
lovingly leave off to judge me, I will be content, it shall be in my
sight, I will also delight therein; but otherwise, I being now made
upright without it, and that too with that righteousness which this law
speaks well of and approveth, I may not, will not, cannot dare not make
it my Saviour and judge, nor suffer it to set up its government in my
conscience; for by so doing, I fall from grace, and Christ Jesus doth
profit me nothing.

7. Thus, therefore, the soul that is married to him that is raised up
from the dead, both may and ought to deal with this law of God; yea, it
doth greatly dishonour its Lord and refuse its gospel privileges, if it
at any time otherwise doth, whatever it seeth or feels. "The law hath
power over the wife so long as her husband liveth, but if her husband
be dead she is freed from that law; so that she is no adulteress though