she be married to another man." Indeed, so long as thou art alive to
sin, and to thy righteousness which is of the law, so long thou hast
them for thy husband, and they must reign over thee; but when once they
are become dead unto thee--as they then most certainly will when thou
closest with the Lord Jesus Christ--then, I say, thy former husbands
have no more to meddle with thee; thou art freed from their law. Set
the case: A woman be cast into prison for a debt of hundreds of
pounds; if after this she marry, yea, though while she is in the
jailor's hand, in the same day that she is joined to her husband, her
debt is all become his; yea, and the law also that arrested and
imprisoned this woman, as freely tells her, go: she is freed, saith
Paul, from that; and so saith the law of this land.

The sum, then, of what hath been said is this--The Christian hath now
nothing to do with the law, as it thundereth and burneth on Sinai, or
as it bindeth the conscience to wrath and the displeasure of God for
sin; for from its thus appearing, it is freed by faith in Christ. Yet
it is to have regard thereto, and is to count it holy, just, and good;
which, that it may do, it is always, whenever it seeth or regards it,
to remember that he who giveth it to us "is merciful, gracious, long-
suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth," &c.




BUNYAN'S LAST SERMON--PREACHED JULY 1688.



"Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of