THE law is the chief and most pure resemblance of the justice and
holiness of the heavenly Majesty, and doth hold forth to all men the
sharpness and keenness of his wrath.

This is the rule and line and plummet whereby every act of every man
shall be measured; and he whose righteousness is not found every way
answerable to this law, which all will fall short of but they that
have the righteousness of God by faith in Jesus Christ, he must
perish.

The law is spiritual, I am carnal. Therefore every requirement is
rejected and rebelled against. Strike a steel against a flint, and
the fire flies about you. Strike the law against a carnal heart, and
sin appears, sin multiplies, sin rageth, sin is strengthened.

Sin seen in the glass of the law is a terrible thing; no man can
behold it and live. "When the commandment came, sin revived and I
died;" when it came from God to my conscience, as managed by an
almighty arm, then it slew me. And now is the time to confess sin,
because now a soul knows what it is, and sees what it is, both in
the nature and consequence of it.

He that is under the law is under the edge of the axe.

The proper work of the law is to slay the soul, and leave it dead,
in a helpless state.