mistake as to the matter in hand is as wide as the east from the
west; for therefore the law can do thee no good, because it is holy
and just; for what can he that has sinned expect from a law that is
holy and just? Naught but condemnation. "There is one that accuseth
you, even. Moses in whom ye trust."

Here is the poison; to set this law in the. room of a Mediator, as
those do who seek to stand just before God thereby. And then nothing
is so dishonorable to Christ, nor of so soul-destroying a nature as
the law; for that, thus placed, has not only power when souls are
deluded, but power to delude by its real holiness, the
understanding, conscience, and reason of a man; and by giving the
soul a semblance of heaven, to cause it to throw away Christ, grace,
and faith.

Alas, he who boasteth himself in the works of the law, he doth not
hear the law. When that speaks, it shakes mount Sinai, and writeth
death upon all faces, and makes the church itself cry out, A
Mediator! else we die.

The law out of Christ is terrible as a lion; the law in him is meek
as a lamb.

FAITHFUL. "So I went on my way up the hill. Now when I had got about
half-way up, I looked behind me and saw one coming after me swift as
the wind; so he overtook me just about the place where the settle
stands.

"So soon as the man overtook me, he was but a word and a blow; for
down he knocked me, and laid me for dead. But when I was a little