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 iny 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.

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 he is freed by faith in Christ. Yet
he is to have regard thereto, and is to count it holy, just, and
good; which that he may do, he is always, whenever he seeth or
regards it, to remember that he who giveth it to us is MERCIFUL,
GRACIOUS, LONG-SUFFERING, and ABUNDANT IN GOODNESS AND TRUTH.

Here thou mayst say, O law, thou mayst roar against sin, but thou
canst not reach me; thou mayst curse and condemn, but not MY SOUL;
for I have a righteous Jesus, a holy Jesus, a soul-saving Jesus, and
he hath delivered me from thy threats, thy curses, thy
condemnations; I am out of thy reach and out of thy bounds; I am
brought into another covenant, under better promises of life and
salvation, free promises to comfort me without my merit, even
through the blood of Jesus, the satisfaction given to God for me by