I'd thus the promis'd grace forfake,
Nor Jefus for my Saviour take;
Yea, thus would dreadfully prefume,
And work mine own eternal doom.
Prefumption cannot rife more high,
I'd make the truth of God a lie:
The God of truth a liar too;

What more mischief could Satan do?
Why, I'd difcredit God's record
Concerning Jefus Chrift the Lord,
His glorious and eternal Son,
Whofe blood has life eternal won.
In him, fays God, this life I give,
In him fhall therefore men believe,
My gift embracing in their arms:
None fhall be fav'd on other terms.
Vain man muft ftoop and freely take,
Or elfe embrace a burning lake:
Proud nature muft fubmit to grace,
And to the divine righteoufness.
In vain on works our hope is built,
Our actions nothing are but guilt:
The beft obedience of our own
Dare not appear before his throne.
What finite worm can bear the load,
The fury of an angry God?

What mortal vigour can withstand
The vengeance of his lifted hand?
The law can never fave us now,
To damn is all that it can do.
Heav'n cafts all righteoufnefs of ours;
The law of works is out of doors.
No merit, money, more or lefs,
Can buy the gift of righteoufnefs.

O may I take what heav'n does give :
JEHOVAH help me to believe;
And in that righteoufnefs to truft,
Which only makes a finner juft.
And then, the truth of faith to prove,
Lord, make my faith to work by love.

TH

HOUGH law commands and gofpel-grace
Agree in mutual joint embrace a

Yet law and gofpel in a fhock

Can never draw an equal yoke b.

a Rom. iii. 31. Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. Gal. iii. 21. Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, ve rily righteoufnefs fhould have been by the law..

6 Pfal. cxxx. 3. 4. If thou, Lord, shouldst mark iniquities: O Lord, who fhall ftand? But there is forgivenefs with thee; that thou mayeft be feared. v. 7, 8. Let Ifrael hope in the Lord: for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is

The law of works, the law of grace,
Can't ftand together in one place;
The brighter fcene deftroys the dark,
As Dagon fell before the ark c.

They harmonize like marry'd pairs d,
Yet are at odd's, and keep not fquares e:

plenteous redemption. And he fhall redeem Ifrael from all his iniquities. And cxliii. 2, O Lord, enter not into judgment with thy fervant: for in thy fight fhall no man living be juftified. v. 8. Caufe me to hear thy loving kindness in the morning, for in thee do I trust cause me to know the way wherein I fhould walk, for I lift up my foul unto thee

for

c Rom. vi. 14, 15. Sin fhall not have dominion over you: ye are not under the law, but under grace. What then? fhall we fin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Chap. vii. 4, 5, 6. Wherefore, my brethren, ye alfo are become dead to the law, by the body of Chrift: that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of fin which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we fhould ferve in newness of Spirit, and not in the oldnefs of the letter. 2 Cor. iii. 7-10. But if the ministration of death written and ingraven in ftones, was glorious, so that the children of Ifrael could not ftedfaftly behold the face of Mofes, for the glory of his countenance, which glory was to be done away; how fhall not the miniftration of the Spirit, be rather glorious? For if the mini ftration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the miniftration of righteoufnefs exceed in glory. For even that which was made glorious, had no glory in this refpect, by reafon of the glory that excelleth.

d Gal. iii. 24. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Chrift, that we might be juftified by faith.

e Rom. xi. 6. and if [election be] by grace, then it is no more of works: otherwife grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwife work is no more work.

As mercy stands from merit far,
The letter and the spirit jar f.

The law does gospel-comforts harm,
The gospel breaks the legal arm g;
Yet both exalt each other's horn,
And garland's bring their heads t' adorn b.
I through the law am dead to it,
To legal works and felf-conceit i;
Yet, lo! through gospel-grace I live,
And to the law due honour give k.
The law great room for boafting makes,
But grace my pride and boafting breaks /;

f 2 Cor. iii. 6. The letter killeth, but the fpirit giveth life. g Heb. fi. 15. And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime fubject to bondage. Phil. i. 7, 8, 9. But what things were gain to me, thofe I counted lofs for Chrift. Yea, doubtlefs, and I count all things but lofs, for the excellency of the knowledge of Chrift Jefus my Lord: for whom I have fuffered the lofs of all things, and do count them but dung that I may win Chrift, and be found in him, not having mine own righteoufnefs, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Chrift, the righteoufness which is of God by faith.

h Gal. ii. 19. For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

i Rom vii. 6. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of fpirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. v. 9. For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, fin revived, and I died.

k Rom. vii. 4. Wherefore, my brethren, ye alfo are become dead to the law by the body of Chrift; that ye should be mar ried to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we fhould bring forth fruit unto God. And x. 4. Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

Rom. iii 27. Where is boafting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay; but by the law of faith.

Yet all my boafts the law does kill m.
And grace makes room to boast my fill n.
The gofpel makes me keep the law o,
Yet from its painful service drawp:
It does all law demands fulfil q,
Yet make them wholly void and null r.
The gospel gives me no command ƒ,
Yet by obeying it I ftand s.

mRom. iii. 19. Now we know that what things foever the law faith, it faith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world

guilty before God.

may become

n 1 Cor. i. 29, 30, 31. That no fleth fhould glory in his prefence. But of him are ye in Chrift Jefus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteoufnels, and fanctification and redemption that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

• Titus ii. 11, 12. For the grace of God that bringeth falvation hath appeared to all men; teaching us, that denying ungodliness, and worldly Jufts, we fhould live foberly, righte oufly, and godly in this prefent world.

p Gal. v. t. Stand faft therefore in the liberty wherewith

Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

q Rom. viii. 3, 4. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, fending his own Son, in the likness of finful flesh, and for fin condemned fin in the flesh that the righteoufnefs of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

r Rom, vi. 14. Sin fhall not have dominion over you : for ye are not under the law, but under grace. Gal. iv. 4, 5. But when the fulness of the time was come, God fent forth his Son made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law.

Gal iii. 8. And the scripture foreseeing that God would juftify the Heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, faying, In thee fhall all nations be bleffed.

s Mark xvi. 16. He that believeth and is baptized, fhall be faved.