When it is fet forth in the heart of Chrift, who is our Mercy-feat; and kept there, as the two tables of it were in the ark of old, never more to arrest them who put their trust under the fhadow of Chrift Jefus, who is the end of the law for righteousness to all that believe.

Again, It is lawfully handled when it is proved that the end of the commandment is charity; that love is the fulfilling of the law; and that all those who have laid hold on eternal life, in whofe heart the love of God is fhed abroad, and to whofe faith the righteousness of Chrift is imputed, that the RIGHTE OUSNESS of the law is fulfilled in them, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

If a man fpeak, let him fpeak as the oracles of God, faith the Spirit; and I will leave you to judge whether the Law be not lawfully handled in this letter, and whether I have not spoken in it agreeable to the oracles of God: and if, upon examination, you find I have, then in future use all the lumber that you may rummage up, against the world, the flesh, and the devil; and leave me and my oddities to ftand or fall to my own Mafter. There is plenty of finners at Cranbrook to level your difcourfes at, without fpouting or bending your tongue (for lies) at me; especially when you knew I was not present to anfwer for myfelf. If you will preach a discourse, and allow me to be present, I shall have no objection to come down; and, if I cannot put you to shame, you fhall put me to it. I have done nothing against

the truth, nor have I corrupted the word. Let us fee if you can say the same.

Your text is

"The law is good if a man use it lawfully.” First, You endeavoured to prove, "Who they were "that used it lawfully. The unbeliever could not. Ergo, it must be the believer."

"The believer having no more to do with the law " than a woman with a dead husband, is black Anti"nomianism."

"A non-entity may be a rule as foon as love." "Faith is a hand, an eye, a leg-Ergo, no rule." "The law is perfect; therefore perpetual and "everlasting."

"Angels are under it."

Is this fpeaking as the oracles of God? Let us try it by the law and the teftimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

"The unbeliever cannot ufe the law lawfully. "Ergo, it must be the believer."

This, Sir, was as crafty a beginning as you could make. It was a cunning ftep to put the unbeliever quite out of the question; and then to introduce the believer, as the only person that could make a lawful ufe of the law, for this had the face of truth, and carried a very fair fhow with it; and, doubtless, this was as wife a courfe as you could steer to give your text a deceitful bandling, in order to blacken your antagonist, and ftumble the weak.

But,

But, though the context did not answer your end, it will answer mine, and therefore I fhall produce it; and, without applying the words to unbelievers without restriction, I fhall let them speak to fufpected teachers, for to them they are directed, and especially to unbelieving, or faithless preachers, who run before they are fent.

"Timothy-As I befought thee to abide still at Ephefus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou "mightest charge fome that they teach no other doc«trine; neither give heed to fables, and endless geneaogies, which, minister questions rather than godly edifying which is in faith: fo do. " of the commandment is charity, out of a pure "heart, and of a good confcience, and of faith "unfeigned; from which fome having fwerved, [or "not aimed at] have turned afide to vain jangling;

Now the end

defiring to be teachers of the law, understanding "neither what they fay nor whereof they affirm. "But we know that the Law is good, if a man use it "lawfully. Knowing this, that the Law is not made " for a righteous man, but for the lawless and dif "obedient." 1 Tim. Chap. i.

If you had handled this context faithfully, and levelled its force against ministers of the letter, and spoken from your text, as the oracles of God, against fuch men, it would have established my doctrine, and faved you the trouble of making application, for every new-born babe in the audience might have replied-Thou art the man. But applying it to private

private believers instead of public preachers; and ufing it as their only rule of life, instead of using it as a charge to vain janglers, (who have fwerved from the faith) was the only method you could adopt in order to expofe your antagonist to contempt; and it is a method that shall one day or other expofe you to it.

The end of the commandment is charity, out of a pure heart, a good confcience, and of faith unfeigned. He who is bleffed with this mystery, holds it faft, enjoys it, and preaches it; is the real faint, and true fervant of Chrift; and fuch a fervant is to charge fufpected perfons, that they preach no other doctrine; and they who fwerve, or aim not at this, are those that turn afide to vain jangling; novices, who defire to be teachers of the Law, understanding neither what they fay nor whereof they affirm.

The Law is good if a man ufe it lawfully. Let us fee the lawful ufe that you have made of it. "The "unbeliever," you fay, "cannot ufe it lawfully." True: but, if you had made a lawful use of it, you fhould have levelled all its contents at his head, for to him it belongs-" Knowing," fays Paul, "that the law is made for the lawlefs and difobe"dient." But you levelled all the weighty matters that you brought from it at me, who am a believer; for I can fhew you my faith by my works, and the Law is not made for a righteous man. If the unbeliever cannot make a lawful ufe of it, ergo, are you not that unbeliever, and, through ignorance,

have handled it unlawfully? And, if fo, ergo, Who

fet fuch a novice at it?
to pervert the text knowingly, your fin is the greater;
and fuch walking in craftinefs will make fad work
for confcience another day. If to do as we would
be done by, be the law and the prophets; pervert-
ing the Scriptures, to injure the juft in the work of
the Lord, can be no branch of that law. Ergo, Who,
then, is the Antinomian? I, who have levelled the
Law's force at the finner; or you, who have used it
to flander the righteous?

But, if malice led
But, if malice led you thus

"The believer having no more to do with the "law than a woman with a dead husband, is black "Antinomianifm." If it be, I think my own experience and the Bible furnished me with it.

"Know, you not, brethren, (for I speak to them "that know the law) how that the law hath domi"nion over a man as long as he liveth? For the "woman which hath an hufband is bound by the "law to her husband fo long as he liveth; but if "the husband be dead, fhe is loofed from the law " of her husband. So then, if while her husband "liveth fhe be married to another man, the hall "be called an adulterefs: but, if her husband be "dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no "adulterefs, though the be married to another man. "Wherefore, ye alfo are become dead to the law by "the body of Chrift [ye were crucified with him,. ❝ and died in him,] that ye fhould be married to

another, even to him who is raifed from the dead,

"that