least of them in the smallest possible degree. Now, it is manifest that we have broken them in ten thou- sand instances, and are consequently obnoxious to its heaviest judgments: and yet we say to those who believe in Christ, that they have nothing to fear ; for that " there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus." Here, then, we seem to set aside the law altogether, both in its commanding and con- demning power. But the truth is, that we establish the law in both respects : for the Gospel declares, that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Creator of heaven and earth, was " made of a woman, made under the law," on purpose that, in his own person, he might fulfil the law which we had broken, and endure the penalties which we had incurred ; that so not a jot or tittle should pass from the law, till the whole of it, in every possible view, should be fulfilled. This work he both undertook and executed. He obeyed the law, in its utmost possible extent; and he en- dured the wrath due to the sins of the whole world. Now, consider how greatly the law was honoured by this. It would have been honoured, if all man- kind had obeyed it : and it would also have been honoured, if they had all been consigned over to the punishment they had merited by their disobedience. In either case, its authority would have been dis- played and vindicated. But when the Lawgiver himself, the Mighty God, becomes a man, and puts himself under its authority, and obeys all its pre- cepts, and suffers all its penalties, and does this on purpose that the law may be honoured, and that the salvation of man may be rendered compatible with its demands, this puts an honour upon the law which it would never have obtained by any other means, and must for ever render it glorious in the eyes of the whole intelligent creation.
But it is not in the Lord Jesus Christ alone, as our Head and Representative, that the law is honoured : the Gospel engages that every sinner who is in- terested in its provisions shall himself also honour the law in his own person. For every one, at the