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* / This1is not an Afertion,that any Man doth keep the whole Law ſo as-to offend but in one point, but a Suppoſition that if, or ad- mitting ſuch a one were. m All the reſt of the Law, that one point only of the whole being excepted. - n Slip, or trip, or ſtum- ble at; it ſeems to fignihe the leaſt failing in any point of the Law, o Guilty of the Breach, and obnoxious to the Puniſhment of all ; not diſtributively, or ſeparately, as if he tranſgrefled every Precept diſtin&ly ; but 1. conjunRtively or comparatively, he is guilty of nct keeping the whole Law, though not of breaking each particular Command ; he breaks the whole Law, though not the whole of the Law; as he that wounds a Man's Arm, wounds the whoſe Man, though not the whole of the Man ; he that breaks one Link, breaks the whole Chain, and he that fails in one Mufical Note, ſpoils the whole Harmony. 2. He fins againſt Charity, which is the tumm ot the Law, and upon which all the Commands depend ; and fo though he keep moſt of them, as to the Subſtance, yet he keeps none of them in a right manner, becauſe none out of Love, which ſhouid be the Principle out of which he obſerves all of them. 3. He ins azainſt the Authority of the whole Law, which is the ſame in cve- ry Command. 4. He is liable to the ſame Puniſhment, though not the ſame degree of it, as if he had broke all the Commandments, Gal. 3. 10. and his keeping moſt, cannot exempt- him from the Puniſhment due for the Breach of that one ; This he ſpeaks either in oppoſition to the Phariſees among the Fews, who thought them- ſelves righteous if they kept moſt of the Law, though in ſome things they came ſhort ; or rather againſt Hypocrites among Chrt- ſlians, who would pick and chuſe Duties, obey ſome Commands, and neglet others ; whereas no Obedience to God is right, but that which is impartial, and reſpets all the Commands, Pf. 119. 6, #147. 5. 19.
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' Judged / by the* lawgof liberty 7.
ry The Apoſtle concluding his Diſcourſe about reſpe&ing Perſons,
' which contiſted both in their Words and Atons ; he direfts them how to govern themſelves in both. { Viz, For both your Words and Ations, and that, not only in your own Conſciences at preſent, but at God's Tribunal hereafter. # The Goſpel ; of the Liberty of which it is one Branch, that theſe differences among Men, jof Jew and Gentile, Bond and Free, Circymciſed, and Uncircumciled, gyc. are taken awav, As 10. 28, Gal. 3. 28. Col. 3. 11. againſt this Law of Liberty you fin, if you reſpe& Perfons, and then may well' fear to be judged by it; asit takes away differences of Perſons now, ſo it will make none at laſt, but will be as impartial in its Judgment
as 1t 15 1n 1ts Commands,
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victorious in relation to thoſe that ſhew Mercy, to whom the Pre miſe of obtaining Mercy is made, Matth. 5. 79. Or rathcr, 2. The Mercy of Men, #. e. of thole that deal mercifully with others ;- their Mercy having the Mercy and Promiſe of God on its fice, need not fear, but rather may rejoyce, and as it were glory againſt Judg- ment, as not being like to go againſt chem. Otje&. Is not this to make ſome ground ot glorying to be in Men themlclyes, contrary to Pſal. 143. 2 Rom. 4. 2? Anſw. Mercy in Believers 15 an Evidence of their Intereſt in God's Mercy, which prevails on their behalf againſt his Juſtice; and fo its. rejoycing againit Judgment 1s not againit it, as overcome by it ſelf, but by God's Mercy, Thus both Senſes are included. _ :
14 * What doth zt profit, a my brethren, though a man lay 6 he hath faith c, and have nor works d © can faith lave hime ?