Chapter 3 of the Death of Legal Hope

"Thus, it was with Paul, after all his sincerity and all his obedience before conversion; and thus, it is with every sinner who is brought to the knowledge of the true God and perceives the purity of the divine law; for no man beholds the grace of the gospel who does not acknowledge the equity of the law. We shall never consider salvation as divinely free, till we confess our condemnation to be entirely just. But when the purity of the Lawgiver is seen in the flaming holiness of his law; when it denounces its curse against the sinner and his own conscience, being stung with guilt, confirms the dreadful sentence, and with an awful emphasis replies, “Thou art the man;” then the relief provided by grace and revealed in the gospel is beheld with an ardent desire; is embraced with exuberant joy. Thus, by the agency of the Holy Spirit, the law subserves the gracious design of the gospel. Yes, the righteousness and terror of legal sanction are happily useful, to illustrate the freeness and to exhibit the sovereignty of saving grace."

Excerpt is taken from the chapter entitled, "Believers Dead to the Law, Considered as a Covenant" from the book - The Works of Abraham Booth, Volume 2.

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