Chapter 6, Dead to the Law before we can Live to God

"No man can live to God, no man can perform acceptable obedience, while alive to the law, because he has not vital union with Christ. While alive to the law, we are in unbelief. While in unbelief, we are in our natural state; but, while in our natural state, we are enemies to God and children of wrath; and consequently, have no vital union with Christ. . . . Without me: without a union with me, . . . ye can do nothing. Ye can neither resist temptation successfully nor perform duty acceptably; ye can bear no fruit to the glory of God. . . . As long, therefore, as persons continue in a state of alienation from Jesus Christ, they with all their performances are like a broken, withered branch, fit only to be cast into the fire and consumed from the earth. . . . Now, as it is the province of that sacred agent to enlighten the dark understanding by leading into all the truth, so it is only by his assistance we can perform that which is good or have the least inclination so to do. According to that saying, 'For it is God who worketh in you, both to will and to do, of his good pleasure.' "

This is an excerpt from chapter VI in The Death of Legal Hope. This book along with The Reign of Grace, both by by Abraham Booth are contained in The Works of Abraham Booth, Volume 2, edited by Zachary Williams.

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