Review of Chap I of The Death of Legal Hope - What Law are we dead to?

Abraham Booth, in the first chapter of The Death of Legal Hope, indicates what Law that the Apostle is dead to. Here's what he says:

"That it is the moral law which Paul intends appears from the opposition there is between the works of that concerning which he speaks and the faith of Jesus . . . Now, that law and its works, to which the faith of Christ is directly opposed, must be the moral law, because the ceremonial institutes contained a principal part of the gospel of the ancient church. Christ in his person and offices, Christ in his grace and work, was prefigured and signified by them. . . . Yes, believer, that very Jesus whom you love and adore, that very grace in which you trust and rejoice, were exhibited in typical rites as the hope of guilty sinners and as the joy of enlightened saints. Consequently, the ceremonial law cannot be considered as placed in contrast by the apostle to Christ, and to faith in him."

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