A Goodly Heritage

 I would suggest the importance of a complete ministration of the Gospel. This would include three points suited to the complex character of man. There is doctrine for the head, experience for the heart, practice for the life and conversation. Take one or two of these things separately, and what a poor, starving, ineffective Ministration it is! What are doctrines without experience, but dry, abstract notions? What are they without practice, but Antinomian ungodliness? What, again, is experience without doctrine? It is a religion of feeling; a religion of delusion; fostered by excitement, instead of connected with principle; a mere ignis fatuus, 1 instead of the “light of life;” inducing a spiritual “confidence in the flesh,” instead of a “rejoicing in Christ Jesus.” What is experience without practice? It shows only the power of impulse, instead of permanent habit, and leaves the man the wretched victim of his own delusions. Thus, again, what is practice without doctrine, but “th...

"Do we make void the law through faith?God forbid  Yea we establish the law " Romans 3 31 The faith or doctrine of the Gospel establishes the law in its covenant form , exhibiting a Divine Suretyship of obedience to the law , as the price for sanctification ; and in its directive form ,- inculcating practical obligations upon a stronger foundation , and fulfilling them by the power of an heavenly life , and the impulse of evangelical motives . Thus the offices of Christ delightfully combine . As our Surety , He delivers us from the curse of the law . As our King , He brings us under its rule . This Scriptural faith saves us from its condemnation , and enables us for its requirements . Take away this principle , and we are under the full penalty of the broken law ; nor is there is any root , on which to engraft a corrupt tree , that it might bring forth good fruit .               Thus also , the grace of the Gospel "establishes the law" in its tw...