A Goodly Heritage

"That we may further conceive aright the moral law, we must make a difference between it and the gospel. For the gospel is that part of the word which  promises  righteousness and life everlasting to all that believe in Christ. The difference between them stands especially in five things. First, the law is natural, and was in man's nature before the fall; but the gospel is spiritual, revealed after the fall, in the covenant of grace. Second, the law sets forth God's justice, in rigor, without mercy; but the gospel sets out justice and mercy, united in Christ. Third, the law requires a perfect righteousness within us; but the gospel reveals our acceptance with God by imputed righteousness. Fourth, the law threatens judgements without mercy, and therefore is called the ministry of condemnation, and of death; but the gospel shows mercy to man's sin, in and by Christ, if we repent and believe. Last, the law promises life to the worker and doer of it, ...

The whole Duty of Man, Containing a PRACTICAL TABLE of the TEN COMMANDMENTS: Wherein the Sins forbidden, and the Duties commanded, or implied are clearly discovered I. The first Commandment. THou shalt have no other Gods before me. In which Commandment note these two Affirmatives. 1. That we must acknowledge God. 2. We must acknowledge no other God but him. And the love required from this God is, To hear his Word willingly, to speak and think of him frequent­ly, and to do his will chearfully, to yield up body and soul for his Cause, to de­light in his presence, and to bewail his absence, to love and hate what he doth, and to draw others to that love, to rest upon his revealed Counsels, and to call upon his name with affiance. The Negative part of this Commandment, is, to acknowledge none other than the true God, where note these things forbidden; Ignorance of this God and of his will; Atheism, denying God, or his Attributes, of Justice, Wisdom, Providence, Presence, &...