Lectures on the Law and the Gospel

INTRODUCTION.

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In the autumn of the year 1831, the author delivered a course of lectures upon the Law and the Gospel, to the congregation of St. Paul's Church, Philadelphia, of which he was at that time the Rector. The Editor of a collection of works called the Christian Library, requested them for publication in the series of volumes which he was preparing for the press. Thus they were first printed in the year 1833. In the same year a second edition of them was printed, in a separate volThese were circulated and sold with a rapidity which was wholly unexpected. God was pleased to make them useful to the awakening and instruction of his children, to an extent, which has both astonished and humbled the writer. Many precious instances of conversion by their instructions through the divine power of God the Holy Ghost, have been brought to the knowledge of the author; for which he desires from his inmost soul to give the praise and glory to the God of all grace. Some of these have been of persons who are now preaching the blessed truths, which God has been pleased thus to reveal to them from his holy word. But these two editions have been for some years wholly dispensed abroad,—

and the writer has been repeatedly urged to publish another mlition The ample reason which has delayed it, has been the des pening conviction in his mind of the importance of the truths which are here taught, and his unwillingness to print the Touturer again, without such a revision and enlargement of thom, as he could find no time to give. This he has at last acsumpli hod, altor much delay, and yet he feels, as he sends out the present work, more deeply humbled than before, with a congenomes of de unworthiness, and a reverence for the great one frule which he has attempted to proclaim. He bolowane thing foulę to contain the Glorious Gospel of the Bless

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CONTENTS.

LECTURES ON THE LAW.

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LECTURE I.-The importance of an accurate knowledge
of the Divine Law,
LECT. II.-The practical influence of a knowledge of
the Law,

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LECT. III.-The Spirituality of the Law,
LECT. IV. The present use of the Law,
LECT. V.―The convincing power of the Law,
LECT. VI.—The condemning power of the Law,
LECT. VII.-The Law a guide to Christ,
LECT. VIII.-Christ, the Righteousness of the Law,
LECT. IX.-The Law, the Christian's Rule of Life,
LECT. X.-The worth of Man's Obedience to the Law, 140
LECT. XI.-The Salvation of the Gospel confirming
Man's Obedience to the Law,