till Christ shall be
all in all. The command shall put him to Jesus, and Christ shall lead him
back again, under a new notion, to his old master.

We may consider in the text a twofold relation that faith stands in, the
relation of an end, and of a cause. Faith hath the relation of an end unto
the commandment, of a cause unto a good conscience and a pure heart, and
love, for these are said to be out of faith, which notes this dependence
of a cause and fountain. The command is for faith, and a pure heart and
love are from faith. We shall use no other division but consider the
method of these effects that flow from faith. There is an order of
emanation and dependence. There is a chain here. The first link nearest
faith is a good conscience. The second link is a pure heart. The third is
love, the hand follows the heart, and the heart follows the conscience.

We need not be subtile in seeking our purpose on these words, we think
there is more in the plain words than we can speak of. We shall only
resolve the verse in these propositions, without more observations.
_First_, Faith in Jesus Christ is the end of the commandment, or law.
_Secondly_, There is a faith feigned, and a faith unfeigned, a true and a
false faith. _Thirdly_, Unfeigned faith gives the answer of a good
conscience. _Fourthly_, Faith purging the conscience, purifies the heart.
_Fifthly_, Faith purifying the heart, works by love. Here then is the
substance of all the gospel, and all this makes up an entire complete end.
Faith purifying the heart, purging the conscience, and working by love, is
the end of the commandment.

_First_, The end of the commandment or law (for a part is put for the
whole) is faith in Christ or Jesus Christ apprehended by faith, which is
all one. For ye cannot abstract faith from Christ, for the whole gospel is
a shadow without him. Grace and glory is but a beam of the Sun of
righteousness, that if ye come between it and Christ, it evanishes
presently, Rom. x. 4, "Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to
every one that believes." And if Christ be the end of the law, then faith
is the end of it, because faith is the profession of Christ, and union
with him. But consider, I. That the end is not taken here for the
consumption or destruction of a thing. Christ is not the end of the law in
that sense, though indeed, if the Antinomian speak ingenuously, his sense
would be this, Christ makes an end of the law, contrary to Christ's