el, unless he preach the covenant of works; not because both concur to
the justification of a sinner, but because the knowledge of a man's own
lost condition under the one, presses him to flee to the other.

Now I say, Christ Jesus, or faith in him, is the scope and intention of
the law. It is the scope and intention of the lawgiver, in giving out the
law. God hath never given a command or curse since Adam's fall, but for
this end, to bring sinners unto Christ. This is the end revealed, and
appointed by him in his word. This we shall clear from some texts of
scripture, because it is very material, Rom. v. 20, 21. It might be
questioned from the former words, since death hath reigned before Moses,
for sins against nature's light, what means the new entry of the written
law? What was the end of the promulgation of it on mount Sinai? He
answers, "the law entered that sin might abound;" that is, the world knew
not sin, the letters of nature's light were worn out and rusty; men
thought not of their miserable condition by nature, and did not charge
themselves before God; therefore a new edition and publication of the law
must be given, that all men may know how much they owe, and how they were
guilty in a thousand things they never dreamed of. But wherefore serves
this? That grace might superabound where sin had abounded. The Lord would
have sin abounding in men's knowledge, and their charge to be great and
weighty, that God's pardoning grace might be more conspicuous, and the
discharge more sweet. We also learn, (Gal. iii. 19.) that the same
question was moved, "Wherefore then serves the law? Seeing the covenant of
grace was preached to Abraham, what meant the publishing of a covenant of
works upon mount Sinai?" He answers, "It was added because of
transgression, till the seed should come, to whom the promise was made;"
and as it is said, Rom. v. 13, "For until the law sin was in the world."
It abounded in all places of the world before the law came; but men did
not impute it unto themselves, nor condemn themselves as guilty. Therefore
the law was added to discover many hidden transgressions, and to show them
the curse they deserved. Now this law is not against the promise or
covenant of grace, (ver. 21.) which it behoved to be if it were not given
of intention to drive men to Christ. But the 22d verse speaks out clearly
the end of it, "the scripture hath concluded all men under sin," and under
the curse both. To what end? Tha