e truth, yea,
and study earnestly how to object against any answers given from the
truth. Alas! thou meddlest to thine own hurt; thou art upon a way which
shall never yield thee any comfort, but keep thy soul from establishment,
as a wave tossed up and down! If ye believe not, but dispute, ye shall not
be established.

But I would speak a word to those that have believed, that have fled for
refuge to Christ. Oh! it concerns you most of all men to study to know
this condemnation that ye are delivered from, that ye may be thankful, and
may keep close within this city. I say, there is no man within the world
should have more thoughts, more deep and earnest meditations on the curse
and wrath of God, than those who are delivered from them through Christ;
and my reason is, that ye may know how great a salvation ye have received,
how great a condemnation ye have escaped, and may henceforth walk as those
who are bought with a price. Your creation makes you not your own, but
his, because he gave that being. But your redemption should make you twice
more his, and not your own, because, when that being was worse than if it
had not been at all, he made it over again. So ye are twice his: first, he
made you with a word, but now he hath bought you with a price, and that a
dear price,--his blood. Again, the keeping this curse always in your view
and sight and application of it unto your sins, will make much employment
for Christ. O how will ye often flee into that city! I think they are the
greatest enemies of Jesus Christ, and his grace, who would have a believer
have no more use of the law. I know not who can use the law if he do it
not. I know not who can apply it unto Christ, the end of it, but he.
Certainly he hath not only use of the commands as a rule of obedience, but
the curse also, not to make him fear again unto bondage; no, no, but to
make him see always the more necessity of Jesus Christ, that he may take
up house in him, and dwell in him.

Sermon III.

Verse 1.--"Who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."

It is difficult to determine which of these is the greatest privilege of a
Christian,--that he is delivered from condemnation, or that he is made to
walk according to the Spirit, and made a new creature; whether we owe more
to Christ for our justification, or sanctification: for he is made both to
us: but it is more necessary to conjoin them together, than to compare
them with each other. The