Do we then conclude thus, let us continue in sin, that the divine favour may be more fully display'd?

by no means. know ye not, that to whom ye subject your selves vassals at command, his vassals you are whom you thus obey; the vassals either of sin to destruction, or of obedience to justification?

thus, my brethren, the law is become dead with respect to you by the body of Christ; that you might be subject to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

for the words of the promise run thus, "at this time I will come, and Sara shall have a son."

thus some he pursues with his favours, and abandons others to their obduracy, according as he thinks fit.

nay, but, O man, who art thou, to raise a dust against heaven? shall the pitcher say to him that formed it, "why hast thou made me thus?"

For Moses describes the justice that was to be had by the law, thus : "the man who performeth the things here required, shall have life thereby."

for he that thus pays his allegiance to Christ, is acceptable to God, and approved of men.