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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	law_n	sin_n	transgression_n	3,416	5	11.8881	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61648	The best interest, or, A treatise of a saving interest in Christ wherein is shewn how a man may know that he hath a saving interst in Christ, how they that have not yet an interest in Christ may get a saving interest in him ... with several other practical cases / by Owen Stockton ...	Stockton, Owen, 1630-1680.	1682 (1682)	Wing S5696; ESTC R37593	197,314	400

with Abraham and his Seed 430 years before the giving the law by Moses And therefore the law which given 430 years after God had revealed it to Abraham that he would justifie and save him and his Seed through Faith in Christ could not make void that way of righteousness and life which God had before confirmed by Covenant to Abraham and his Seed As you may see Gal. 3.6 7 8 9 11 16 17 18. 2. The law when given by Moses found man so weakned by the fall of Adam that it could not bring man to righteousness and life but notwithstanding the giving the law man would have perished Eternally had not God sent his Son Jesus Christ to dye for our sins Rom. 8.3 Gal. 3.21 But for what end then was the law given if not to a Covenant of life A. 1. To bring us to the knowledge of our sin and misery Rom. 3.20 By the law is the knowledge of sin Gal. 3.19 Wherefore then serveth the law It was added because of Transgressions 2. To be our School-Master to lead us to Christ that when we see we can't attain that Righteousness which the law requires we may seek for Justification and Salvation to Jesus Christ Gal. 3.24 The law was our School-Master to bring us unto Christ that we might be justified by Faith 3. The law was given to be a Rule of our lives to direct us how to carry our selves towards God and towards all men Prov. 6.23 The Commandment is a lamp and the law is light 3. Life and Righteousness is to be had in Christ and no where else but in and by Christ 1 Joh. 5.11 12. And this is the record that God hath given us Eternal Life and this Life is in his Son He that hath the Son hath Life and he that hath not the Son of God hath not Life And as Eternal Life is to be had in Christ so also is that Righteousness whereby we are justified and accepted in the sight of God to be had in Christ Isa 45.24 Surely shall one say in the Lord have I Righteousness and Strength Jer. 23.6 This is the name whereby he shall be called the Lord our Righteousness For the better understanding of this that the Righteousness whereby we are justified and accepted before God is not any works of Righteousness which we have done in Conformity to the law but the righteousness which Christ hath wrought for us let us consider these 3 or 4 things 1. All our own righteousnesses are full of imperfections and therefore cannot justifie us in the sight of God who is a God of pure eyes that cannot behold iniquity Isa 64.8 VVe are all as an unclean thing and all our Righteousnesses are as filthy rags The Holyest men that ever lived that have been full of good works have been afraid to appear before God in their own righteousness Phil. 3.9 And be found in him not having mine own Righteousness which is of the law 2. We not being able to bring unto God a righteousness of our own whereby we might be justified and accepted God provided a righteousness for us in and by his Son Jesus Christ whereby we might be justified and accepted in his sight 1 Cor. 1.30 Of him are ye in Christ Jesus who of God is made unto us Righteousness 2 Cor. 5.21 For he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the Righteousness of God in him 3. This righteousness of Christ by and upon the account of which we are accepted and justified in the sight of God is his Active and Passive Obedience His Active Obedience in fullfilling all that righteousness which the law required Rom. 5.19 As by one man's disobedience many were made sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made Righteous And his Passive Obedience whereby he suffered Death for our sins Rom. 5.9 Being justified by his blood It was by his being made a Sacrifice for our sins that we are made the righteousness of God in him 2 Cor. 5.20 4. This righteousness of Christ consisting of his active and passive obedience is made over or imputed to all that believe on him Rom. 10.4 For Christ is the end of the law for Righteousness to every one that believeth 4. A right understanding of the law would give us such a discovery of our sins and the imperfections of our best works as to take us off from resting in the works of the law for our justification before God Gal. 2.19 I through the law am dead to the law that I might live unto God I will mention two or three things concerning the law that may convince us there is no hope for any man whatever to at tain righteousness and life by the law 1. The law is Spiritual and forbids Spiritual sins and requireth Spiritual duties and that may convince the Holyest man on earth of much sin and make him cry out of himself that he is an undone sinner without the mercy of God and the mercies of Christ Rom. 7.14 We know that the law is Spiritual but I am Carnal sold under sin The Spirituality of the law convinceth the Apostle Paul that he had in himself much Carnality and by reason of the sad effects of Original Corruption he was not able to perform that Spiritual Obedience the law called for which is the meaning of that expression sold under sin 2. The law forbids all evil motions and sinfull inclinations of the heart The first motions of sin that arise in the heart and all evil lusts in the heart though not consented to though opposed are a Transgression of the law Rom. 7.7 I had not known sin but by the law for I had not known lust except the law had said thou shalt not covet The Apostle did not understand the lustings and inordinate desires of the heart to be sin when not consented to till he considered that the first motions of sin were forbidden by the law and were Transgressions of that command thou shalt not covet If there be but a foolish thought in our minds though it be not allowed of though it be not suffered to lodge there it is a sin against the law of God Prov. 24.9 The thought of foolishness is sin 3. The least omission at any time of any duty that the law requireth and the commission of the least sin that the law forbids brings us under the curse of the law Gal. 3.10 Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things that are written in the book of tht law to do them If a man were able to keep the whole law and should offend but in one point he is guilty of Eternal Death by the law as well as if he had broken all the Commandments of God Jam. 2.10 Whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one point is guilty of all So Grotius Non minus morte punitur quàm si omnia praecepta violasset And Capellus Aeque damnatur