While we are under the law, it is to us a damning covenant of works: but when Christ has satisfied its demands, and delivered us from its curse; he can then honourably write his law upon our minds, and communicate that grace, which may adapt and dispose us to his own delightful intercourse. The Gospel then is a declaration of the Father’s love, of Christ’s purchase, and of the Spirit’s grace in applying this salvation to our souls. Thus it furnishes us (2) with a new system of Divine hopes: We hope for an interest in the Father’s love, and Christ’s purchase, through the Spirit’s application of Gospel promises and grace to us; for God has not given men such grace, as will enable them to apply this salvation to themselves, without the immediate supernatural operations of that spirit which is given to us.

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