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Contents of the Works of Abraham Booth
Volume 1:
Memoir of the Author
The Reign of Grace
The Death of Legal Hope
Volume 2:
Glad Tidings to Perishing Sinners
Essay on the Kingdom of Christ
Apology for Baptists
Volume 3:
Divine Justice Essential to the Divine Character
Appendix to the Foregoing, Relative to the Doctrine of Atonement
by Jesus Christ
The Amen to Social Prayer, illustrated and improved
Pastoral Cautions, &c.
Commerce in the Human Species, and the enslaving of Innocent Persons,
inimical to the Laws of Moses and the Gospel of Jesus Christ
The Christian Triumph: a Sermon Occasioned by the Death of
Miss Ann Williams
Address Delivered at her Interment
Address at the Interment of Mr. Thomas Wilton
Address at the Interment of Benjamin Wallin, M.A.
Address at the Interment of Mr. Joseph Swain
Address at the Interment of Samuel Stennett, D.D.
The Christian’s Happiness in the Heavenly State; a Sermon
Occasioned by the Death of Mr. S. Gill.
Posthumous Essays
Miscellaneous

Volume 4:
Pædobaptism Examined –
Part 1: The Mode of Administration
Part 2: The Proper Subjects (Chapters 1-3)
Volume 5:
Pædobaptism Examined –
Part 2: The Proper Subjects (Chapters 4-5)
Part 3: Reply to Dr. Williams (Chapters 1-3)
Volume 6:
Pædobaptism Examined –
Part 3: Reply to Dr. Williams (Chapters 4-8)
Part 4: Reply to Mr. Peter Edwards

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The Reign of Grace
The Death of Legal Hope
the Life of Evangelical Obedience
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CONTENTS
Publisher’s Note .............................................................................. vii
Preface to Volume 1 of Abraham Booth’s Works ....................... ix
Original Biographical Preface (Memoir of the Author) ........................ 1
THE REIGN OF GRACE
The Author’s Original Preface .................................................................... 77
Introduction ................................................................................................ 79
Chapter
Page
1. Concerning the Signification of the term GRACE .......................... 87
2. Of Grace as it reigns in our SALVATION IN GENERAL ........... 91
3. Of Grace as it reigns in our ELECTION ..................................... 97
4. Of Grace as it reigns in our EFFECTUAL CALLING ............... 151
5. Of Grace as it reigns in a full, free, and
everlasting PARDON ................................................................. 169
6. Of Grace as it reigns in our JUSTIFICATION ........................... 206
7. Of Grace as it reigns in our ADOPTION .................................. 262
8. Of Grace as it reigns in our SANCTIFICATION ....................... 273
9. Concerning the necessity and usefulness of
HOLINESS and of GOOD WORKS ........................................ 297
10. Of Grace as it reigns in the PERSEVERANCE of
the saints to eternal glory ............................................................ 310
11. Concerning the PERSON of CHRIST by whom
Grace reigns ............................................................................... 329
12. Concerning the WORK of CHRIST through which
Grace reigns ............................................................................... 350
13. Concerning the CONSUMMATION of
the glorious reign of Grace .......................................................... 359
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THE DEATH OF LEGAL HOPE THE LIFE
OF EVANGELICAL OBEDIENCE
Dedication and Introduction ...................................................................... 389
Section
1. What Law it was to which the apostle was dead ......................... 397
2. Unregenerate Sinners alive to the Law as a Covenant ................. 400
3. Believers dead to the Law, considered as a Covenant ................... 411
4. Of the Law, as dead to Believers ................................................ 443
5. Believers dead to the Law, that they might live to God ................ 452
6. We must be dead to the Law, as a Covenant,
before we can live to God, in holy and acceptable Obedience ......... 466
7. Of the Law, as a Rule of Moral Conduct to Believers................. 475
Scripture Index ..................................................................................... 493
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Preface to Volume 1 of
Abraham Booth’s Works
The Works of Abraham Booth, when complete, will include all
the works published during Booth’s lifetime. The first three
volumes are reprinted from Button & Son’s 1813 edition, while
the remaining volumes will contain his literary tome,
Paedobaptism Examined. The present volume, first in the series,
begins with the Button & Son’s Memoir of the Author. The
writers recount Booth’s humble beginnings on the family farm,
his early efforts at self-education, his baptism into the General
Baptist ranks at the age of 21, and his rise as a preacher in that
movement. They then recount Booth’s change in conviction,
leading to his separation from the General Baptists and
realignment with the Particular, or Calvinistic, Baptists.
Booth wrote the second book in this volume, The Reign of
Grace, while pastoring a small Particular Baptist congregation
at Bare’s Hall. The work originated as a series of discourses
delivered to this congregation. After completing a draft
manuscript, he showed it to a few of his friends, including the
prominent evangelical Anglican Henry Venn. Venn was so
pleased with Booth’s work that he drove the effort to have the
book published. The book went to press in April of 1768,
complete with a preface by Henry Venn.
The Reign of Grace has since become Booth’s most influential
work. The premise is simple: from beginning to end, the
believer’s salvation is owing entirely to grace. In the opening
chapter, he defines his subject. Grace is “the eternal and
absolutely free favour of God, manifested in the
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vouchsafement [i.e. the bestowing] of spiritual and eternal
blessings to the guilty and the unworthy” (88). He explains that
God’s grace is “eternal,” “divinely free,” and “infinitely rich.”
Booth personifies grace as a queen throughout his work; a
sovereign who conquers sin, death, and ruin, and powerfully
works to lead her subjects to everlasting joy.
Chapters three through eight essentially walk the reader
through Booth’s ordo salutus, to demonstrate how grace reigns
from beginning to end. He starts with election, which he also
calls “distinguishing grace.” This chapter is an utter repudiation
of Booth’s earlier General Baptist convictions and offers a
powerful exposition of Reformed theology. He tells us that in
election, “our Sovereign” first chose Christ, and then chose a
special people to be under his headship in a single, spiritual
body. Election is an act of grace because the elect contribute
nothing to God’s choice. Grace “never affords her smiles to
any because they are worthy,” Booth writes. “She ennobles
none because they are better than others. So to do would be
quite inconsistent with her amiable character; would be utterly
subversive to her grand design” (107).
In subsequent chapters Booth demonstrates the reign of
grace in the sinner’s effectual calling (which he equates with
regeneration), then their pardon and justification. “Pardon is a
blessing of superlative worth,” he says, “because absolutely
necessary to present peace and future salvation. Without it, no
individual of Adam’s race can be happy” (169). Justification,
which subsumes pardon, is “a judicial, but gracious act of God;
by which a sinner is absolved from the guilt of sin, is freed
from condemnation, and has a right to eternal life adjudged,
merely for the sake of our Lord’s obedience, which is imputed
to him, and received by faith” (209-10). It is an act of grace
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because “God appoints the way . . . provides the means: and
. . . imputes the righteousness” (210).
The next chapter considers adoption, which is “God’s
gracious admission of strangers and aliens, into the state,
relation, and enjoyment of all the privileges of children,
through Jesus Christ: according to that glorious promise of the
new covenant—I will be a Father unto you, and ye shall by my
sons and daughters” (262-63). God does not adopt because of
anything admirable in the sinner, but merely out of his own
sovereign pleasure: “That the children of wrath should become
the inheritors of glory, and the slaves of Satan be acknowledge
as the sons of Jehovah: that the enemies of God should be
adopted into his family, and have an indefeasible right to all the
privileges of his children, are astonishing to the last degree,” he
declares (264).
The next three chapters explore the doctrines of
sanctification and perseverance, matters of “vast importance”
given that sanctification is “the end of our eternal election . . .
the primary intention of justification—the scope of
adoption—and absolutely necessary to glorification” (273).
They are also gracious works of God in that the blessings are
promised and secured by God. This section includes a
treatment of God’s moral law and its relation to the new
covenant believer. Booth contends that the moral law is
immutable, but individuals may relate to it in one of two ways:
either as a covenant of works, or as a rule of life. In the former
case, the sinner stakes his hope for eternal life on his own
ability to keep the law, and he accepts eternal condemnation if
he fails. This is how all men not under the reign of grace relate
to God’s law, and it is why all therein are condemned. But for
those under the reign of grace, it is different. They strive to
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keep God’s moral law because they see its beauty, is blessings,
and its divine imperative. However, they do not stake their
justification on their own law-keeping. They rely instead on the
alien righteousness of Christ, imputed to them through the
instrumentality of faith, which is itself a gift of God.
Chapters eleven and twelve consider the person and work of
Christ, the one by whom grace reigns. Booth expounds upon
Christ’s dual nature and threefold office of prophet, priest, and
king. In his concluding chapter, he considers the
consummation of the reign of grace: eternal life, which is “An
everlasting state of complete holiness, consummate happiness,
in the presence and fruition of God, in all his Persons and
perfections” (359). That blessed state begins the moment a
regenerate soul separates from the body, but will not be
consummated until the resurrection and Final Judgment. “This
is the end of the victorious Reign of Grace” he declares.
“Grace reigned in the eternal counsels, when contriving the
way to this glorious end. Grace reigned in providing the means,
and in bestowing the blessings, that were necessary to its
accomplishment. Grace reigned to the complete execution of
the noble, the astonishing design, from first to last” (379).
Booth’s The Reign of Grace earned him such notoriety in
Particular Baptist circles that he was soon called away from
Bare’s Hall to lead a Baptist church on Little Prescot Street in
London. Here he had opportunity to learn Latin and Greek,
and then to immerse himself in works of theology and church
history. The Death of Legal Hope, the third work in this volume,
was published in 1770 while Booth was pastoring in London.
Written as a supplement to The Reign of Grace, this little book
argues that the grace which leads to salvation has no tendency
to relax one’s obligations to holiness, bur rather confirms
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them. He explains that being “dead to the law” (Gal. 2:19)
means giving up on the law as a covenant of works; of pinning
one’s hopes for justification and life on one’s own personal
righteousness. At the same time, its opposite, “living to God”
(again, Gal. 2:19), does not mean lawlessness, but having
genuine love for God which leads to “conscientious
conformity to his commands” (454). Those who are living to
God make God’s law their rule of life, even as they have
abandoned the law as a covenant of works. They love God’s
law, delight in it, see the blessings of conforming to it, and do
not wish to violate it.
In this work as well as the others, Booth writes as a preacher.
Each doctrine is carefully expounded and then practically
applied. He poses questions designed to pierce through both
logical inconsistencies and moral excuses. Booth’s
combination of intellectual rigor, evangelical conviction, and
lucid writing has bequeathed to the Church a literary legacy that
is a joy to read and a delightful challenge to put into practice.
-Brandon Crawford
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THE
W O R K S
OF
ABRAHAM BOOTH,
LATE
Pastor of the Baptist Church
ASSEMBLING IN
LITTLE PRESCOT STREET, GOODMAN’S FIELDS,
LONDON.
WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF HIS
LIFE AND WRITINGS
VOL. I
London:
J. Haddon, 12, Tabernacle Walk,
Finsbury Square.
PUBLISHED AND SOLD BY BUTTON & SON, PATERNOSTER-
ROW;
BURTON, LEADENHALL STREET; AND BAGSTER, STRAND.
SOLD ALSO BY
GALE, CURTIS, AND FENNER; BAYNES, HAMILTON, AND W. JONES,
PATERNOSTER-ROW; WILLIAMS AND SON, STATIONERS’ COURT; AND
OLIPHANT, WAUGH,
AND INNES, EDINBURGH
1813.

MEMOIR
OF
THE AUTHOR
In offering to the public an uniform edition of the Works of
the late Mr. Abraham Booth, it may be expected that, in
compliance with general custom, it should be accompanied
with some account of their estimable author. His writings,
indeed, where known, stand in no need of panegyric to
recommend them to the regard of any who have a cordial
attachment to divine truth; and of his personal history there is
little to be told with which his cotemporaries are not already
acquainted.
But in collecting his numerous productions into one body,
which is now first done, it must not be forgotten, that they are
assuming a form in which they are destined to descend to
future times, when all that relates to him will be perused with
avidity; and the publishers have the satisfaction of thinking that
they are now performing a service which, in the opinion of
many, has been too long delayed; that they are taking the most
effectual means to prevent any of his smaller pieces from
falling into obscurity; and establishing a repository for the
instruction and edification of numbers yet unborn: for it surely
can be no presumption to affirm that, so long as the churches
of Christ in this country shall continue to cherish a reverential
regard for the doctrine of sovereign, rich, and free grace, these
Volumes will continue to be held in high estimation.
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Abraham Booth was born at Blackwell in Derbyshire, on the
20th of May 1734, Old Style. In the first year of his life, his
parents removed from Blackwell to Annesley Woodhouse, a
small hamlet in the parish of Annesley, Nottinghamshire,
where they occupied a farm belonging to the Duke of Portland.
Of a numerous family of children, Abraham was the oldest;
and there the first fifteen or sixteen years of his life were
passed, assisting his father, as soon as he was able, in his
agricultural concerns.
The advantages of education, which are of such unspeakable
importance to the cultivation of our mental powers, are
generally of difficult attainment in villages and the retired
districts of the country; and a century ago they were probably
more so than at present. This may help us to account for a
circumstance which Mr. Booth has often been heard to
mention amongst his friends; that until he quitted the farming
business he never spent six months at school. His father taught
him to read, making it a general practice to hear him his lesson
every day after dinner.
It is certainly a very just remark, that there are no characters
however eminent among our species, whose biography is so
instructive, or in which we feel more interested, than those
which exhibit to our view persevering efforts surmounting
formidable obstacles, and distinguished eminence gradually
arising out of obscurity and depression. Such is the discipline
through which many of the greatest names in the republic of
letters have passed; nor have any of the original favourites of
nature or the children of affluence attained a superiority so
solid and durable as that which has been acquired by such a
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The energy of our author’s mind, which appeared so
conspicuously throughout the subsequent period of his life,
began very early to develope itself. He was indebted almost
entirely to his own industry and application for his proficiency
in the art of writing and in the science of arithmetic. And as he
grew up, so devoted did he become to his studies, that he
chearfully sacrificed the hours usually allotted to repose and
recreation, for the pleasure he found in prosecuting them.
When the other members of the family retired to rest,
Abraham withdrew to cultivate his mind.
The parents of our author, were professedly members of the
church of England; and of course trained up their son in a
customary reverence for the national establishment of religion.
The first direction of his mind towards the dissenters took
place when he was about ten years of age; and was occasioned
by the preaching of some plain and illiterate teachers belonging
to the denomination of General (or Arminian) Baptists who
occasionally visited his neighbourhood. They drew the
attention of the family; and under their discourses our author
was first awakened to a concern about the salvation of his soul.
His convictions were permanent and increased with his years;
but it is plain from the history of his own mind that it was long
after this ere he attained any just and clear views of the true
grace of God, or was enlightened into the important doctrine
of acceptance with God as revealed in the New Testament. He,
however, applied to the society of General Baptists to be
admitted into their communion, and was accordingly baptized
on a profession of his faith, by Mr. Francis Smith, at Barton,
in 1755, at which time he was about the age of twenty-one.
Some years previous to this, young Booth had relinquished
the farming business; and, induced probably by the hope of

eing able to pursue his studies with less interruption, he had
applied himself to learn the business of a stocking-maker, but
was never articled as an apprentice to the trade. He, however,
managed to support himself by that means, from the age of
sixteen to that of four-and-twenty, at which period he married
Miss Elizabeth Bowmar, the daughter of a neighbouring
farmer, with whom he enjoyed much domestic felicity during
more than forty years.
But, possessing so vigorous a mind, it was not likely that Mr.
Booth should long continue a mechanic. He had now been
diligently occupied for several years in the acquisition of useful
knowledge; his capacity had attained to a considerable degree
of maturity; he had entered into an important domestic
relation; and he had before him, the prospect of a numerous
family for whom he was bound to provide; and he, therefore,
adopted the resolution of opening a School at Sutton Ashfield,
about two miles from Kirby, for the instruction of youth. Mrs.
Booth assisted the undertaking by instructing the female pupils
in the useful branches of needle work, for which she had been
eminently qualified by her education, in respect of which she
had been privileged far beyond what commonly falls to the lot
of young women in the same rank of life. They also wished to
take a few boarders, but that part of the plan met with but little
success, for the number seldom exceeded two or three.
The society of General Baptists, with which Mr. Booth now
stood connected, had sufficient discernment to perceive that
he possessed abilities which only required cultivation to mature
and raise to excellence. They accordingly invited him to assist
occasionally in the public preaching of the word; and so rapid
was his improvement, that, in a little time, he was considered
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considerably throughout the neighbouring districts; and our
author was frequently at Melbourne, Barton, Loughborough,
Diseworth, and other places at the distance of twenty, thirty,
and even forty miles from home, preaching the glad tidings of
salvation to his fellow sinners, according to the views which he
then had of divine truth.
In the year 1760, it was thought adviseable to collect into
churches those who had professed the faith and been baptized,
and to appoint over them pastors and teachers after the
example of the first churches. The society of Kirby-
Woodhouse was accordingly submitted to the superintendance
of Mr. Booth, who continued for several years to labour among
them in the ministry of the word; though, for reasons which
do not appear, he declined to take upon himself the pastoral
office.
His preaching is, nevertheless, said to have been with
considerable acceptance and success; and in the regulation of
these newly formed societies he proved highly instrumental.
We find him in the same year assisting at the ordination of Mr.
F. Smith and Mr. T. Parkins over the General Baptist church
at Melbourne and delivering a solemn charge to them from
Acts 20:28. Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, &c.
In this stage of their proceedings, however, a memorable and
important change took place in the religious sentiments of Mr.
Booth. He had hitherto held the Arminian doctrine of
Universal Redemption, and been a strenuous advocate for the
universality of divine grace. He had written and printed a Poem
on ‘Absolute Predestination,’ in which the fervour of his zeal
for what he then esteemed truth, had vented itself in reviling
the doctrines of election and particular redemption, in

language as replete with contumely and reproach as is to be
found in the writings of Wesley or Fletcher.
We cannot doubt for a moment, that this pamphlet, though
its circulation was very inconsiderable, must have been a
source of painful reflection to him in the subsequent period of
his life, when his mind was better instructed on this sublime
subject; for, in the preface to the ‘The Reign of Grace,’ he thus
records his own judgment of it: ‘As a poem, if considered in a
critical light, it is despicable; if in a theological view, detestable,
as it is an impotent attack on the honour of divine grace in
respect to its glorious freeness, and a bold opposition to the
sovereignty of God, and as such I renounce it.” It may indeed
be pleaded as some apology, for its author, that he wrote it
when only twenty years of age; and it is important, as serving
to demonstrate the greatness of the change which afterwards
took place in his mind relative to the character of the Supreme
Being.
To an attentive observer of what passes among the various
sects of religious professors of the present day, scarcely any
thing will appear more remarkable than the disposition there is
to fritter away the differences which exist among them, relative
to the doctrines of the everlasting gospel and the practices of
the first christians. Mr. Booth, who was, in regard to this
principle, a happy exception to an almost general rule, has
entered his protest against it, and expressed his mind on the
subject so strikingly in his writings that I shall beg leave to
extract a passage or two in this place. Thus, for instance, he
quotes with approbation a modern writer.
A considerable succedaneum for the Christian unity is the
catholic charity, which is like the charity commended by Paul in
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Among the stricter sort it goes chiefly under the name of
forbearance. We shall be much mistaken if we think that, by this
soft and agreeable word is chiefly meant the tenderness and
compassion inculcated by the precepts of Jesus Christ and his
apostles. It strictly means an agreement to differ quietly about
the doctrines and commandments of the gospel, without
interruption of visible fellowship. They distinguish carefully
between fundamentals, or things necessary to be believed and
practised; and circumstantials, or things that are indifferent.—If
men have different notions of Jesus Christ, his divinity, his
sacrifice, his kingdom, and the customs of his religion, even
from what the apostles seemed to have, charity, with many,
demands that we think well of their religious characters
notwithstanding this. It is unbecoming the modesty of wise men
to be confident on any side, and contending earnestly for
opinions injures the peace of the Christian church. Thus kind
and humble is modern charity. Instead of rejoicing in, or with
the truth, it rejoiceth in contemplating the admirable piety that
may be produced from so many different, yea opposite
principles. 1
These pointed strictures upon a mode of procedure which,
as it appears to the writer of this Memoir, is pregnant with
serious evil to the churches of Christ, cannot be too often
repeated; and their application to the case in hand is too
obvious to need pointing out. Mr. Booth was fully aware that
the change which his sentiments had undergone, was of such
a nature as to render it utterly impossible for himself and his
friends to walk any longer together in a way that would be
productive of mutual comfort; and he had too much integrity
to conceal the difference. The change itself was the fruit of
1 Works, Vol. 2.

deep conviction, and thus at a future period of his life we find
his own pen recording it.
The doctrine of sovereign, distinguishing grace, as commonly
and justly stated by Calvinists, it must be acknowledged, is too
generally exploded. This the writer of these pages knows by
experience, to his grief and shame. Through the ignorance of his
mind, the pride of his heart, and the prejudice of his education,
he, in his younger years, often opposed it with much warmth,
though with no small weakness; but after an impartial enquiry,
and many prayers, he found reason to alter his judgment; he
found it to be the doctrine of the Bible, and a dictate of the
unerring Spirit. Thus patronized, he received the once
obnoxious sentiment, under a full conviction of its being a
divine truth. 2
The revolution that had now taken place in our author’s
sentiments was soon observed by his friends, and it occasioned
considerable uneasiness in their minds. They respected his
character and approved his ministry. Meetings were held for
the purpose of investigating the differences which subsisted
between them, when each party produced the best arguments
they could in behalf of their respective tenets; but neither party
succeeding in convincing the other, they mutually agreed to
part.
Now, reader, what think you of the law, as a rule of moral
conduct? Is it pleasant, is it delightful to you? In vain you
profess to know the gracious gospel, while you continue an
enemy to the holy law. For as the law, in its covenant form, is
the appointed mean of convincing the careless sinner of his
need of that righteousness which is revealed in the gospel, for
the justification of his person before God, so the gospel,
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exhibiting adequate relief to the distressed conscience, is the
happy instrument of conciliating the believer’s regard to the
law, as a rule of conduct, that his faith may be evidenced in the
sight of men.
Thus the law and the gospel are mutually subservient to one
another, while both agree to promote the happiness of the
redeemed, and the glory of their divine Author. He, therefore,
who does not pay an habitual regard to the law, in a course of
obedience, has no experience of the gospel, in a way of
comfort. As he tramples on that divine authority, which
appears in the former, so he despises that boundless grace,
which is revealed in the latter. Such an one is an enemy to both,
and his state is most deplorable.
Remember, reader, that you may talk as much as you please,
about the holy tendency of evangelical principles; but the
adversaries of the gospel will never believe you, if they do not
see the truth of what you say exemplified in your own conduct.
The import of those observations which they make on your
conversation, is, ‘You that speak with such fluency and
confidence about the doctrines of grace, and the necessity of
faith, let us see what influence these doctrines have on your
own tempers and your own behaviour? Show us your faith by
your works?’ This is a reasonable demand.—They are
authorised to make it; and wo, wo be to every professor of
evangelical truth, whose behaviour is not answerable to that
demand! For if our conduct be inconsistent with our
profession, we shall soon be treated as the greatest enemies to
Christ and his cause.
Are you a believer in Jesus? one that knows the grace of God
in truth? You have the purest and strongest motives
imaginable, to regard the law. Has the Son of the Highest done

all you were bound to perform, as the condition of life; and
suffered all you were condemned to sustain, as the penalty
annexed to disobedience? Has he done and suffered all this in
your stead, that he might procure a full, final, and everlasting
salvation for you, a poor, perishing sinner?
Has he expressed his regard to the law, as a Covenant, not in
words but in deeds; in such deeds as astonish the universe? and
shall you be backward to manifest your love to the law, as a
rule of moral duty, by a serious, holy, heavenly conduct? Did
He, whom angels adore, obey, and bleed, and die,—die an
accursed death, that the claims of the law, as a covenant, might
be all answered? and shall it seem hard to you, to deny yourself,
to subdue your corruptions, and to walk by this heavenly rule?
Is it the popular clamour against the genuine gospel, ‘That it
makes void the law?’ and shall it be your constant business and
fervent prayer, so to observe the sacred precepts, as to be a
living confutation of that detestable slander? Do not reason
and conscience, scripture and experience, all concur to show
the expediency, the utility, the necessity of conforming your
life to the law, as a rule?
O, believer! yours is the happy state; let yours be the holy life.
Let it appear that, though dead to the law, as a covenant, you
abhor the things it forbids, and delight in the things it
commands.—Then will you stop the mouths of gainsayers;
then will you glorify the name of your God.—Amen.
END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

SCRIPTURE INDEX
Genesis
12:1 ............................................ 237
15:1 ............................................ 378
Exodus
15:11.......................................... 369
23:7 ............................................ 208
32:32.......................................... 200
34:6, 7 ....................................... 174
Leviticus
25:48, 49 ................................... 331
Numbers
14:19, 20 ................................... 200
23:21.......................................... 173
23:22.......................................... 449
Deuteronomy
25:2 ............................................ 208
33:3 ............................................ 314
Ruth
2:20 ............................................ 331
3:9 .............................................. 331
1 Samuel
2:8 .............................................. 369
12:22.......................................... 314
18:23.......................................... 265
25:29.......................................... 320
2 Samuel
7:27-29 ...................................... 325
1 Kings
8:30, 34, 36, 39, 50 .................. 200
8:31, 32 ..................................... 208
2 Kings
21 ............................................... 176
2 Chronicles
33 ............................................... 176
Nehemiah
9:17 ............................................ 174
Job
7:21 ............................................ 200
9:2 .............................................. 391
9:20, 21, 30-32 ......................... 260
9:33 ............................................ 338
13:18.......................................... 208
17:9 ............................................ 314
19:25-27 .................................... 420
21:14, 15 ................................... 278
23:18.......................................... 121
27:5 ............................................ 208
38:7 ............................................ 380
40:4 ................................... 260, 420
42:6 ............................................ 420
43:6 ............................................ 260
Psalms
10:3 ............................................ 307
14:3 ............................................ 171
17:16.......................................... 374
23:2 ............................................ 321
27

30:4 ............................................ 369
32:1 ............................................ 171
32:1, 2 ....................................... 423
32:2 ............................................ 171
35:19.......................................... 216
38:4 ............................................ 171
45:13, 14 ................................... 352
49:4 ............................................ 216
50:22.......................................... 407
51:8, 12 ..................................... 326
51:9 ............................................ 171
63:1, 2 ....................................... 458
84:1, 2 ....................................... 458
85:2 ............................................ 171
89:30.......................................... 292
89:30-32 ........................... 291, 326
89:30-34 .................................... 322
89:33-35 .................................... 316
97:12.......................................... 369
127:3.......................................... 467
130:3.......................................... 260
130:3, 4 ..................................... 421
143:2........................ 260, 420, 427
Proverbs
4:23 ............................................ 327
16:25.......................................... 382
17:15.......................................... 208
28:26................................. 311, 327
Song of Songs
4:7 .............................................. 449
5:6 .............................................. 458
Isaiah
6:2-7 .......................................... 261
14:24, 27 ................................... 312
14:27.......................................... 121
27:3 ............................................ 313
33:14.......................................... 406
42:2 ............................................ 265
42:21........................ 437, 448, 484
44:22.......................................... 171
45:17.......................................... 251
45:22.......................................... 252
45:25.......................................... 251
46:10.......................................... 121
46:13.......................................... 352
49:7 .............................................. 83
49:15, 16 ................................... 349
51:5, 6, 8 ................................... 352
56:1 ............................................ 352
56:5 ............................................ 265
60:19.......................................... 378
61:10.......................................... 352
Jeremiah
1:20 ............................................ 173
2:25 ............................................ 174
17:9 ................................... 311, 327
22:42.......................................... 312
23:6 ............................................ 352
31:3 .............................................. 89
31:22.......................................... 334
31:31-34 .................................... 235
32:39, 40 ................................... 314
33:8, 9 ....................................... 175
50:20.......................................... 449
Daniel
9:24 ............................................ 352
11:2, 3 ....................................... 325
Micah
7:18 ............................................ 175
Zephaniah
3:17 ............................................ 312
Zechariah
2:5 .............................................. 313
4:7 .............................................. 432

Scripture Index
12:10.......................................... 296
13:7 ............................................ 341
Malachi
3:17 ............................................ 320
Matthew
3:17 .............................................. 83
5:21, 22, 27, 28,
33, 34, 43, 44 ......................... 414
7:22 ............................................ 375
11:19................................. 207, 208
11:28................................. 171, 450
12:27.......................................... 208
13:43.......................................... 373
18:28.......................................... 171
25:34-40 .................................... 375
25:35, 36 ................................... 465
25:40.......................................... 376
27:44.......................................... 186
Mark
14:71.......................................... 177
15:32.......................................... 186
Luke
7:29 ............................................ 207
8:29 ............................................ 208
12:15.......................................... 308
12:19.......................................... 308
12:21.......................................... 308
15:22.......................................... 352
18:3 ............................................ 420
18:11.......................................... 226
18:18-23 .................................... 188
22:29.......................................... 360
22:32.......................................... 319
John
1:12 ............................................ 252
3:36 ............................................ 469
5:25 ............................................ 453
6:37 ............................................ 450
10:26.......................................... 108
10:28, 29 ................................... 314
11:42.......................................... 319
14:19.......................................... 453
15:3 ............................................ 283
15:5 ............................................ 469
15:25.......................................... 216
15:26.......................................... 353
16:14.......................................... 353
17:1, 5 ....................................... 325
17:11, 15 ................................... 319
17:17.......................................... 283
17:19.......................................... 283
17:20.......................................... 319
Acts
13:38-39 .................................... 207
13:48.......................................... 107
15:11.......................................... 431
Romans
1:7 .............................................. 226
1:17 .......................... 252, 353, 470
2:13 ............................................ 208
3:4 ..................................... 207, 208
3:8, 31 ....................................... 248
3:20 .......................... 220, 225, 397
3:21 ............................................ 209
3:22 ............................................ 226
3:24 ............................................ 215
3:26-28 ...................................... 225
3:28 ............................................ 255
3:31 ............................................ 484
4:2, 3, 22-24 ............................. 238
4:4 .............................................. 233
4:4, 16 ......................................... 87
4:5 ..................................... 255, 470
4:5-8 .......................................... 239
4:5, 16 ....................................... 356

4:6-8 .......................................... 424
4:13-16 ...................................... 224
4:14 ............................................ 222
4:15 ............................................ 221
5:2 .............................................. 382
5:17 ................................... 251, 252
5:18 ............................................ 208
5:18, 19 ..................................... 245
5:20 ............................................ 221
6:1, 15 ....................................... 248
6:14 ............................................ 289
6:17 ............................................ 284
7:1-4, 6 ...................................... 444
7:4 ............................ 411, 451, 467
7:6 .............................................. 468
7:7 .............................................. 225
7:9 ..................................... 399, 414
7:22 ............................................ 478
8:3 .............................................. 398
8:7 .............................................. 469
8:17 ............................................ 267
8:30 ............................................ 107
8:30, 33, 34 ............................... 208
8:33 ............................................ 173
8:38, 39 ..................................... 313
9:2, 3.......................................... 435
9:11, 19 ..................................... 121
9:15 ............................................ 432
9:15, 16 ..................................... 106
9:31 ............................................ 435
9:31, 32 ............................ 382, 436
9:33 ............................................ 436
10:1 ............................................ 435
10:2 ............................................ 435
10:2, 3 ....................................... 382
10:3 ............................................ 352
10:3, 4 ....................................... 437
10:4 ................................... 426, 448
10:5-9 ........................................ 356
11:6 ..................................... 88, 255
12:1 ............................................ 289
13:8-10 ...................................... 479
14:5 ............................................ 426
1 Corinthians
1:8 .............................................. 314
1:29, 31 ....................................... 64
1:30 ............................................ 251
2:12 ............................................ 353
3:16, 17 ..................................... 290
3:22 ............................................ 361
6:9, 10 ....................................... 307
6:17 ............................................ 320
11:32................................. 291, 322
16:22.......................................... 287
2 Corinthians
3:5, 7.......................................... 399
3:6, 7.......................................... 445
3:9 .............................................. 251
5:14 ............................................ 296
5:21 .......................... 103, 251, 352
7:1 .............................................. 290
8:23 ............................................ 319
Galatians
1:6 ..................................... 393, 394
1:8, 9.......................................... 394
2:15, 16 ..................................... 426
2:16 .......................... 220, 255, 397
2:19 ................................... 391, 411
2:20 ................................... 453, 470
2:21 ................................... 222, 394
3:1 .............................................. 391
3:6-9 .......................................... 238
3:10 .................. 221, 394, 448, 468
3:11, 12 ..................................... 222
3:12, 18 ..................................... 356
3:13 ................................... 103, 341
3:15 ............................................ 408
4:16 ............................................ 394
4:19 ............................................ 391

Scripture Index
5:2, 4................................. 384, 410
5:3 .............................................. 394
5:7 .............................................. 392
5:13-14 ...................................... 480
Ephesians
1:3 .............................................. 433
1:3, 4.......................................... 105
1:4 .............................................. 107
1:6 ..................................... 251, 430
1:22, 23 ..................................... 319
2:3 ..................................... 401, 469
2:6, 7.......................................... 182
2:7-10 ........................................ 295
2:8, 9.......................... 87, 225, 255
2:8-10 ........................................ 232
2:12 ............................................ 235
3:8 .............................................. 392
3:10 ............................................ 379
3:17 ............................................ 441
4:24 ............................................ 283
4:30 ............................................ 290
5:1 .............................................. 290
5:5 .............................................. 307
5:27 ................................... 380, 449
6:1, 2.......................................... 480
Philippians
2:6, 8.......................................... 341
2:13 ............................................ 470
2:15 ............................................ 290
3:1, 2.......................................... 430
3:4 .............................................. 428
3:8, 9.......................................... 429
3:9 ..................................... 226, 232
3:12 ............................................ 428
3:18 ............................................ 462
3:19 ............................................ 462
3:21 ............................................ 373
4:4 .............................................. 449
Colossians
1:21 ............................................ 469
1:22 ................................... 446, 449
2:7 .............................................. 441
2:10 ............................................ 251
2:16 ............................................ 252
3:3, 4.......................................... 320
3:4 .............................................. 371
3:5 .............................................. 307
3:12-14 ...................................... 285
2 Thessalonians
2:13 ............................................ 283
3:3 .............................................. 316
1 Timothy
1:9 .............................................. 433
1:15 ................................... 182, 392
3:16 ............................................ 207
6:9, 10 ....................................... 309
2 Timothy
1:9 .............................. 87, 105, 108
1:12 ............................................ 371
3:14 ............................................ 462
4:8 .............................................. 371
4:18 ............................................ 314
Titus
1:15 ............................................ 470
2:11, 12 ..................................... 296
3:5 .............................................. 255
Hebrews
2:11 ............................................ 331
2:18 ............................................ 349
4:15 ............................................ 349
5:13 ............................................ 251
6:17 ............................................ 121
6:18 ............................................ 422

8:10-12 ...................................... 235
8:12 ............................................ 203
10:38.......................................... 470
11:6 ............................................ 470
11:8 ............................................ 237
12:5-11 ...................................... 291
13:5 ................................... 309, 314
James
1:17 ............................................ 121
2:8 .............................................. 481
2:10 ............................................ 221
2:21-25 ...................................... 237
3:13 ............................................ 391
4:4 .............................................. 462
1 Peter
1:2 .............................................. 283
1:2-4 .......................................... 313
1:3, 5.......................................... 382
1:9 .............................................. 470
1:12 ............................................ 379
2:2 .............................................. 458
2:9 .............................................. 285
5:4 .............................................. 371
2 Peter
1:1 .............................................. 252
1:4 .............................................. 290
2:3 .............................................. 407
1 John
1:7 .............................................. 171
3:2 .............................................. 374
3:3 .............................................. 382
Revelation
1:5 .............................................. 171
19:8 ............................................ 352
20:11.......................................... 374
21:9 ............................................ 380