CHA P. III. Of the law of Chrift. 1. The nature of the law of Chrift. Page 236 243 2. The law of the ten commandments, a rule of life to believers. 3. Antinomian objections answered. 4. The neceffity of marks and figns of grace. 5. Antinomian objections anfwered. 6. Holinefs and good works attained to, only by faith. § 7. Slavish fear, and fervile hope, not the springs of true obedience 8. The efficacy of faith, for holiness of heart and life. 9. Ufe of means for ftrengthening of faith. 10. The diftinction of the law of works, and law II. The use of that diftinction, in practice. 248 256 262 265 277 287 299 300 306 13. How to attain to affurance. 322 15. How to recover loft evidences. 14. Marks and evidences of true faith. 324 328 16. Marks and figns of union with Christ. 330 333 CHA P. IV. Of the heart's happiness, or foul's reft. 1. No reft for the foul, till it come to God, The conclufion. 237 241 349 357 MARROW O F. MODERN DIVINITY. THE SECOND PART. TOUCHING The most Plain, Pithy, and Spiritual EXPOSITION of the TEN COMMANDMENTS, the Examination of the Heart and Life by them, the Reason why the Lord gave them, and the Ufe that both Unbelievers and Believers are to make of them. Profitable for any Man, who either defires to be driven out of himself to Chrift, or fo to walk as that he may please Chrift In a DIALOGUE betwixt EVANGELISTA, a Minifter of the Gospel. By EDWARD FISHER, Author of the FIRST PART. To which is added, An APPENDIX, containing the difference betwixt the Law and the Gospel, by the fame AUTHOR. 1 Tim. i. 8. We know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully. THE FIFTH EDITION. GLASGOW: Printed by JOHN BRYCE, and fold at his Shop in the SALT-MARKET. 1766. THE HE Marrow of the fecond bone is like that of the firft, fweet and good. The commandments of God are marrow to the faints as well as the promifes; and they fhall never taste the marrow of the promise who diftaste the commandments. This little treatise breaketh the bone, the hard part of the commandments by a plain expofition, that fo all, even babes in Chrift, yea, fuch as are yet out of Chrift, may fuck out and feed upon the marrow by profitable meditation. 6 Sept. 1648. JOSEPH CARYL TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN WARNER, Lord Mayor of the most renowned city of LONDON. E. F. wifheth a moft plentiful increase of fpiritual wisdom, and all neceffary graces for the difcharge of his duty, to the glory of God, and the good of his people. Right Honourable, T HE rod of God's judgments hath been now long upon us, which we by our manifold fins have procured, according as it is faid concerning Jerufalem, Jer. iv. 18. Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee. And have we any juft ground to hope, that till the cause be taken away, the effect will ceafe? Can we expect that the Lord will turn away his judgments, till we turn away from our fins? And can we turn away from our fins, before we know them? And can we come to know our fins any otherwise than by the law? Doth not one apostle fay, that fin is the tranfgreffion of the law, 1 John iii. 4. And doth not another apoftle therefore fay, that by the law is the knowledge of fin, Rom. iii. 20. Surely then, a treatife wherein is fhewed what is required, and what is forbidden in every com mandment of the law, and fo confequent what is fin, muft needs be for this caufe ver feasonable. But yet alas! fuch is the power fin, and the dominion of Satan in many mer hearts, that although there be never fo man treatises written, nor never fo many fermor preached upon this fubject, yet do they eithe remain wilfully ignorant of their fins, or elf though they know them, yet will they not for go them, but rather chufe wilfully to wallow or in the mire of iniquity, fo fweet and dear ar their fins unto them. But what then, muft the be fuffered fo to go on without reftraint? No God forbid. Such perfons as the law and love of God will not conftrain, fuch muft the execution of justice reftrain, upon fuch muft the penalty of the laws of the land, (being grounded upon God's laws) be by the civil magiftrate inflicted. And for this caufe is it that the king is required, "When he fitteth upon the throne "of his kingdom, to write him a copy of the "law of GoD in a book," Deut. xvii. 18. And for this caufe it is that the civil magiftrate is calTed, The keeper of both tables; for faith Lu ther, God hath ordained magiftrates, and other fuperiors, and appointed laws, bounds, and all civil ordinances, that if they can do no more, yet at least they may bind the devil's hands, that he rage not in his bond-flaves after his own luft. And hence it is, that the apoftle, fpeaking of the civil magiftrate, faith, "If thou do "that which is evil, be afraid, for he beareth |