The Original, Nature, Property and Use of the Law · §19

Three properties

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Such is the nature of the ever blessed law of God. I am, in the third place, to show the properties of it: not all; for that would exceed the wisdom of an angel. But those only which are mentioned in the text. These are three: It is holy, just and good. And first, The law is holy.

1771 text

III. 1. Such is the nature of the ever blessed law of God. I am, in the third place, to shew the properties of it: not all; for that would exceed the wisdom of an angel. But those only which are mentioned in the text. These are three: It is holy, just and good. And first, The law is holy.

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Catalogue & scope

Sermon 34 in the 1771 Works. Romans 7:12.

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