Dudley Fenner on the law-gospel distinction

Reformed Covenanter · Sep 14, 2023

ALL being lost in Adam by our nature corrupted, and much more by the fruits thereof, they who shall be saved, must be restored by being one with Christ, and so with God, Rom. 3. ver. 9. to 20. Rom. 5. 14. Eph. 2. ver. 3. Rom. 5. 12. 14. & 6. 21. 23. 1. John. 1. 3. To obtain Christ [two] means are ordained the

Law preached, 2. Cor. 3. 5. 6.
& Gospel preached, 2. Cor. 3. 5. 6.

By these two Instruments the holy Ghost worketh two things necessary to be in us for the obtaining of Christ. 2. Cor. 3. 6. 7. Rom. 8. 15. 8. &c. By the first, a true knowledge and feeling of sin, & the punishment due to the same, which maketh us seek Christ, Rom. 7. 5. to the 15. Mat. 5. 6. Gal. 3. 19. to the 25. Mat. 9. 12. 13. By the second, a true knowledge and feeling of grace, with power by faith to receive Christ. Ephe. 3. 8. to the end, and 4. 11. to 17. Rom. 10. 14. 15. 16. Gal. 3. 26. to the end.

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