While that conveys a deadly wound;
This makes me perfect, whole, and found.
There viewing how difeas'd I am,
I here perceive the healing balm :
Afflicted there with sense of need,
But here refresh'd with meet remede.
The law's a charge for what I owe;
The gospel my difcharge to fhow:
The one a scene of fears doth ope;
The other is the door of hope,
An angry God the law reveal'd;
The gofpel fhews him reconcil'd:
By that I know he was difpleas'd;
By this I fee his wrath appeas'd.
The law thus fhews the divine ire,
And nothing but confuming fire.
The gospel brings the olive-branch,
And blood the burning fire to quench.
The law ftill fhews a fiery face;
The gospel fhews a throne of grace :
There justice rides alone in ftate;
But bere the takes the mercy-feat.

In SU M:

Lo! in the law JEHOVAH dwells,
But Jefus is conceal'd!
Whereas the gofpel's nothing elfe
But Jefus Chrift reveal'd.

S.E.CT III.

The Harmony betwixt the Law and the Gospel.

HE law's a tutor much in vogue,

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To gofpel grace a pedagogue ;

The gospel to the law no lefs
Than its full end for righteousness.
When once the fiery law of God
Has chac'd me to the gofpel-road;
Then back unto the holy law
Moft kindly gofpel-grace will draw.
When by the law to grace I'm school'd ;
Grace by the law will have me rul'd:
Hence, if I don't the law obey,
I cannot keep the gospel way.
When I the gospel-news believe,
Obedience to the law I give:
And that both in its fed'ral drefs,
And as a rule of holiness,
Lo! in my Head I render all
For which the fiery law can call:
His blood unto its fire was fuel,
His Spirit fhapes me to its rule.
When law and gospel kindly meet,
To ferve each other both unite:
Sweet promises, and ftern commands,
Do work to one another's hands.
The divine law demands no lefs
Than human perfect righteousness:
The gofpel gives it this and more,
Ev'n divine righteousness in store.
Whate'er the righteous law requires,
The gofpel grants its whole defires.
Are law commands exceeding broad?
So is the righteousness of God.
How great foe'er the legal charge,
The gospel-payment's equal large :
No lofs by man the law can bray
When grace provides a God to pay.

The law makes gofpel-banquets sweet;
The gofpel makes the law complete:
Law-fuits to grace's storehouse draw;
Grace decks and magnifies the law.
Both law and gospel clofe combine,
To make each other's luftre fhine:
The gospel all law-breaker's fhames;
The law all gofpel-flighters damns.
The law is holy, juft, and good;
All this the gospel feals with blood,
And clears the royal law's just dues
With dearly purchas'd revenues.
The law commands me to believe;
The gofpel faving faith does give
The law injoins me to repent:
The gospel gives my tears a vent.
What in the gospel mint is coin'd,
The fame is in the law injoin'd:
Whatever gofpel-tidings teach,.
The law's authority doth reach.
Here join the law and gofpel hands,
What this me teaches that commands:
What virtuous forms the gofpel please
The fame the law doth authorife.
And thus the law-commandment feals
Whatever gofpél grace reveals:
The gofpel alfo for my good

Seals all the law-demands with blood,
The law most perfect ftill remains,
And ev'ry duty full contains:.
The gofpel its perfection fpeaks,
And therefore gives whate'er it feeks.
Next, what by law I'm bound unto,
The fame the gofpel makes me do:

What preceptively that can crave;
This effectively can ingrave.

All that by precepts Heav'n expects,
Free grace by promises effects :

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To what the law by fear may move,
To that the gospel leads by love.
To run to work, the law commands
The gospel gives me feet and bands :
The one requires that I obey;
The other does the poro'r convey.
What in the law has duty's place,
The gospel changes to a grace:
Hence legal duties therein nam'd,
Are berein gospel-graces fam'd.
The precept checks me when I ftray;
The promife holds me in the way :
That fhews my folly when I roam ;
And this moft kindly brings me home.
Law-threats and precepts both, I fee,
With gospel-promises agree;
They to the gospel are a fence,
And it to them a maintenance.
The law will justify all those
Who with the gofpel-ranfom clofe;
The gospel too approves for ay
All thofe that do the law obey.
The righteous law condemns each man
That dare reject the gospel-plan ;
The holy gospel none will fave,
On whom it won't the law ingrave.
When Chrift the tree of life I climb,
I fee both law and grace in him:
In him the law its end does gain;
In him the promife is Amèn.

The law makes grace's pafture sweet,
Grace makes the law my fav'ry meat;
Yea, fweeter than the honey-comb,
When grace and mercy brings it home.
The precepts of the law me how
What fruits of gratitude I owe;
But gofpel grace-begets the brood,
And moves me to the gratitude.
Law-terrors panfe the putrid fore;
And gospel grace applies the cure :
The one plows up the fallow-ground;
The other fows the feed around.
A rigid mafter was the law,
Demanding brick, denying straw
But when with gofpel tongue it fings,
It bids me fly, and gives me wings.

In Su M.

Both law and gospel close unite,
Are feen with more folace,
Where truth and mercy kindly meet,
In fair Immanuel's face.